Instead of trying to contort a pre-attack, unauthorized statement for electoral points, the blundering Republican presidential candidate could have transcended political games. Fred Kaplan puts one scenario forward:
Imagine if Romney had called President Obama, asked how he could be of assistance in this time of crisis, offered to appear at his side at a press conference to demonstrate that, when American lives are at risk, politics stop at the water’s edge—and then had his staff put out the word that he’d done these things, which would have made him look noble and might have made Obama look like the petty one if he’d waved away these offers.
