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Mitt Romney is running a “just trust me” campaign, in which his lack of specificity and transparency extends far beyond just his tax returns, to his bundlers and to large swaths of his policy proposals.
Intriguingly enough, Romney advisers have now come right out and confirmed the thinking behind this strategy.
Advisers say the campaign has no plans to pivot from its previous view that diving into details during a general-election race would be suicidal.
The Romney strategy is simple: Hammer away at Obama for proposing cuts to Medicare and promise, in vague, aspirational ways, to protect the program for future retirees — but don’t get pulled into a public discussion of the
most unpopular parts of the Ryan plan.
most unpopular parts of the Ryan plan.
“The nature of running a presidential campaign is that you’re communicating direction to the American people,” a Romney adviser said. “Campaigns that are about specifics, particularly in today’s environment, get tripped up.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...235b23e-e88d-11e1-936a-b801f1abab19_blog.html
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79814.html?hp=t1
