Unable to defend Obama on Libya . . .
. . . deputy campaign manager blames Romney instead
Yesterday, at the gym, I caught myself laughing out loud at Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter responded to questions about the Libya, saying it was campaign issue because Mitt Romney has made it one. In short, instead of responding to the questions, Cutter blamed Romney and Ryan for politicizing it.
I had thought I might blog on Miss Cutter’s deluded commentary. But, by the time I got home, I realized that I wouldn’t need to. Friends on Facebook linked a variety of posts mocking her for her commentary and demonstrating why it was so ludicrous. Bloggers were taking her to task, with one sharp blogress contending that
The Obama campaign has now succeeded in heightening interest in an issue that is a loser for them, a debacle that goes to the president’s competence and credibility. Good luck with trying to hide from it now.
One blogger observed that even after “CNN helpfully refreshes her memory with a lowlight reel of White House spin,”
[the] cornered flack falls back on her most basic impulse in a desperate situation: She blames the other party for making a big deal out of nothing. And by “nothing,” I mean the murder of the U.S. ambassador and three American consulate personnel.
Ace thinks this is a consummate Kinsleyan gaffe, revealing the Obama campaign’s survival instinct at its most rat-like in the aftermath of Benghazi.
This lady is just not good on defense. Instead of engaging her interlocutor, Cutter retreats to talking points. ”I’m seeing calls in the last few hours for OFA to fire her for these comments,” that blogger concluded, “but I hope they don’t. She helps us more than she does them.” Indeed.
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Can we please leave rats out of this? There may be rats in the bunker, but the bunker mentality is not the fault of the rats. They are just innocent by-standers looking for a way to abandon the bunker.
Comment by heliotrope — October 12, 2012 @ 9:09 am - October 12, 2012
So, the situation in Libya isn’t an issue at all, but Big Bird and contraceptives are? I think the Democrats have all come down with dementia.
Comment by Rattlesnake — October 12, 2012 @ 12:16 pm - October 12, 2012
I think they’re punch-drunk. Every blow they take has them making an ineffectual counter-response that only earns them another whack to the head. Whether it’s Romney campaign or supporters taking them to task or shit just going bad for them home and abroad, their ability to respond to anything with any degree of effectiveness is in a spiral downwards.
Cf. the “back of the drag curve” in an airplane; there’s a point where, as you slow down, your drag gets HIGHER – and if you don’t have height to trade for speed, or thrust to counteract it, you’re screwed. “Low, slow and nowhere to go,” or alternatively “Out of airspeed, altitude and ideas.”
Comment by perturbed — October 12, 2012 @ 4:13 pm - October 12, 2012
Mark Steyn piles on in today’s column.. It’s brutal.
Just when I thinks the Obamanoids can sink no further – I’m proven wrong.
Comment by SoCalRobert — October 13, 2012 @ 10:41 am - October 13, 2012
People died, Obama lied.
Comment by V the K — October 13, 2012 @ 11:51 am - October 13, 2012