In a departure from my usual inclination to yell "STFU" any time I see or hear anything from Eric Can'tor's pie hole, this time, I'd like him to ramble on as much as Clint Eastwood did last night. Cantor was kept underwraps for most of the Republican Nationalist Convention (my theory ironically enough involved a chair...and duct tape) but got out long enough to give a very helpful interview to Fortune. Fortunately , it wasn't helpful to the Romney campaign. Awwwww.
In an interview with Fortune magazine published hours before Romney addressed the Republican convention Thursday, Cantor was asked about the inconsistency of the Romney campaign attacking Obama’s Medicare reimbursement cuts, which were included in his vice presidential nominee’s budget blueprint.
OK. You would expect one of the House Republican "young guns" to be on point to talk about his candidate's policies and be sharp enough on the day that his candidate accepts the nomination to be in lock step with the party line even when it's a blatant lie. Right? I mean that's politics 101.
Oops:
“The assumption was that, um, the, the, ah, again — I probably can’t speak to that in an exact way so I better just not,” Cantor said, as quoted by Fortune.
This is almost as good as reading the tweets from the Invisible Obama chair's Twitter account ( @InvisibleObama)
In case you think you read Cant'or's remarks wrong, again:
“The assumption was that, um, the, the, ah, again — I probably can’t speak to that in an exact way so I better just not,” Cantor said, as quoted by Fortune.
Maybe I had too much wine while watching too much whine last night. Maybe I still can't believe I joked about Eastwood coming on stage in character as Walt Kowalski from Grand Torino, and then, he did. At least the version of Walt before he sacrificed himself for the greater good.
Nope. Just read it again and the words are there.
Cantor’s freeze-up underscores the risk facing the Romney campaign in continuing to level the attack, which fact-checkers and traditional journalists have taken the GOP to task for.
Good times.
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