Posted on 05/08/2011 2:19:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mitt Romney sits at or near the top of almost every poll of likely Republican presidential candidates. He hasn’t worked hard for the distinction. While others swarm the early primary states, he has mostly stayed away. He’s the rare Republican hopeful not currently or recently employed by Fox News. In fact, he rarely appears on television at all. He’ll skip tonight’s Republican debate in South Carolina. And who knows? He may skip the next one, too. Romney has put the “invisible” in the invisible primary. Let’s give him his due: that looks more and more like a presidential-caliber decision.
There are two reasons why Romney is wise to make himself scarce. The first is that the Republican field has been a colossal embarrassment. The prime culprit is obviously Donald Trump, whose “birther” antics made him the laughingstock of last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and that was before the news broke of Osama bin Laden’s death, which made him look even smaller. But Trump wasn’t alone in questioning Obama’s citizenship, he was just more vocal about it. Everyone else was diminished by it, too.
Before Trump, Newt Gingrich drew a flurry of publicity, in part by attacking Obama for not pursuing military action in Libya. Once the president sent in the war planes, Gingrich attacked him for doing so, reminding everyone of why he is regarded as a joke. The early bet to embarrass Republicans, Sarah Palin, has so far proved only a minor distraction. But rushing in to fill the void are a menagerie of talk radio hosts (Rick Santorum, Herman Cain), talking heads (Gingrich), and people who talk mostly to say outrageous things (Trump, Michele Bachmann).
Having kept a dignified distance from this circus, Romney has avoided being tarnished by it....
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Staying above the fray. Did he learn that from Dole or McCain?
LLS
Yes.
Would you buy a used car from Romney??
They are pushing Romney because he is one of only two people
on the planet that can’t beat Obama.
He can get you in this baby with just $10 down, and throw in the air freshener for free!
Notice how the press comes out with these stories on the candidates they want to run as republicans. Same recycled crap they did with mCcain.
>>> They are pushing Romney because he is one of only two people
on the planet that can’t beat Obama. >>>
Not sure I buy that theory. The media does not look at Romney the way Freepers and other conservative outlets do. They think, like the establishment GOP thinks, that Romney is the one with the best chance.
I think their lust is for Huckabee, who is a sworn enemy of Mitt.
I seem to recall Rudy Giuliani stayed away and out of the fray for months and months. That strategy worked real well for president RINO, I mean Rudy. Let’s hope it is just as successful for the rest of Rudy McRomney.
Actually, I think the author meant that Romney is too chicken to get in the fight!
“Too Proud to Fight.”
“Sorry, but the Huckster and Myth are two sides of the same coin, one in Mormon flavor and the other in phony evangelistic Christian flavor.”
Yep.
Both pathetic.
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