Why can’t (or why won’t) Mitt Romney stand up to the fringe elements of the GOP?

During a town hall meeting held earlier today by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Cleveland, Ohio a woman told Romney she believed President Barack Obama had been “operating outside the structure of our Constitution” and should be tried for treason.

Though Romney later said he disagreed with his supporter’s assertion that our president should be tried for treason, at the time the woman made her comments Mitt Romney’s response was silence. Instead of taking the opportunity to disagree with the woman (after all, that might cost him some votes) Romney instead chose silence as his response.

Instead of showing leadership and standing up to someone spouting craziness, Mitt Romney instead chose to show that he’s got a spine made of Jell-O, not a spine made of steel.

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5 thoughts on “Why can’t (or why won’t) Mitt Romney stand up to the fringe elements of the GOP?

  1. Romney is a gelatinous yes-man, a corporate chameleon whose professional decisions have been motivated by profit, not principle. He bears the unmistakable marks of the faux-man produced by corporate culture. Romney is incapable of taking the high ground because he’s made a successful career out of expediency. It’s what he knows. He isn’t a statesman.

  2. I don’t know why R-money or GOP Legislators in Wisconsin or others are such complete wimps to not stand up to such idiocy, but they sure are. And they don’t deserve a chance at power for that weakness alone, because God knows what else they’ll allow to slip by.

    This is why Romney legitimately scares me- he has no spine, and there is no depth that he won;t sink to if it gives him 1 more vote or 1 more dollar.

  3. Don’t know why he’s so worried about the far right votes, he’s already got those. It’s the votes in the middle he has to win. And that’s not the way to do it. He’s got smart people running his campaign, doesn’t he?

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