Top Romney Adviser Says Romney Can Change His Positions After The Primaries: ‘It’s Almost Like An Etch A Sketch’

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Appearing on CNN this morning, Romney Communications Director Eric Fehrnstrom was asked if he’s concerned that Romney may alienate general election voters with some of the hard-right positions he’s taken during the primary to appeal to conservatives. Fehrnstrom brushed this concern off:

HOST: Is there a concern that Santorum and Gingrich might force the governor to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election.

FEHRNSTROM: Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/03/21/448804/eric-fehrnstrom-etch-a-sketch/?mobile=nc

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Like it or not, the sad thing is that with the way elections are decided in the US, he's probably right.

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Like it or not, the sad thing is that with the way elections are decided in the US, he's probably right.

Yup.

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So, Romney will just be a slightly whiter version of our current President?

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No different from Gingrich.

The only consistent candidate is Santorum, the religious zealot.

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Romney has an amazing ability to be able to assume virtually any position and do whatever those who pay him want him to do! Now, what is it that people like this are called? Other than republican I mean!

Romney, the political Etch-a-Sketch! What a great slogan!