Republicans are hammering Democrats for stammering — a bit of election-year bullying that the recipients think is a little, well, uh, childish.
In a series of emails to reporters over the last couple of days, the Republican National Committee has hit White House spokesman Jay Carney and Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter for their delivery as much as their substance on questions involving Solyndra and Bain Capital.
Asked on Tuesday how the president’s view of Solyndra — that some investments pan out and others don’t — differs from Mitt Romney’s defense of his time as the chief of Bain, Carney said: “Look … there, there, there is the … the … difference in that, your overall view of what … huh, your responsibilities are as president and what your view of the economic future is,” according to a transcript sent out by the RNC.
Cutter, asked a similar question Wednesday by Chuck Todd on MSNBC’s “Morning Rundown,” gave what the RNC termed an “agonizing 104 second answer” that prompted Republicans to send around both a video link and a full transcript of her response.
Republicans labeled both Carney and Cutter “tongue-tied.”
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