Stuart Stevens, Romney’s chief strategist, is being blamed for Romney’s recent troubles. Ambers pushes back:
The truth is that President Obama’s recent polling success has more to do with President Obama, and Mitt Romney’s problems have to do with decisions that Mitt Romney made much earlier this year. If Mitt Romney loses, he will lose because he is Mitt Romney, and not because Stuart Stevens is a disorganized, charming, inconsistent half-brilliant half-crazy consultant.
But firing Wehner and Scully and McConnell? And then giving us Eastwood and that pabulum of an acceptance speech that had less punch and specificity than an ad for Depends? I’m sorry but those were, we’re told, Stevens’ decisions.
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