This week, for some reason, it seems to me that Romney has had some outstanding folks out speaking for him ...Sununu & Bob McDonnell in particular .... both have been ‘gloves off’. The other folks he’s had out there (Paul Ryan, Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, etc.) have been excellent - all are articulate & can explain things very well without getting bogged down in the weeds and they’ve been handing the media their heads on a platter during interviews. All the complaints about ‘no VP yet’ & how a VP would ‘spread the bandwidth’ .... well, no one VP (especially someone relatively ‘vanilla’ like Portman, even Pawlenty) can do as much as all these other articulate, intelligent, spokespeople for Romney. There needs to be an even more concerted effort to utilize and “mobilize” these folks and get them out there, IMHO.
This week, for some reason, it seems to me that Romney has had some outstanding folks out speaking for him ...Sununu & Bob McDonnell in particular .... both have been ‘gloves off’
Agree with your assessment. They are landing haymakers .
You are so right. I think Romney has encouraged the buzz about the VP slot so that these surrogates get coverage (because the press is convinced they are “auditions”).
I think that is why the Condi leak happened as well. I don’t doubt that she was originally on a list due to her foreign policy expertise, but I also know that she said many times she wouldn’t do it. However, leaking her name got her on a couple of talk shows where she nicely lambasted Obama’s foreign policy.