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Senior Romney adviser: It wasn’t necessary to thank troops at convention
Senior Romney campaign adviser Eric Fehrnstrom on Sunday defended his boss for not thanking U.S. troops or even mentioning the war in Afghanistan while accepting the Republican presidential nomination during the GOP convention on Thursday. During an interview on CNN, host Candy Crowley asked Fehrnstrom if Mitt Romney snubbed the…
Romney campaign disagrees with GOP over Obama’s healthcare ‘tax’
A rift has opened up between presidential challenger Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republican party over the question of whether a key aspect of Barack Obama’s healthcare legislation is classified as a tax. Chief justice John Roberts ruled the individual mandate to be constitutional under the federal government’s…
Krugman slams Romney advisor: Truth on Ryan’s ‘fraud’ plan is ‘anti-bipartisan’
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman once again slammed Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R) budget Sunday morning, chastising Mitt Romney’s advisor Eric Fehrnstrom for firmly standing behind it. “The plan’s a fraud,” Krugman said. “The plan is a big bunch of tax cuts, some specified spending cuts, basically for poor people,…
Adviser brags Romney told joke about firing hotel maid
A senior adviser to presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said recently that an old joke about firing a hotel maid proved that the candidate wasn’t as stiff as he seems. At a Washington Post event, chief correspondent Dan Balz asked senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom what was the “most fun…
Romney team frets that Obama is ‘too cool’ for America
A pair of Romney advisers have dreamed up a novel attack strategy against President Obama, according to a post at BuzzFeed. At a panel hosted on Saturday by the Washington Post, high ranking campaign aides Eric Fehrnstrom and Peter Flaherty said that the problem with President Obama is that he’s just…
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