Romney advisers confirm it: We’re running a `just trust me’ campaign

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By Greg Sargent

I noted here yesterday that 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.

In a development that Dems are pouncing on right now, Romney advisers spelled it all out in interviews with Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79814.html?hp=t1

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.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/romney-advisers-confirm-it-were-running-a-just-trust-me-campaign/2012/08/17/6235b23e-e88d-11e1-936a-b801f1abab19_blog.html

[CJCRANE]

1. Trust me.

[Amak8]

2. Worked for Bush. Twice.

[Blue Meany]

3. I think is his modus operandi: Say nothing and bury your opponent in negative ads.

Just ask Newt.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Staggering strategy! They might as well run on 'We're the white guys!'

[yellowcanine]

5. "...don’t get pulled into a public discussion of the most unpopular parts of the Ryan plan."

Heh. Good luck with that, chumps. If you didn't want to talk about the Ryan plan, then why is he the choice for VP?

[Heather MC]

6. Obama needs a "just trust me" commercial

Then show Romney's. and Ryan's lies
And end with "just trust you no Romney Americans can't afford to "just trust you" anymore

[Arugula Latte]

7. It reminds me of religion. It's obviously all b.s., but just shut up and don't question it.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. Minimalist Mitt

Mitt is an artiste from the minimalist school. Rachel Maddow described Herman Cain as a performance artist. Mitt is a minimalist, like Samuel Beckett or Robert Bresson. Minimalist policies including no specifics on foreign policy or tax plan, healthcare plan or jobs plan. Minimalist discussion of his past at Bain, Mass., the Olympics or his wild and quirky youth. Minimalist exposure of his tax returns. The man is a temperamental artiste; give him a break.

[CJCRANE]

10. He is something of a cipher, isn't he?

Of course cipher has the meaning of both "mystery" and "zero".

He makes Shrub look like a man of substance.

[KansDem]

11. Mitt is the 4'33" of American politics...

4'33"

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. Yes - yesterday's artistic performance by Romney was reminiscent of John Cage's 4'33" of silence

when he represented the ineffable purity of nothingness as the white man writing on the white board and (at least as far as his own policies are concerned) leaving it completely blank.

[KansDem]

9. Oh, yeah? Let me get this straight: We need photo I.D. to vote because you don't trust us, right?

But we're suppose to trust you despite the lack of specifics about what you stand for?

Is that correct? Do I have that right?

Blow it out your ass!

[n2doc]

12. In a nutshell: