I was refering to Romney’s evasive answer regarding lobbyist’s working for and contributing financially to his campaign.
I have 5-6 friends who own small businesses (<$10M), and none of them can afford nor will they support lobbyists, even through their trade organizations.
I dislike Dobb’s, but he may have been prophetic with that comment (at least in this election cycle).
The Romney=lobbyists is just the latest coordinated attack on him. This attack point started when a reporter challenged Romney on his association with a particular individual, claiming that a lobbyist was running his campaign. Romney replied to the reporter that his facts were wrong, and continued to name who were running his campaign. But once this kind of accusation gets floated, it becomes ‘truth’ and every other interviewer can use it to dig at the candidate, if digging is what the interviewer wants to do.
I thought the whole interview by Wallace was an attempt to diminish Romney - bringing up obcure facts about Massachusetts’ ranking in business development. A state crippled by bad management, and fleeing workforce before a Republican was brought in to attempt a rescue. After he got the state back into a surplus situation, they voted in another Democrat. Typical!
When did this evasive answer take place?
Romney’s evasive answer regarding lobbyist’s working for and contributing financially to his campaign.
You mischaracterize the question and the answer. The question was about “RUNNING” the campaign and Romney was quite detailed in the denial. The reporter was making news not reporting it and if he didn’t like the detailed answer, it was up to him to get more information and REPORT on it.