Willard “Mittens” Romney, “Mr. Etch A Sketch” thanks to his political strategist Eric Fehrnstrom’s unscripted remark, Mitt Romney Etch A Sketch Comment Quickly Becomes a Meme, is coming to Tucson to fund raise for congressional candidate Etch A Sketch McSally. Birds of a feather who will say anything to get elected. Etch-a-Sketch Election | Tucson Weekly:
McSally is presenting herself as a fundamentally different candidate than she was in 2012. In that campaign, she embraced a lot of Tea Party positions; at a debate in SaddleBrooke, she said there wasn’t much difference in ideology between her and Kelly and Antenori. “When it comes to the issues … we have very similar philosophies,” McSally said, running down a list of topics from lower taxes to protecting the Second Amendment. “We are in agreement.”
In her first campaign, McSally had a lot to learn. Asked by the Weekly a few days into her campaign if she supported Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget proposal, she responded: “Who’s Paul Ryan?” She explained that she wasn’t familiar with congressional leadership because “I just arrived here 2 ½ weeks ago after quitting my job, and I’m looking for a place to live and running for Congress.”
For all her talk about leadership, however, McSally has been notoriously slippery on her positions. After launching her campaign last year, she said she couldn’t take positions on pending legislation because she didn’t have a staff that could explain the bills to her. She’s dodged questions from national pundits—Stu Rothenberg said he “heard a lot of baloney” when he asked her about the 2013 government shutdown—as well as state-based media outlets such as the Arizona Republic, the Arizona Capitol Times and the Weekly. A KVOA News reporter tried to interview McSally after a July debate, but the candidate left before the cameras could find her.
McSally told the Weekly last year that most people didn’t care about how she would vote on pending legislation. “The only people who are pushing me on this are the media,” McSally said. “Not constituents. Not voters. Voters want to know what my philosophies are.”
When she does take a stand on issues, it’s often in areas where she appears to have reversed an earlier position.
You can be certain that Willard “Mittens” Romney’s infamous 47 percent are neither invited nor welcome to this soiree. Romney coming to $1000/ticket fundraiser in Tucson:
Arizona Congressional candidates Martha McSally and Andy Tobin are hosting a joint fundraiser breakfast in Tucson Friday.
At $1,000 a plate, the breakfast also comes with a special appearance by Mitt Romney, according to the Pima County Republican Party.
And maybe wait staff with a hidden camera/recording device. Now wouldn’t that be fun! Maybe Etch A Sketch McSally will finally say what she really thinks in an unscripted moment of candor.