Romney Tries to Turn the Tables
In this week's magazine, Ron Fournier and I write about
Republican presidential candidate Mitt
Romney's counteroffensive to the flip-flop line of attack by President
Obama's campaign. Romney's team believes it can make a credible argument that
Obama is not a man of his word. It's an uphill slog, but it could diffuse some
of the sting of the attack against Romney.
So here's Exhibit A: Yesterday, the Boston Globe published a big
story that says Romney's aides purchased the computer hard drives when he
left the Massachusetts governor's office and the server was wiped clean, making
it impossible retrieve e-mail records from his administration. By 9:22 a.m.,
Romney's campaign had fired off a press releases with a headline accusing Obama
of being "obsessed with secrecy.'' It charged: "From the very
beginning, President Obama's administration has turned its back on his promises
of openness and transparency.'' Four hours later, the Romney campaign was
demanding its own set of email records -- any correspondence between Obama's
top advisers and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick -- and accusing them of
colluding on a "dirty tricks shop'' that produced the Boston Globe story.
Who you calling secretive now?
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