This is a wise conversational tactic. It answers the Blitz question and says nothing. The functionality or lack thereof of answering the question is to move the convo forward, not to carve in stone a policy statement with Wolfy.
If the Alinsky tactic is to freeze something and then attack it, then if you say this is “straddling the issue” then there is no possible win. And the candidate being forced to declare something with certainty that he cannot guarantee in front of a spitball like Blitzer means that he not only has to pay a price later, but he ignites yet again a stupid unproductive fight among those who want him to adhere to an impossible standard and curse him when he doesn’t and those who recognize this is nothing but blather. Meanwhile, the same thing coming from a liberal is nothing but blather.
Why can’t people see this? Always complaining that libs get away with lying but Republicans must be held to a higher standard and set themselves up as fixed targets. It perpetuates exactly the thing you complain about.
Hillary has said she is in favor of increasing the minimum wage. Has she screwed herself by making herself a “fixed target”?
As long as we have bumbling fools who can’t articulate a viable defense for their position and dont want to make themselves a “fixed target” we will keep lurching leftward.
Is this going to be your defense of every liberal position he takes? “Dont worry. He is just lying about what he thinks because he is scared to defend it.”