According to The Hill, Scott Brown refused to say whether he still backs Mitt Romney for president, despite having been asked directly several times.
Scott Brown won’t say if he still supports Romney for president
Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) refused to say whether he still supports Mitt Romney for president on Wednesday, a day after he distanced himself from Romney’s now famous “47 percent” remarks in comments first made to The Hill….
Brown hedged when asked by The Hill if Romney’s comments made him hesitant to support him. ”Listen, you’re going to have to speak to Governor Romney about what his plans are. I’m doing what I’ve been doing,” he said. When asked again if he still supported Romney’s campaign, Brown again avoided a direct answer.
Good grief. I said on the radio the other day that, what with his dodging the Republican National Convention, barely mentioning the word “Republican” any more, touting his appearances with President Obama in his advertising, and all the rest of it, Brown is seeming more and more like a man without a party – and evidence of RMG’s decreasing enthusiasm for him seems to support that position. But to refuse to commit to supporting Mitt Romney for president? Wow. That’s astonishing. I wonder if he will “clarify” his position later on today.
UPDATE: Right on schedule, Brown campaign spokesperson Alleigh Marré was asked whether Brown still backs Romney for president, and Marré apparently gave a one-word answer: “Yes.”
She then posted the following on Twitter:
Sen Brown was one of the 1st to support Romney for Pres and will continue to do so because he is the best person to put America back to work
That’s not good enough, frankly. I want to hear it from Senator Brown himself, and I’d think others would as well. After all, it was Brown himself who refused to commit to backing Romney in the interview with The Hill. If he wants to fix that, he needs to do it in person.
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9 Comments . Leave a comment below.This should be a slam-dunk for Brown. Something like: “I worked with Romney and his administration while I was in the legislature and I know him to be a good an honorable man who has the ability to turn around this economy. Though I don’t agree with him on everything, I’m proud to support him and have his support.” That was just off the top of my head, but he can credibly make it a personal endorsement rather than a policy endorsement and MA swing voters will likely understand.
No one expects Scott Brown to vote for anyone other than Romney. The fact that he won’t say it is ridiculous. Cowardly, even.
and hasn’t yet taken ownership of the votes in support of the conservative agenda, what makes anyone think he will stand by Romney in this?
Earlier today, ProgressMass hand-delivered a letter to Brown HQ urging Republican Scott Brown to live up to his self-proclaimed independence and rescind his endorsement of Mitt Romney.
Backed by RMGers, it seems:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4SJ0xR2_bQ
much support for not supporting Romney. We might be able to damage him by calling him out, but quite frankly, most Republicans aren’t thrilled about the Glove. I see lots of Scott Brown signs around my town. I don’t see any Romney signs.
to anger Republicans at Brown not supporting Romney, but rather to get people to question the connection between the two, and whether (and to what extent) Brown agrees with Romney about these core issues.
Brown’s tried to back away from them, but given how close the two have been connected, I don’t think we should let him.
Scott Brown has embraced several aspects of Mitt Romney’s world view:
Trickle down economics
Tax cuts for the wealthy or nothing
Pushing for more defense spending
Embraced the Ryan Budget
Favors employers’s control over employee’s health needs
Favors cuts in education
Favors cuts in Medicaid and Medicare
We don’t need to hear out of his mouth that he is Romney-lite. By his votes and actions he clearly is. It also stretches credulity to think he never heard Romney express what stated at a fund raiser. He fund raises with the same people and has been a regular favorite of unethical Wall St financiers.
It should be interesting to watch tomorrow night how much he wants to pretzel himself. One could feel badly for him but he has made his own bed to lie in.
Mr. Against All Odds came from “nothing” and made something of himself. He’s no moocher; no 47%’er.
Claire McClaskill skipped the convention, Rep. Barrow in GA didn’t vote for Pelosi and Heidi Heitkamp boasts of opposing Obama on drilling. It’s the nature of politics. That said those blue dogs do not have David Axelrod as their campaign manager, did not have Obama campaign for them and did not serve under Obama in an official capacity-somethingn we cant say about thr Brown-Romney relationship. In many ways Brown is cut out as the “everyday” Romney and both are Fhernstrom creations. Looks like if he is running away from his own record he is running scared.
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