Yesterday, before Obama’s big economy speech, a Romney campaign bus was circling the speech venue while honking its horn. Josh Marshall sees a pattern:
Remember, this isn’t the first time something like this happened. A few weeks ago the Romney camp sent staffers to disrupt a press conference that Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod held in Boston to trash Romney. And that came just after the Romney camp darkly hinted that the Obama team had been conspiring to disrupt or block the event it held in front of the shuttered doors of Solyndra.
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The Romney folks know that pretty much nobody — not the Republican base or really anyone else — is going to be convinced that the candidate is a down-the-line conservative. But he can appeal to them by playing the bad ass card, getting in Obama’s grill, disrespecting him. Not in highly public ways and not the candidate himself — that could be damaging.
I get that campaigns do this kind of silly shit, but come on. This is the kind of behavior I would expect in a highschool class election. It’s juvenile and far beneath the presidency. I hope Romney didn’t approve this strategy, he shouldn’t tolerate it in his campaign.
But I suspect he did. He happily embraced Donald Trump, after all. Can we expect a President Romney to call up Vladimir Putin and ask to speak to Mr. I. P. Freely?
520 Chestnut 
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