Comments by his (Romney's) Mr. Fehrnstrom was asked if the campaign worried that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich “might force the governor to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election.”

To which Mr. Ferhnstrom responded: “Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again.”

thephan wrote:

Comments by his (Romney's) Mr. Fehrnstrom was asked if the campaign worried that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich “might force the governor to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election.”

To which Mr. Ferhnstrom responded: “Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again.”

Now we know why Romney says the stupid things he says.

jerseyhoya wrote:The Etch a Sketch Campaign - Thought this was a good read

“He was clearly talking about the campaign – not the candidate’s positions,” she (Gail Gitcho) said in an email, of Fehrnstrom’s comment. “We aren’t surprised that our opponents are hysterical over it. They would rather talk about anything other than their own records.”

thephan wrote:

“He was clearly talking about the campaign – not the candidate’s positions,” she (Gail Gitcho) said in an email, of Fehrnstrom’s comment. “We aren’t surprised that our opponents are hysterical over it. They would rather talk about anything other than their own records.”

In itself there is an interesting attempt to separate campaign from candidate. I do not really comprehend how that is possible as one must reflect the other. If this deflection is to simply say that the campaign shifts to Republican versus Democrat, then the comment is insulting stupid. If there is a reset on the campaign, is the candidate not doing specifically what his opponents are crowing about? How soon does Fehrnstrom find his freedom from the campaign never to work in this field again?

I did like the two trailing sentences as I was thinking about this just this morning. There are two of the four remaining in the race who have been voted out of office and have their own likability and image problems.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:I'm a little embarrassed for all of us that this Etch-a-Sketch thing is a deal at all

At the breakfast, held in the Capitol Hill Hyatt, 88-year-old Rep. Ralph Hall (R-Tex.) told Romney that he "never met a Mormon I didn't like" and noted that the teetotalers "give me those airplane bottles of booze when we're on a flight." Romney laughed good-naturedly with the oldest House member.

jerseyhoya wrote:I can't tell if Monkeyboy is serious about the dog stuff or if he's been doing a liberal version of Colbert's character type thing on it

Monkeyboy wrote:Who the hell straps their family pet to the roof of their car on a long trip?

swishnicholson wrote:Hmmm, I may have to reconsider my own support...

Karl Rove endorses Obama in WSJ Op-Ed

swishnicholson wrote:Hmmm, I may have to reconsider my own support...

Karl Rove endorses Obama in WSJ Op-Ed

swishnicholson wrote:it's interesting that by reading the above comments one can conclude that anywhere from all to none of us among myself, lethal and dr. smooth actually read the article I linked.