JEB & THE ETCH-A-SKETCH

DJ March 22, 2012

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Yesterday started out as a banner day for Mitt Romney, but ended up with a “Rick Santorum-like” catastrophe.

Earlier in the day, Romney (finally) received the coveted endorsement of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, which is a sign that the Republican establishment is ready to end the charade of a primary and coalesce around the front runner. But it was Romney’s senior campaign adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, who stole the thunder of the day.

In an interview on CNN, Fehrnstrom was asked if Romney had been forced to adopt conservative positions in the race that might hurt his standing among moderates in November’s general election.

“I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes,” Fehrnstrom responded. “It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up, and we start all over again.” HUH??

So did the Romney campaign just admit that Mitt is merely playing the role of a conservative during the primaries, but will erase all of his “fake-dom” come November and return to his moderate views? You bet they did!

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March 22, 2012 9:35 AM

Lol. Well there you have it. Another self-inflicted UNFORCED gaffe. Can't stay *on message* (whatever their message is supposed to be?) even if their lives depended on it…smh.Pitiful.

March 22, 2012 10:03 AM

A few right-wing reax….Daniel Horowitz: "Mitt Romney: The Consummate Etch A Sketch" Look, we understand that the comments emanated from a campaign official and not the candidate himself. But these comments just confirm what we’ve always known about the people surrounding him. They are all purveyors of pale pastel political positions (alliteration intended). From their perspective, this is just a game of electoral politics; an opportunity to assume power for power’s sake.Moreover, Fehrnstrom’s comments have struck such a cord with the base because they sum up Romney’s history in one image. Whenever he needs to win a particular political office, he resets the slate and pollinates it with whatever positions he ascertains to be politically expedient. […]Read: http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/03/21/mit…Redstate Commenter:I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that Romney has been winning and is going to win the nomination DESPITE not getting conservatives. Everybody knows that if it comes down to Romney… Read more »

March 22, 2012 10:12 AM

A few more right-wing reax….Yuval Levin: "The Etch-A-Sketch" If, say, yesterday, you had asked me what kind of statement by a Romney campaign person would do the most damage to Romney’s support among conservatives, and if I had then strained to imagine the stupidest thing they could possibly say, I might well have come up with something like Eric Fehrnstrom’s comment on CNN that regardless of what Romney says to conservatives during the primaries he can just “hit a reset button for the Fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch-A-Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.” But then I would have thought that no political professional—indeed, no adult who has ever been around conservative politics or thought about it much—would ever say something so patently foolish, which so thoroughly confirms every worry that every conservative has about the candidate for whom he… Read more »

March 22, 2012 10:17 AM

Lol. …a Quote for the Day….Oh for heaven's sake. THIS is the team we are sending up against Obama, the Democrats, the mainstream media, Hollywood, academia, etc. etc.???We. Are. Doomed. […] ~ NR Commenter

March 22, 2012 12:49 PM

A. Sullivan: "The Gaffe Worth A Thousand Ads"Excerpt:It really is staggering to me that the almost certain Republican nominee has run a campaign so full of cringe-inducing, gob-smacking, eye-ball popping gaffes that he should have been consigned to the Perry folder by now – and yet still manages to stagger forward. The Etch-A-Sketch analogy from his closest and most senior aide is, however, the most devastating so far.It sums up every single worry about Romney in one metaphor: that he is a machine, that he can say or stand for anything, and that, from time to time, depending on which segment of the population he is appealing to, he will simply become something completely different. Which is, of course, per Kinsley, the true definition of a gaffe. Fehrnstrom told the truth. And Etch-A-Sketches, because they can draw anything and remove anything, are also a perfect metaphor for liars, opportunists and… Read more »

March 22, 2012 1:09 PM

…more Right-wing reax…Phillip Klein: "Romney advisor says his conservatism can be erased" Excerpt:This is an incredible admission and a window into the way Romney views politics. Romney ran two races in Massachusetts as a moderate and even a self-described "progressive," before changing his positions in the run up to his first campaign for president. Just last month, he described himself as "severely conservative" at the Conservative Political Action Conference. But as Fehrnstrom statement suggests, Romney's appeals to the right are simply a matter of positioning rather than principle, something that can easily be changed once the target audience changes.If Romney's fiercest critics wanted to come up with a way to describe Romney's approach to politics, I don't think they could have come up with a better analogy than Etch A Sketch. The fact that it's coming from one of Romney's long-time aides is stunning. An even scarier thought for conservatives:… Read more »