Mitt Romney mum on Trump fundraiser

Mitt Romney can't even say if he'll be in the same room as Donald Trump (Steve Marcus/Reuters) Mitt Romney's campaign sets a new standard for evasiveness:

A representative for Donald Trump says that the reality television star will host a $50,000-a-head fundraiser with Mitt Romney this week. But the Romney campaign isn't so sure.

The presumptive Republican presidential candidate's campaign reported Tuesday afternoon there would be no meeting with Trump this week. Minutes later, the Trump representative confirmed the event, which is expected to bring at least 50 people paying $50,000 each to the home of stock investor Martin Zweig in Manhattan's Pierre Hotel.

So Romney says there's no meeting ... yet Trump says there is an event. That sounds like a good contradiction, but any good corporate legal counsel will tell you there's a way of parsing that so that both sides are telling the truth. For example, perhaps there won't be a meeting ... but there will be a joint appearance.

Maybe Romneyland could shed some light on that? Nope:

Romney spokesman Rick Gorka said there would be 'no meeting' with Trump this week, but he refused to say whether they would appear together at the Manhattan fundraiser.

I guess it's no surprise that Mitt Romney's campaign won't even say whether he'll be in the same room as Donald Trump or not. After all, this same crew has spent the last two weeks refusing to say what Romney's position is on issue after issue, ranging from how he'd cut spending to pay for his tax cuts, to whether he'd repeal President Obama's executive order on stopping deportations of DREAM Act kids. It's cowardly and shows Romney isn't ready for the presidency, but there is one good thing you can say about Mitt Romney's refusal to talk: at least he's not lying, which is pretty much the only other thing he knows how to do.

And dodging is better than lying ... isn't it?