BREAKING NEWS: Mitt, Ann Romney caught being real

[Adam Griffin]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/us/politics/aides-play-down-romneys-comments-on-tax-changes-for-wealthy.html
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/16/schumer-calls-romney-comments-candor-gaffe

Senior advisers to Mitt Romney said Monday that Mr. Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, was merely tossing around ideas, not making policy announcements, when his chat with donors about some significant changes to the tax code was overheard by reporters at a fund-raiser this weekend.

Mr. Romney, for instance, remarked that Fox News was watched by “true believers,” and that the Republican Party needed to broaden its appeal to women and independents, according to NBC. And Mrs. Romney said that she “loved” the fallout generated when a Democratic political operative said that Mrs. Romney had “never worked a day in her life.”

"I'm going to take a lot of departments in Washington, and agencies, and combine them. Some eliminate, but I'm probably not going to lay out just exactly which ones are going to go," he said, according to a report by NBC News. The Department of Housing and Urban Development "might not be around later, and the Department of Education would be "a heck of a lot smaller," he said, according to The Wall Street Journal.

[Adam Griffin]

There's a lot of debate regarding the context of some things, especially what Ann Romney said. Some said she meant that she was glad she got to discuss what she did as a mother.