# The Mittness Protection Program

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mittness-protection-program/626934>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [July 1, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mittness-protection-program/626934 "2012-07-01T19:52:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mittness-protection-program/626934/21 "2012-07-03T22:14:30Z")

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> [@Marley23](#):
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> … what? Are you saying he did this as a candidate? Because as president, he rarely made himself available to the press, and the press corps did not like it at all.

The foreign press liked him due to his availablity. Wasn’t afraid to get hit with the hard questions. If they were the voters, he’d be a shoe-in.

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**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mittness-protection-program/626934/22 "2012-07-04T03:43:42Z")

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> [@Marley23](#):
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> … what? Are you saying he did this as a candidate? Because as president, he rarely made himself available to the press, and the press corps did not like it at all.

During the 2000 primary and General campaign. Almost every indepth story about candidate Bush would mention how he’d wander to the press section of the campaign bus and shoot the breeze with the reporters, how likable he was in casual settings like that, etc, etc. It was pretty clear that it was a press strategy that worked for him.

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**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mittness-protection-program/626934/23 "2012-07-04T15:31:58Z")

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> [@Ludovic](#):
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> If they were the voters, he’d be a shoe-in.

Depends on whether or not they’d have to live in the theoretical Bush + journalist state, or merely report on it from time to time.

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**Author:** ![nogravity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9d8465/32.png) [@nogravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nogravity)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mittness-protection-program/626934/24 "2012-07-13T18:24:51Z")

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Romney’s now flip-flopped on this issue and is going to hold interviews with CBS, NBC and ABC today presumably to discuss the I didn’t work for Bain but I only said I did so I could run for Governor.

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