Right Wing Watch: Romney Hit for Porn

Right Wing Watch: Romney Hit for Porn:

"Ohio’s right-wing stalwart Phil Burress is pointing to Romney’s career on the
board of Marriott hotels, where some travelers reportedly watch porn. “Marriott
is a major pornographer. And even though he may have fought it, everyone on that
board is a hypocrite for presenting themselves as family values when their
hotels offer 70 different types of hardcore pornography.”
“They have to
assume some responsibility. It's their hotels, it's their television sets,” adds
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. Perkins says, “[T]here's
some expectation that if an issue is important to you and you portray that issue
as being important now, that when you had an opportunity to address it at a very
practical level that you would have taken steps to do it.”"

I think the weakness here for Romney is going to be less about the fact that the porn is available to hotel guests and more about how he deals with this controversy. The last seven years we have had a president in the White House that has pushed the blame for events off on anyone but himself. Romney can either step up to the plate, and say that he could have done more to prevent porn from being available to guests of the motel or he can blame someone else. I think any attempt to shift the blame is going to be very transparent, and will lose him a lot of respect among voters.