Posted on 11/09/2008 3:27:03 PM PST by GVnana
Aides blast accusations, not from Mitt camp
By Dave Wedge
Saturday, November 8, 2008 -
Mitt Romney’s camp is firing back at reports his foot soldiers are behind a brutal smear campaign against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in a backdoor strategy to position the former Bay State governor for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.
“It’s a completely absurd allegation that is totally divorced from the truth,” Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said.
Fox News, the New York Times [NYT] and Newsweek have reported on a host of criticisms of Palin, including that she threw tantrums that made staffers cry and didn’t know Africa was a continent. Several media outlets reported some of the leaks came from within the McCain campaign. But the political blog, The Palmetto Scoop, citing “very good sources,” said it was Romney loyalists working for McCain who were behind the “premeditated last minute sabotage” of Palin.
Fehrnstrom took issue with the Scoop’s claim that as much as 80 percent of Romney’s campaign staff went to work for Sen. John McCain’s team after the GOP primary. Only “a handful” of Romney operatives joined the Arizona senator’s campaign, he said.
“The truth is, there are no former Romney staffers in senior roles at the McCain campaign,” Fehrnstrom said. “I can think of a handful of people, maybe three or four, who went over, all in junior positions.”
However, Romney’s former campaign spokesman Kevin Madden was among the ex-Romney staffers to bash Palin. In an interview on CNN just a week before the election, Madden called Palin “unseasoned” and questioned whether she should have been McCain’s pick.
“When you put out an unknown and you give them 70 days with which to go through a vetting process, both by voters and the national press corps, ugly things can tend to happen,” Madden said.
Since McCain’s loss, Palin has been accused of dragging down the ticket in what her spokeswoman Meg Stapleton reportedly called “a circling firing squad.”
GOP strategist Holly Robichaud, who writes the “Lone Republican” blog for the Herald, said: “It’s definitely Romney’s people. They’ve been doing it for a while. Romney is thinking about running again in 2012 and he needs to kill off Sarah Palin in order to get there.”
Romney himself has defended Palin, calling her a “positive addition to the ticket” in an appearance on CBS’ “Early Show” a week before the election.
“For a first-time candidate on the national stage . . . you’re subject to the national spotlight. It’s more like a national torch,” Romney said. “She has been able to keep cool under the pressure.”
Meanwhile, a new Rasmussen poll shows that 64 percent of Republicans want Palin to be the GOP presidential candidate in 2012 while 11 percent prefer Romney.
Count me as one of them, I was going to do a write in, but voted for Sarah, plain and simple.
See post #52.
Romney has only succeeded by stealing from the American
taxpayer (eg. Olympic “bailout”, BIGdig “bailout”,
Massachusetts Socialized Medicine “bailout”).
Yeah, he knows economics. Wrong.
He sets things up which suck at the teat of American taxpayers.
Romney is a fraud -— and a backstabber.
I don't believe for a moment that Romney is part of it, but a few bitter fools in his inner circle are definately behind it. Loose cannons is the best description.
Romney didn't see the light on that issue, until he was running for President. Not to mention his great handling on the Gay marriage issue in his own state.
Yep. But it's just instinctual, when the media tells them, for Republicans to form a circle and open fire inwards.
Here is the link to the “Thank You Sarah” petition Michelle Malkin put up. The goal was to reach 10,000 it didn’t take long to reach 10,073. And if you read the answers, you will soon see that Sarah Palin was the only reason many many many people voted Republican at all.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/thank-you-sarah-palin
Just saying....
Why don't the trust fund babies join hands with the masses instead of always trying to stuff something down people's throats? Is is so difficult to grasp that some really smart, good people prefer to live a humble life?
Yes, but for her it's all the GOP.
Out of the approximately 120 million people who voted this election, 10 - 20 thousand is a drop in the bucket.
Just saying...
They have been attacking the Catholics for years, ever see a Gay parade in San Francisco?,(Neither have I but have seen oics)
That is your opinion, what I am looking at is that Romney is more successful in his personal economy 200 times over me and you combined. As a practicing professional engineer over 37 years, I learned never to prefer theory over actual results.
Who let you out of your cage again? What a load of bull.
Nope, may a misogynist, but not a Romneybot.
There are a lot of Palin supporters on this forum, and I am one. You guys come on these Palin threads and offer backhand compliments, then get into you she's too dumb position.
You get what you ask for, on a pro Palin thread.
by that logic we should nominate George Soros.
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