Surprise! Mitt Romney campaign cuts press call short after immigration questions

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The other day I posted Candidate Weather Vane, er, Mitt Romney continues to evade. It’s up to you, media, in which I noted that Willard says he wants to be president, yet he won’t go into detail about what he’d do if he got into office… probably because he knows nobody would like his policies anyway.

So instead he non-campaigns, slithers around, duck-and-covers, looks away, makes pies, and tap dances his way to November, hoping voters won’t notice and will simply vote against President Obama.

Think Progress agreed, saying, “If he’s successful in avoiding articulating policy positions, he can market himself as the ‘generic Republican’ alternative to President Obama.”

For example, Romney won’t say whether he would undo Obama’s decision to end deportations of DREAM-eligible immigrants.

That particular evasion has been spotlighted by the media, yet, per The Hill, the tap dancing continues:

Mitt Romney’s campaign cut a press call short Wednesday after reporters started asking questions about immigration.

The conference call was set up to focus on the economy and to knock President Obama’s comment that the private sector was “doing fine.” 

But reporters wanted to ask about immigration.

First, kudos to the reporters for doing their job and pressing the point.

But Romney policy director Lanhee Chen wasn’t too thrilled, saying, “The one thing we ought to focus on with immigration” was “how the economy has failed the Latino community.” But those pesky reporters kept pushing on immigration, and Team Willard cut off the call.

Think, think, what does that remind you of? Oh! I know!

Willard Romney’s positions in 2 words: “We’ll see.” Shorter version:

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  • labman57

    Romney’s comments regarding his policy positions are little more than a string of trite, superficial sound bites, totally lacking in substance and rarely supported by reality.

    As a result, Mitt is following the lead of other gutless conservative politicians — he wants debate moderators, reporters, and interviewers to be permitted to only ask the questions that he wants to be asked.

  • kimbutgar

    There’s too many soundbites for him to escape on tape.

  • majii

    Expect to hear the same thing Lanhee Chen said today in his little speech on immigration tomorrow.  No plan will be revealed, but there’ll be lots of focus on how PBO has failed to reform our immigration system.  Hispanics aren’t stupid.  Most of them know that if Romney is in the WH, immigration will not be something he’ll address, especially not the DREAM Act.  He knows that 56% of republicans disapprove of the president’s new policy recommendations, and he’d catch hell from the republicans in Congress and from the rank and filers.  If anyone wants to know what Romney would do about immigration, all one has to do is look at how neither Congress nor republicans paid much attention to overturning Roe vs Wade when they had majorities in both houses of Congress in some years in the 1990s and in the  2000s.  Like abortion, immigration only becomes a ‘major’ problem when they’re out of power.

  • Jeff Fecke

    Hard questions are hard.