How would Richard Grenell have advised Romney

[MineralMan]

on the Chinese situation with Chen, the blind dissident? We'll never know, because Romney fired him for being gay the day before. He was supposed to be Mitt Romney's foreign affairs advisor and spokesperson. But...Romney caved to pressure from the right and fired him, just before Romney got his lunch eaten by blaming Obama for not dealing with the blind Chinese dissident. Next day, it was all worked out by the Obama administration and the man and his family are coming to the US.

How can such an idiot as Romney get anyone's vote, much less enough votes to become President.

Mitt doesn't know foreign policy. Nope. Shake that Etch-a-Sketch, Mitt. Shake it good!

Obama, on the other hand, does, and has Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State. Nice job, you two!

[Slammer]

1. Competence

I've always been of the opinion that the person in charge needs to be competent in and of himself before he consults with an adviser. With a president, at a minimum, that would mean domestic and foreign policy with a good grounding in science, economics, and history.

We rarely get that so we have advisers in charge. < sigh>

Do you seriously think that Grenell would have been saying anything that you want to hear? According to what I've read, he's a confrontational conservative troll with a nasty sense of humor who also happens to be gay.

Now as for Romney being an idiot, agreed completely. Hiring someone with a history of making nasty, cutting comments is a crap shoot at best since you don't know when he's going to spout off and destroy your campaign. But to hire him while leaving his nasty Twitter comments untouched until after reporters have read them then having Mr. Grenell delete them is sheer incompetence from Team Romney. There is behavior which is professional in a campaign team and there is behavior which is unprofessional. Hiring someone without vetting them and without cleaning them up before presenting them to the public is unprofessional.

[MineralMan]

3. I don't really know anything about Grenell.

However, any decent foreign policy advisor would counsel a presidential candidate to let matters run their course before speaking out about it. Romney is clueless regarding foreign policy. That's clear. My point is that he's stupid enough that he fired the one person who might have advised him to keep his mouth shut. More evidence of incompetence for the job.

[MineralMan]

2. Maybe this is too obscure.

Mitt Romney hired Richard Grenell to be his foreign affairs advisor and spokesperson not long ago.

When the right wing found out that Grenell is gay, they pressured Romney into firing him.

That firing happened just before the whole Chen Guangcheng incident happened.

Romney sharply criticized the Obama administration for not rescuing Chen from the evil Chinese.

The next day, a plan was negotiated with the Chinese government, so that Chen and his family would be able to come to the US and he could study at International University.

Romney waffled, and tried to lie his way out of the situation.

What would Richard Grenell have advised him to do? That's the question that can't be answered due to Romney's cave to the homophobic right.

Mitt Romney is not in any way qualified to be President.