Romney's September Slide

Washington Post ^ | 3 October 2007 | Dan Balz

[nesnah]

Sounds like he needs to find a remote grove, get on bended knee, and pray to the Father, and his son JC, to find out which of the two parties is the true party, or if they are all wrong. :-)

[JohnBovenmyer]

Your quotes are imprecise in that you are not quoting Romney, you are quoting a spokesman for him, Kevin Madden. For comments by Romney himself on this issue, in context, check out this transcript. Any non-troll here would agree with what Romney personally said there. The "quote," as a general answer to a general purpose hypothetical question, is actually reasonable. The question doesn't fit what Rush said and so thus the answer doesn't fit it either. The left wants to twist the question to fit so they try to twist the quote to fit as well. Which is the more likely? That a lib site like Huffpo would take things out of context (they offered no transcript) and twist their meaning? That those here with an agenda to support a different candidate would leap at a seemingly juicy opportunity another candidate without checking out the details as carefully as they would if they were defending their own candidate against a misguided story? Or that any of the mainstream GOP candidates are dumb enough to make ANY anti-Limbaugh comment on an "off the cuff" basis?

Rush's position on the right is well established, well enough that any non-imbecilic politician trying to position themselves on the right will hem and haw and stall and thoroughly check things out before criticizing Rush. None of Romney's detractors accuse him of being a dumb politician; their critique usually is that he's too slick a politician. This round of criticism is as believable as would be a story claiming Couric casually called Bill Clinton a serial rapist. Regardless of the truth she's never going to say that.

[redgirlinabluestate]

THE POLLS SAY OTHERWISE. Romney trending UP and closing in! Great news Mitt fans! Not only does he lead in several early primary states, but the national race is getting closer as well! Woo hoo! Practically a dead heat with the margin of error.

Poll Watch: Rasmussen Daily Tracker (10/4)Poll

Thompson - 22%
Giuliani - 20%
Romney - 17%
McCain - 11%
Huckabee - 5%

Daily tracking results are from survey interviews conducted over four days ending last night. Each update includes approximately 600-650 Likely Republican Primary Voters. Margin of sampling error for each is +/- 4

[Tarpon]

Yep, that was real foolish and shows Mitt is no principled person. If he were, he would know Rush would never say what he was being accused of saying. Rush is an ardent supporter of the troops on the radio and off.

Mitt should have given Rush unequivocal support.

Now he is a goner.

[Osage Orange]

He’s turning into John Edwards II before our very eyes.

Pretty much spot on..............!!