I wish I knew how to post tweets, from Ari Shapiro:
@Ari_Shapiro
Sununu just bailed on a scheduled @NPRWeekend interview. The Romney campaign offered the CEO of Hardee's in his place
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I'll just add here TPM's list of Sununu dog whistles to go along with his outrageous theory about Colin Powell's endorsement:
– Obama is foreign. Obama doesn’t understand the “American system” because “he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia, and, frankly, when he came to the U.S. he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure.” [Fox News, 7/17/2012]
– Obama doesn’t know how to be an American. During a conference call, Sununu claimed, “The men and women all over America who have worked hard to build these businesses, their businesses, from the ground up is how our economy became the envy of the world. It is the American way. And I wish this president would learn how to be an American.” [Conference call, 7/17/2012]
– Obama is a lazy idiot. Sununu described Obama’s debate performance as “babbling,” “lazy,” and “disengaged,” and dismissed the possibility that he could do better in the future. “When you’re not that bright you can’t get better prepared.” [Fox News, 10/4/2012]
– Obama has no class, just wants to be cool. “That moment of using the B.S. word was kind of a self-defining moment for the president,” he told Sean Hannity. “No class, wants to be cool. Sacrifices the dignity of the presidency for appearing cool to a magazine that works for some of his base.” [Fox News, 10/25/2012]
Just remember this is the Romney campaign CO-CHAIR, so as far as I am concerned he speaks (or in this case doesn't speak) for the Romney campaign. Why they didn't rein him in earlier is a mystery, but then again maybe they think this works and now he took it a step too far.