Easy as that. These guys are pros at saying stuff like that. He didn’t do it. He doesn’t believe in it. He ain’t on the team he’s a RINO.
I'd be sincerely interested in seeing if you'd have said that, if you had been in that interview.
That statement is hardly a controversial one. PLease. It’s as mild as a damp dishrag.
And besides, if what you are implying is that he couldn’t even say such a limpwristed reply because he doesn’t have the balls to satnd up for someone saying the plain uncouched truth, then perhaps the dainty congressman shouldn’t be going on the morning talk shows with the big boys, and perhaps if he isn’t going to fight for core principles or at least verbally defend them, maybe we need a stronger person in that chair.