Subject: Romney Campaign: Same Answers to Different Questions - ABC News
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "A. Snyder-Mackler" <[email-masked]>, "Rob Walker" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 23:13:28 -0400

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/romney-campaign-same-answers-to-different-questions/

Romney Campaign: Same Answers to Different Questions

Mitt Romney’s spokespeople have apparently run out of words.

Here’s Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg’s statement to the press earlier today about reports by the AP and Vanity Fair about Romney’s offshore accounts in Bermuda:

“President Obama’s attacks on Mitt Romney have been proven false time and again. As job growth slows, manufacturing activity stalls, and our economy continues to sputter, President Obama knows he can’t make a legitimate argument for another term in office, so instead he is trying to tear down his opponent. This is just the latest example of President Obama and his political machine saying or doing anything to distract from his abysmal record over the last four years.”

And here’s Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul responding to an interview that Obama strategist David Axelrod gave to ABC News, in which he said Romney is “the most secretive candidate” since Richard Nixon:

“President Obama’s attacks on Mitt Romney have been proven false time and again. As job growth slows, manufacturing activity stalls, and our economy continues to sputter, President Obama knows he can’t make a legitimate argument for another term in office, so instead he is trying to tear down his opponent. This is just the latest example of President Obama and his political machine saying or doing anything to distract from his abysmal record over the last four years.”

We asked the Romney campaign why they’re using the same statements and will update if they respond with another statement about their statements.

The copy-and-pasting probably won’t please conservatives like Rupert Murdoch, Jack Welch and William Kristol who have needled the campaign’s messaging process. Kristol wrote today that the Romney campaign’s ”belief that it’s about the economy and only the economy, and that they need to keep telling us stupid voters that it’s only about the economy, has gone from being an annoying tick to a dangerous self-delusion.”

And the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board said: “The Romney campaign thinks it can play it safe and coast to the White House by saying the economy stinks and it’s Mr. Obama’s fault. We’re on its email list and the main daily message from the campaign is that ‘Obama isn’t working.’ Thanks, guys, but Americans already know that.”

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