"National Democrats looking to portray Mitt Romney as a panderer think they’ve found the Holy Grail in a quote from Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom today about how his candidate plans to handle the general election.%% Fehrnstrom was asked on CNN Wednesday whether he was concerned that Romney’s prolonged fight with Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum would force him to “tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election.”
“Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign,” Fehrnstrom responded. “Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch-A-Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again.”
Democrats trumpeted the interview as an outright admission that Romney plans to abandon his more conservative positions as soon as the primary ends and adopt the moderate persona that brought him to prominence as governor of Massachusetts.
“We’ve been saying it for months — and Mitt Romney has had a reputation for it for years: He’ll say or do anything to get elected - absolutely anything,” DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse wrote in an e-mail. “Now his own top adviser has confirmed that Mitt Romney has absolutely no core and will in fact say anything to get elected.”
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