Mitt Romney’s Speech at the VFW 7/24/12

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Andrea Mitchell Dismisses Romney VFW Reception: It’s a ‘Very Conservative’ Group – –

Minutes after Mitt Romney addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Tuesday, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell appeared on MSNBC to downplay the GOP candidate’s positive reception: “…this is a conservative group….This is a very conservative foreign policy group and there’s no question that they would be predisposed, I think, more towards being in the Republican camp than the Democratic camp.”

Mitchell was responding to host Craig Melvin fretting over Romney’s tone in the speech: “…a fairly aggressive attack. I don’t know if that’s exactly what we were expecting from his address there at the VFW. A stark contrast to what we heard from President Obama yesterday before that same group.” Mitchell added: “…it did appear that at least those who were attending today were certainly much more fired up about Mitt Romney than they had been about President Obama.”

Earlier in the discussion, Mitchell referred to the speech as “a wide-ranging attack on President Obama” and predicted: “Mitt Romney is yet to be specific, and I think this is the push-back you’re going to get from the White House.”

Wrapping up the segment, Mitchell again promised an Obama campaign response would soon follow: “Romney used a lot of charges, you know, accusing the President of being an apologist, as I say, accusing the White House of leaking, and these sort of things that are not rebutted yet by the Obama team and I think you’re going to hear a lot more rebuttal from the President’s surrogates-” Melvin interjected: “I’m sure someone’s crafting an e-mail right now.” Mitchell replied: “They, in fact, already are.”