MSNBC Analyst: Romney will say 'anything to be President'
"Lighten up," was the message delivered by Mitt Romney when confronted at a campaign stop about his latest photo-op with a supporter holding a sign comparing Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) with Osama Bin Laden. On Monday's Countdown Keith Olbermann joked, "that's Romney, not 9/11 planner Ramzi bin Al-Shibh," as he introduced a clip showing the former Massachusetts governor being asked why he would compare any American with Osama bin Laden.
Olbermann talked with Newsweek editor and MSNBC political analyst Jonathan Alter about the somewhat cavalier manner in which Romney has been doling out barbs, especially last week when he accused Obama of supporting "sex-ed for kindergartners," a policy Romney himself supported as governor of Massachusetts.
While Alter cautioned that we could all stand to "lighten up" a bit, he stated that, "the problem with Romney campaign is that he is so intent on winning that he will literally say anything."
Alter then used the example of Romney's back to back appearances where he was bashing Mexican immigrants at one stop, and then appeared in front of a Hispanic group to ladle out praise for the Hispanic people.
This type of attack is all part and parcel of the old Republican "playbook," Alter claimed, which will be harder and harder for Republicans to avoid using if they want to be president.
The following video is from MSNBC's Countdown broadcast on July 23.
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