Via Politico we learn why the Romney people don't like doing media - because their candidate is a little unhinged.
ARTICLE OF THE DAY -- JON WARD in Huffington magazine
(available today on iPad; article posts Monday), “The One-Termer?
Thinking Bold Thoughts With Team Romney”: “Matt Rhoades is guarded and
intense … [W]hen I met him in mid-July, in a bohemian coffee shop in
Boston’s North End, the 37-year-old manager of Mitt Romney’s campaign
was hesitant to speculate about what the Republican candidate would do
as president, and how. … But when I asked Rhoades … what Romney might do
with the budget and entitlement reform plans Ryan had already outlined,
Rhoades’ eyes lit up. He gave me a name: James Polk. … Rhoades and the
rest of the members of Romney’s inner circle think a Romney presidency
could look much like the White House tenure of the 11th U.S. president.
“Polk, who served from 1845 to 1849, presided over the expansion of the
U.S. into a coast-to-coast nation, annexing Texas and winning the
Mexican-American war for territories that also included New Mexico and
California. He reduced trade barriers and strengthened the Treasury
system. And he was a one-term president. Polk is an allegory for
Rhoades: He did great things, and then exited the scene, and few
remember him. That, Rhoades suggested, could be Romney’s legacy as well.
… Multiple senior Romney advisers assured me that they had had
conversations with the candidate in which he conveyed a depth of
conviction about the need to try to enact something like Ryan’s
controversial budget and entitlement reforms. Romney, they said, was willing to count the cost politically in order to achieve it.”
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