Bob Schieffer To RNC’s Priebus: GOP Should Be Avoiding ‘Silly And Petty’ Campaign Tactics
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus sat down with Bob Schieffer and ended up defending the GOP against criticisms that they’ve been engaging in blatant campaign stunts. Schieffer asked Priebus why he isn’t doing more to stop the “silly and petty” side of the campaign and instead make sure it sticks to serious things and the issues people care about.
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Priebus contrasted the president’s leadership with Governor Scott Walker‘s, an executive who Priebus argued has actually kept his promises. On the other hand, he said that President Obama just loves hearing the sound of his own voice.
At this point, Schieffer jumped in to turn the tables on Priebus and the Republican party, pointing to a recent Republican protest of a David Axelrod speech in Boston and Mitt Romney taking reporters to the Solyndra plant as a kind of campaign stunt. This led Schieffer to ask Priebus just how seriously his party is taking this election.
“Isn’t that kind of silly and petty when you look at it? This campaign should be, it seems to me, about very serious things and very serious issues.”
Priebus argued that Solyndra is a serious, legitimate issue for Republicans to address, because of how well it represents “political cronyism” under Obama. And as for Axelrod’s speech, Priebus dismissed the whole thing as a stunt to make a point in Romney’s home state, and even found it amusing that “these tough guys from Chicago” were “cry[ing] about it.”
Watch the video below, courtesy of CBS:
