In Unusual Move, Romney Bars Reporters At Fundraiser In Israel

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Saturday July 28, 2012 · 1:57 PM PDT

2012/07/28 · 13:57

What will Romney be saying that he doesn't want Americans at home to hear? Secret plans for war with Iran? Disparaging comments about the president while overseas? Support for Bush era personnel and agendas the American public dislike? More racist comments from his advisers?

TEL AVIV, Israel — U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney plans to raise campaign money in private while in Israel, so what he tells wealthy American supporters abroad will be kept quiet from voters at home.
Romney's campaign is barring reporters from a fundraiser at Jerusalem's King David Hotel and not saying why. At U.S. events, Romney's remarks to donors in communal spaces such as hotels are typically public.

Romney sometimes has given donors more policy specifics than he includes in his standard campaign speeches. At a fundraiser this spring in Florida, for example, he offered new details on how he might cut government and which deductions he might eliminate as part of his tax plan.
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Some of Romney's wealthiest U.S. supporters plan to attend Monday's fundraiser. They include casino mogul Sheldon Adelson...

What is Romney secretly promising this crowd of largely American donors while overseas? After all, that's what people do at fundraisers, they make promises to donors as to what their term will try to accomplish.

Americans will never know, unless someone in attendance spills the beans.

Given Romney's foreign policy team (70% Bush's NeoCon crew, who's central theme is to bomb Iran) my guess is that Romney is promising a new war with Iran, but as we all know, this is something he can't discuss here at home now that the primary is over and he needs to appeal to rational Americans.

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