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In response to
"Mitt Romney didn't really want to fire Richard Grenell -- (link)"
by
pixitude
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My take on this is that Romney (or his team) was just trying to control the conversation.
Posted by
Fuzzy (aka mrfuzzy)
May 4 '12, 17:07
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And they bungled it massively.
Presidential politics has come down to a matter of who can control the conversation better. If you can keep the discussion on your topics of choice better than the other guy can -- you win.
In this case, they had a situation where some nutjobs were starting to move the conversation away from what Romney wanted it to be. His (or his team's) solution was to muzzle Grenell. I believe their thinking was that if Grenell stayed out of the spotlight for a few days, then the conversation would move away from him and back to what they wanted to discuss. This was obviously a bad call in hindsight.
I think Grenell is completely justified in his response. And unfortunately for Romney, it means that the conversation has now moved completely away from the topics he wants to discuss.
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