Who's his daddy?
by digby
Everyone supposedly wonders how Mitt would deal with the religious right. Well, here you go:
Mitt Romney hired Richard Grenell to work on foreign policy, not social issues, but Christian activists freaked out over his hiring in April because Grenell is gay. Well, Grenell has quit Romney's campaign, The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin reported Tuesday. Rubin reports Grenell decided to quit "after being kept under wraps during a time when national security issues, including the president’s ad concerning Osama bin Laden, had emerged front and center in the campaign." Grenell told Rubin that his "ability to speak clearly and forcefully on the issues has been greatly diminished by the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign." But the discussion of personal issues was an intra-party fight, not one with Democrats or their supporters.
Actually Democrats were plenty angry at Grenell for his creepy sexist tweeting, but nobody in the Romney camp cared about that. They decided to muzzle him because the Christian Right was having a fit.
If you want a glimpse of the dynamic that would govern a Romney administration, I think you just got one. The guy worked for John Bolton. It's not like they couldn't have made a case for him.
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