Romney Criticizes Obama but Seizes On Anonymous Quotes Too

[maddezmom]

Mitt Romney and his campaign today have been chiding the Obama forces for “adopting the comments made by people who are unnamed.” But the record shows the presumptive GOP presidential nominee regularly engages in the practice, too.

Romney, in an interview with NBC News, rebuked Democrats for seizing on comments that criticized President Obama made anonymously by two of Romney’s advisers to the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph. One adviser is quoted as saying Obama doesn’t fully appreciate “Anglo-Saxon heritage.” (More HERE.)

“I’m generally not enthusiastic about — adopting the comments made by people who are unnamed,” Romney told NBC.

Earlier in the day, Romney spokesman Ryan Williams used stronger language. He said Vice President Joe Biden had “diminished” the nation’s highest office by criticizing Romney over “an anonymous and false quote from a foreign newspaper to prop up their flailing campaign.”

But Romney himself — and his wife, Ann — regularly blast Obama for a quote in an August 2011 Politico story attributed to a “prominent Democratic strategist aligned with the White House.” The anonymous strategist is quoted as saying Obama’s strategy is to “kill Romney.”

more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/romney-criticizes-obama-but-uses-anonymous-quotes-too/

[RedStateLiberal]

1. Do as I say and not as I do.

Typical Rethug hypocrite.

[gollygee]

2. He needs to stop hiding behind his advisors and say what he has to say

It's very easy to have someone tell the press something anonymously and then refuse to discuss it. If no one discusses it, then it stands, and HELL NO.