Mitt Romney Confronts An AP Reporter On Lobbyists

Ok. Many liberals will not like this, but at first presidential candidate Mitt Romney did not "clash" with a reporter as Bill Clinton did. He calmly answered the question -- at first. At first, I thought the reporter came off as a confrontational jerk who seemed to have an axe to grind, and he was doing just that.

The dust-up started as Romney was stating that Lobbyists were not in charge of his campaign. The AP reporter pointed to an advisor to the campaign who's a lobbyist and tried to "fit" the role of advisor into that of campaign head.

Does not work.

But when I saw the complete video, I came away with a different view because after the initial press conference, Romney came back and seemed to confront the reporter, who really was doing a job of asking a question regarding being honest and not giving the idea that lobbyists have no involvement at all. What Mitt should have done is just said "You're right, I mispoke about that; he's an advisor and even though he is, he's also is a lobbyist but has no "control roll" in my campaign."

But Mitt didn't do that.