2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRomney Tape Leaves Senate GOP Leaders Speechless
Senate Republican leaders fled their weekly press conference after delivering prepared remarks Wednesday without taking a single question from reporters, who were eagerly seeking their thoughts on their presidential nominees newly unearthed remarks dismissing nearly half of American voters.
Although some of the leadership members addressed journalists in separate huddles as they walked away, the unusual display is symptomatic of the partys nervousness over Romneys comments from a private fundraiser deriding the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income taxes.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) excused himself in the middle of the availability. The rest Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Sens. John Thune (R-SD), Roy Blunt (R-MO) and John Barrasso (R-WY) made no mention of Romney or the race in their comments and instead lamented Senate dysfunctionality and attacked Democratic policies.
When reporters ran after them to ask about Romneys comments, they dodged.
First of all Im not going to get critical your question implies theres some really big flaw in the way hes running the campaign, Kyl said, when asked whether the GOP nominee has harmed his and Republicans hopes in November.
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avebury
(10,952 posts)yodermon
(6,143 posts)i.e what a disgrace it is that half the country isn't paying any taxes, those damn freeloaders
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Outsourced his ads to Netanyahoo's crew. Gave up on Israel. Threw his wife and grandfather under the bus. Called veterans and those in combat moochers who don't pay taxes. Toured chinese factories for ideas on how to run labor camps. Gave advice to Iran and terrorists.
All in 25 minutes of truth.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)Apologies to weasels.