When you get past the specifics

This is embarrassing.

Holy word salad, Batman! If this is an example of the people who are advising Mitt Romney in his upcoming debates with President Obama than Mitt Romney is walking into a fistfight with Popeye armed with a can of spinach.

Watch Mitt Romney's Senior Adviser Tara Wall do her best Sarah Palin impersonation for three full minutes, as a simple question from MSNBC host Chris Jansing asking for just one specific example of which tax loopholes Romney would close reduces Tara Wall into a babbling, incoherent mess of platitudes and memorized talking points.

Now remember, this is one of the people who will be advising Mitt Romney on his upcoming debate with President Barack Obama, and she can't even handle a simple policy question. Tara Wall could hardly manage three minutes of debate on MSNBC over a simple policy question and we are supposed to believe that Tara Wall and her friends are going to help Romney hold his own against President Obama for a full hour?

Here's the video tape. But remember, what has been watched can not be unwatched.



Here's a short transcript, courtesy of ThinkProgress.org



JANSING: What are the loopholes you would close? Will you tell the American people how you’re going to to this better place that you say they have? WALL: Well, again, the campaign has laid out a number of specifics relative to the principles that will guide the policies of a Romney-Ryan ticket. [...] Again, the specification include policies that are pro-growth in nature, that reduce the deficit, that reduce the burden on taxpayers and small businesses, small businesses number one have been hit hard by a number of regulations that have stifled growth and job creation. And so number one, those are some of the things you have to start with. JANSING: Well, with all due respect, a pro-growth policy is not specific. WALL: The other part of that is energy independence. That’s an approach to energy independence that will create millions of jobs. There is a target of 12 million jobs by the Romney-Ryan target. Relative to those loopholes that you mention, I agree that Congressman Ryan pointed out (that) have to be put out in a public debate. But I think, again, we have to look at the overall principles that are going to drive the policies and not ram through policy as we saw with Obamacare.

Blathering about "energy independence" isn't an answer, not even close. Tara Wall manages to sputter and say nothing until pressed for an answer, and even then she fails miserably. And these are the people advising Mitt Romney on how to handle President Obama in the upcoming, nationally televised Presidential debates. At least in 2012 when the blind lead the blind they both have access to the "good parts" of Obama's health care reform law.

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