Well it's a good thing that Romney evidently surrounds himself with smart people because to do have done so would be a major campaign blunder. A blunder that the Obama campaign was probably hoping he'd make.
Here's how it would have went down if Romney decided to pop into a Chick-Fil-A with his huge entourage of press, handlers and secret-service agents to ceremoniously chow down on a fried chicken sandwich.
It would have knocked Obama's woes off the front pages for a few days (i.e. 8.3% unemployment) and would have provided Obama fodder for campaign attack ads.
For example, an Obama ad would show Romney chomping down on his sandwich while an ominous voice in the background solemnly intones Romney's support for homosexual marriage back when he was running for office in Massachusetts. So Romney would have been exposed as a hypocrite for "cashing in" politically on the Chick-Fil-A phenomenon when he is on record as previously supporting homosexuals.
Sure, Romney could have tried to say that he was supporting the owner's right to free speech and not necessarily his position on homosexual marriage but that would have done no good at all and everybody here is smart enough to know that. So by stating that this controversy "plays no part in his campaign" is a gutsy, savvy move on Romney's part as he denies the Obama campaign and all the yakking heads in the media a huge opportunity to embarrass and make sport of him.
For those who feel strongly about the homosexual marriage issue, let's focus on electing more Tea Party people like Cruz and West to congress and in state legislatures. Get Tea Party in control of the legislatures and homosexual marriage will have no chance of passage no matter who our president is and no matter what our president thinks of homosexual marriage.
As for those here who continue to post photos of Sarah Palin at the Chick-Fil-A, in an obvious attempt to shame Romney, well Sarah Palin, as much as I like her, does not have the responsibility that Romney has for unseating Obama. She obviously has time to go out for chicken dinners and good for her. It could have been her that was running against Obama and we wouldn't even be talking about Romney, but she made her choices and now she has plenty of time for peach shakes and chicken sandwiches. So let her hang out at the Chick-Fil-A and let Romney focus on beating the sitting president who is nothing less than a domestic enemy of the United States of America.
What BS to compare Mittens, who isn’t even the nominee yet, to Sarah Palin who has been on the national stage for four years and raises money for conservatives and helps them win their elections by endorsing them.
Half of the country is standing in front of Dairy Queen with ice cream dripping down the fronts of their shirts right now..and they barely know who Mitt Romney is...
Entourage, press, cameras. let’s save that for someone who might really get it.
If Mittens wanted to stop at Chick this week, he could have done so,..quietly and without fanfare.
Instead he says that it isn’t part of his campaign.
A more appropriate response would have been to repeat that he stops there all the time!!! followed by a full shout out for Cathy and his principles.
What’s that I hear... More crickets?
Well said.
Hope others can see through the noise to understand your well reasoned points.