One risk that Mitt Romney (R) — or any candidate for president — faces
as he rapidly builds a presidential campaign geared towards the general
election is the close scrutiny paid to staff selections. Nowhere is
this more evident than in the backlash “from the left and right” against
Romney’s selection of Richard Grenell as a national security and
foreign policy adviser, reports the Washington Post.
“Grenell,
who spent seven years at the United Nations heading the communications
department for the U.S. mission, has had to scrub snarky tweets aimed at
women — particularly Democrats and liberals — and the media, while the
Romney campaign has had to fend off criticism from social conservatives
who object to Grenell’s appointment because he is gay.”