Posted on 01/24/2011 7:38:42 AM PST by therightliveswithus
Mark DeMoss, a well-connected Romney supporter, released a memo recently that touted Romney as the best candidate. More notable, however, were his swipes at other Republicans who are prospective candidates for 2012.
DeMoss begins the memo, which he sent out to hundreds of major donors and pastors, outlining what he sees as needed in the upcoming campaign. He then quickly moves into listing people who "share" the same values, including Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, and Sarah Palin. At the end of the list, DeMoss states that values alone cannot win, and then proceeds to list why he believes Romney is the best choice.
Amongst the reasons why DeMoss believes Romney is the best candidate is that he isn't bad at fundraising (even though he only raised 1/7 of Obama and 2/7 of McCain) and because a "poll" stated that Romney is by far the favorite candidate of Republicans. In the same poll, Sarah Palin was number five, behind Mitt Romney, Mitch Daniels, Tim Pawlenty, and John Thune...
The most obvious attack on Palin comes at the bottom of the fourth page of the memo. DeMoss not only alludes to Palin being incompetent, but he also attacks her well-known ability to energize a conservative crowd:
"A candidate for president of the United States should be capable of becoming president, and then competent to be the president.
Those who would suggest I am placing values on the back burner will be misreading me and wrong. I am only saying that a candidate’s values alone are not enough to get my vote. For example, my pastor shares my values, but I don’t want him to be my president. (By the way, “energizing a crowd” is also not enough; Justin Bieber can do that—but I don’t want him to be president either.)"
(Excerpt) Read more at punditpress.blogspot.com ...
..and how’d that Romneycare work out?
Palin and Bieber do both have great hair.
And they’re both cuter.
Mr. DeMoss would be wise to shut his pie hole. The rigged and highly localized polls may not reflect it, but Governor Palin’s popularity far exceeds that of Romney.
DeMoss is a developer. It looks like his organization does well with big government spending, Faith-based initiaitive stuff too, so he is basically on the other side of the teat. Not to be trusted, in my estimation.
The GOP is simply not comfortable with Conservatives.
Time to make the Repubs a 3rd party.
Interesting how some people must put others down to make themselves more important.
So typical of Romney.
Justin Beiber.... was he Zack or Cody?
Why yes, yes he has. Romney is ignoring the Tea Party. While the other 19 candidates fight for Tea Party votes Romney will waltz through the early open primaries with the solid backing of moderates, independents and democrats. Unless Barry drops out there will not be much of a democrat primary, so they will flood the Republican primaries. He'll lock up the nominatiion without ever winning a clear majority and before most of the closed primary red states even vote.
Prepare to be McCained again.
We will see a lot more of this from now on, as Romney’s Ratz come out of the woodwork and trash every other possible opponent to his coronation at the RNC convention.
- JP
LLS
Come L tell us what you really think. :)
Your analysis is probably correct yet very depressing.
LLS
I wish that I could but I promised to moderate my opinions. ;-)
LLS
Romney Hitman PING!
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