Romney Surrogates Killing the Moderator

     When bad news hits, sometimes it's tempting to kill the messenger-it's a deflection that allows you to live in denial at least for a little while.

      The Romney team and friends is now getting into a grudge match against Candy Crowley. She shouldn't have pointed out that the President did call Benghazi a terrorist attack at the Rose Garden!

      If she hadn't interjected, Romney would have gotten away with another whopper:

      "Republicans are not happy with Candy Crowley’s mid-debate fact check of Mitt Romney’s Libya claims, with many prominent conservatives claiming — inaccurately — that Crowley herself admitted she was wrong."

      "Crowley injected herself into a Libya exchange after Romney pressed Obama over whether he used the phrase “acts of terror” on September 12 to describe the Libya murders the night before.

      “You said in the Rose Garden, the day after the attack, it was an act of terror?” Romney said.
After Obama urged him to “get the transcript,” Crowley cut in: “He did in fact, sir, call it an act of terror.”

      "The transcript, from Obama’s Sept. 12 speech in the Rose Garden: “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.” He used the same phrase the next day, explicitly referring to the Benghazi attack."

      http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/team-romney-gets-bogged-down-in-candy-crowley-fight.php?ref=fpa

       While I wasn't sure myself of Crowley's ambitions coming into the debate, in retrospect it is nice to have someone from the media who does more than act like a simple taker of the minutes.

        'You say this. He says that. Let's make like David Brooks and split it down the middle."

        The Romney team had myriad complaints after:

        "Romney supporters after the debate were not happy with the exchange. John Sununu told TPM in the spin room that Obama “said terror will not dissuade us, he did not say it was an act of terrorism.” Others made similar arguments, with NRO’s Jim Geraghty also suggesting the line was ambiguous."

       “What I know is she was wrong,” Romney adviser Ed Gillespie told TPM.

       If Obama's comments were ambiguous-though I don't find them so-how can you so categorically give them the most uncharitable interpretation? How can Gillepsie "know she's wrong?"

       It's amazing that what was meant to make the President uncomfortable has made the Romney team so uncomfortable.