Mitt Romney’s main strategy in the GOP primaries of 2012 is to hammer Sarah Palin as “a quitter”.

Yesterday, I was interviewed by a reporter for CBS, for a story on the diverse groups of people supporting Sarah Palin online. The reporter authored a book on Palin last year, after being embedded with her vice presidential campaign, following a stint covering Mittens Romney. I can’t imagine how many cucumbers-and-mayonnaise sandwiches this guy had to eat on the Romney Express (to nowhere), but I gave him the same kind of awed respect I grant anyone who’s ever spent more than half an hour with Tim Pawlenty — and didn’t succumb to T-Paw induced narcolepsy.

We (the reporter and I, not Tim Pawlenty or Mittens) met up at Nookie’s Tree in Boystown and talked about Sarah Palin over coffee. Doing enough of these interviews over the course of the last few years, and being interviewed by some great people like Andrea Shea King and Tammy Bruce, I can usually spot the story the reporter wants to tell by the way his questions unfold and what he keeps coming back to whenever I take the conversation on one of my tangents about how terrible the current administration is. The story CBS wants to do on Palin’s supporters appears to be something in the realm of “an unthinking, personal, and emotional defense of a woman they love”. It’s not a negative story, and the reporter doesn’t seem like the kind who would write a hit piece, on either Palin herself or on me as a Palin-supporter, but the impression I got from him was that he’s projecting the Left’s Obama cult of personality onto Palin supporters — when nothing could be further from the truth.

Most of the questions asked of me were in the vein of how I felt whenever Palin was attacked, and what makes me defend her.

I tried to like Romney, I really did, but he could not win me over during the 2008 debates. If you closed your eyes and just listen to his answers during the 2008 debates he did not sound like the Reagan Conservative I am looking for.
But what really did it, was at the Iowa Debate, the famous “Show of Hands on Climate Change” question.

Q: “Show of hands - How many of you believe Climate Change is a serious threat, and caused by human activity?”

Before Fred saved their butts with his “we are not playing hands” response, Romney, Rudy, McCain, and I think Huckabee all had their hands up. And watch Romney after Fred’s brave interruption, clap his hands and say “I’m with that guy”. A little too late for that, he was caught with his hand up. That’s not leadership, that’s, me too, me too.
Then after, you here the most idiotic rambling and soft peddling from just about all of the GOP candidates until it was time to move on to the next question. As a Republican, I was embarrassed. Not one of them looked like a Leader on the issue, except for Fred but they wouldn’t let him answer. Not one of them had the brass ones to tell the moderator, “look, there is not one bit of solid evidence that Man is causing any sort of climate change, and were not going to throw billions and billions of dollars at something we don’t even know we can fight”. Now an answer like that on National TV would have had me and Republicans all over saying YES!, and probably would of sparked our interest in the candidate saying it. But it didn’t happen.

In case you forgot, here is that question on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAYtC_jcK1U

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