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.
I have all kinds of stuff to sell you Diogenesis.
One thing I have is a wood board stretcher, for when you cut the wood to short.You’ll buy anything.Next a Dickfer.Let me know.
Any republican would have been tied to Bush unless they were very new or much more conservative. Romney was out on both counts.
Is he a reuplican?
Typical Romney falsehood: "I told you what my position was, and what I, what I did as governor; the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."
The truth:
Romney: "“That’s not going to make me the hero of the NRA”
Boston Herald (1994)
Romney: " “I don’t line up with the NRA.”
Boston Globe, January 14, 2007
“This is utter bull from the LIBERAL RAG, the BOSTON HEARLD.”
Don’t let Howie hear you saying that.
No. Those were facts.
America shares an opinion that Romney and his evil associates
are no good, and up to no good.
MITT ROMNEY IS DISGUSTING. I NEVER WANT TO HEAR HIS NAME AGAIN. HE’S A PRETTY BOY OPERATOR and RINO. HE COULD HAVE DELIVERED MICHIGAN...... but instead, DECIDED TO TAKE A NAP.... NOW HE CAN GO MEDITATE ON THE JOYS OF BEING MORMON AND RICH — We can all do without him.
Mrs. Esopman
Because of Romney haters in GOP and McCain getting crossover votes from dimocrats who wanted to see a 72 year old go against a lean and tall and youthful looking candidate of their own.
What is the connection with Romney?
You talkin’ to me, you little paid liberal troll-puke ? Why don’t you pick up your Slick Willard kneepads and head on over to DU where you belong. You’re not welcome on FR.
So get lost. Now.
Show me where I said that she’s too dumb.
Go on, show me.
All I said was that she didn’t bring as many votes to the ticket than many people think for the simple fact that the great majority of voters vote for the top of the ticket, not the bottom, and that McCain was a horrible candidate.
My God, stop looking for slights where there are none.
Which one is Romney, the one with the hair who believes that Jesus and Lucipher were brothers?
SSDD for the Backstabber-Romney.
Perception is tainted by numerous factors; tunnel-vision among them.
It’s a completely absurd allegation that is totally divorced from the truth,” Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said.
Answers like this....to simple “yes” or “no” questions....tell me that this Romney spokesman isnt being straight up...
Then he shouldn't have Governed as one. He has a record that disputes your enamored opinion.
From the mouth of the corrupt individuals that made
fake law enforcement badges to get around the law,
and harass citizens who obeyed it.
Mitt Romney is a curse to America.
If’n he had said emphatically that it was untrue, would you beileve him more or continue with the snarky?
When are we gonna finally clear the scum paid agents of Slick Willard off of FR for good ? The Rudy supporters got run off here, and they were nowhere near as destructive and vicious in their sycophantic support of a Socialist backstabber.
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