Anne Romney "praise the Lord and no more ammunition."

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/campaigning-on-vagueness.html

Campaigning On Vagueness

18 Aug 2012 08:35 AM
by Gwynn Guilford

Greg Sargent rants about the Romney-Ryan's deliberate dodging of policy specifics:

[I]n what appear to be strategic leaks designed to mollify Republicans worried about the campaign’s lack of specificity, Romney advisers are explicitly confirming that all of this is part of a grand strategy to only signal general direction to the American people. It’s a guiding idea that specifics are a political peril to be avoided. The campaign thinks sharing details about what he’d actually do as president would be politically suicidal. As Steve Benen asks: “what does it say about the merit of Romney’s policy agenda if voters are likely to recoil if they heard the whole truth?”

Peggy Noonan thinks that, because of Ryan's involvement, keeping it vague won't work:

Ryan is associated with the word cutting. Republicans will have to make people believe the word to associate with him is "saving," that the Romney-Ryan ticket wants to save entitlement programs that aren't sustainable, that will in time collapse unless we impose ruinous taxes or continue with ruinous deficits. Republicans have just a few weeks to get across—on the stump, at the conventions—that they're trying to save Medicare, not kill it, that they're the lifeguard, not the shark.



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