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Romney: Sarah Palin’s the ‘best thing’ that could happen to me (Whistling past the graveyard?)
CNN ^ | June 6, 2011 | Rebecca Stewart

Posted on 06/06/2011 6:22:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

For any other candidate, raining on a presidential announcement parade would be seen as sabotage. Not former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

The 2012 presidential candidate told CNN’s Piers Morgan Monday that he wasn’t offended when former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appeared in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire on the same day he was set to formally announce his intention to seek the 2012 GOP nomination for president.

In fact, though Romney shared his plans one week in advance and Palin insisted on keeping the destination of her top-secret bus tour under wraps until the day before her New Hampshire appearance, Romney insisted that the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee “really didn’t ruin my day.”

“In a lot of respects it’s the best thing that could happen to me,” he said on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight.”

“Right now, your greatest enemy is overexposure. People get tired of seeing the same person day in and day out.”

And Romney, who also sought the GOP nomination in 2008, had nothing but kind words for Palin, who’s still batting around the will-she-or-won’t-she question....

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: New Hampshire; Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Sneaky Romney! I wouldnt trust him.


81 posted on 06/06/2011 11:20:59 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Sign of a good, decent FREEPER: Promoting your own GOP candidate & not disrupting threads of others')
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To: Sarah Barracuda
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LOL~~~~!!!!

82 posted on 06/06/2011 11:22:54 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: ansel12

very true.


83 posted on 06/06/2011 11:39:29 PM PDT by truthfreedom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

84 posted on 06/07/2011 12:39:22 AM PDT by mirkwood (Palin 12)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whether she is running or not, Sarah Palin’s appearance got one message through loud and clear: NOT ROMNEY!


85 posted on 06/07/2011 7:56:04 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Governor Romney, why would any conservative vote for the author of the beta version of ObamaCare?)
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