Tim Russert: Governor Romney, you’ve changed positions on every issue under the sun. Every issue.
Mitt Romney: Nu-uh. Everything’s different now. Here’s a bunch of blather to satisfy you.
Has Russert ever allowed an interviewee to have more blather, ever?
I can’t wait to see the Hewitting on this, for sure.
UPDATE: Shocker. Mitt Romney lied about being endorsed by the NRA in 2002.
“I just talked about, about guns. I told you what my position was, and what I, what I did as governor; the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA.”
The problem?
He was never endorsed by the NRA, and didn’t have their official support during his 2002 gubernatorial campaign. The NRA declined to endorse in that race, as was acknowledged by Romney’s spokesman this morning.
“The NRA did not endorse in the 2002 campaign,” said spokesman Kevin Madden, when asked about Romney’s comments. “Mitt Romney as a candidate received a respectable B grade rating from the NRA, and when he was governor he had the support of the NRA and the Gun Owners Action League in relaxing some of the state’s burdensome licensing regulations.”
What Madden didn’t say was that Romney’s Democratic opponent in the governor’s race, Shannon O’Brien, was given a more than respectable “A” grade by the NRA, according to its website.
