Romney makes midcourse communications correction
(CBS News) In a sign that Mitt Romney's campaign team plans to adjust following growing criticism from fellow Republicans, CBS News has learned that Romney campaign senior adviser Kevin Madden will soon be taking on a larger and more visible role within the campaign.
Sources tell CBS News that Madden will be spending more time on the road with Romney and is likely to become a more public presence as a TV spokesperson for the candidate. He will hit the road with Romney next week, following Romney's New Hampshire vacation.
This move to make Madden a more public face of the campaign comes a week after fellow senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom committed a messaging misstep, which resulted in Romney having to walk back those comments.
Fehrnstrom said in an interview on MSNBC last week that Romney believed the individual mandate in President Obama's health care law was a "penalty", not a "tax," contrary to the line Republicans had taken after the Supreme Court upheld the law. As a result, Romney sat down with CBS News' Jan Crawford in the middle of his Fourth of July vacation to state unequivocally that he believes the mandate is a "tax."
Romney campaign sources stress this isn't a campaign shakeup but it's a move to give Madden more "bandwidth and additional responsibilities."
Madden has a long history with Romney, having worked very closely with him as his national press secretary during Romney's 2008 presidential bid.
Meantime, the campaign is looking ahead and suggests that the economy will be topic number one moving forward.
"Today's job numbers will set the frame for the rest of the campaign," said one adviser. "People are just starting to tune in and put their barbecue sets away."
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No of course not, watch the George Clooney movie Ides of March about politics. It is a good portrait of political hardball with who is in and who is out.
So, nobody pulls Mitt Romney's strings--he's his own man. However, this is not the case for Obama. He is simply a smooth talker that was picked for that reason by George Soros and his evil friends to literally overthrow our capitalist system of government and replace it with socialism/marxism/communism...whatever you want to call it. Obama WANTS people to be dependent on the government...then he and his cronies can do whatever they want with no questions.
I find it laughable you make the statement you never really know what Mitt Romney stands for...how laughable because he DOES tell the truth. Mitt Romney wants people to know him and to be successful and thrive in our great country. Mitt Romney is transparent, only the sheep that have been following Obama and his lies don't recognize the truth when they hear it now. It is really frightening as Obama is attempting to dumb down America and he is successful with his sheep and the ignorant people that listen to comedians that are making jokes...and ultimately the sheep believe the jokes.
I pray to God that enough people on the left will comes to their senses and get rid of Obama...give him a new address. If he were to remain in the White House, we would not be able to recognize this country four years from now. We will be another version of a socialist European country. Do your homework before you throw around your stupid, trite phrases! You sound as out of touch as any Obama supporter would ever hope to be! Do your homework!
In other words.....mitt roMONEY likes to fire people, along with his outsourcing of jobs to China and India.