How about the never of him to personally attack Governor Palin. And he does it right away. Basically gets up on stage, says hello, it’s good to be here, and then goes right after her. And personally. First he basically states flat out she’s not a conservative leader and calls her out for not being there(Of course, it’s real easy for Mitt to be there when he bailed on MA after 1 term and doesn’t have a day job nowadays). Then he basically says she’s a money grubbing attention seeker after an 11M dollar book deal. As if that wasnt enough, he twists the knife further by remining his audience ever so subtly that he’s loaded by saying that when asked about about his 11M book deal, he couldn’t spare the cash. I haven’t seen a politician from MA go after a woman like this since Teddy left Mary Jo in the car.
I always knew there was something about him that rubbed me the wrong way. A real man, a real republican, a real conservative, doesn’t show up at the first conservative gathering since the elction when we’re supposed to come together and unite, and use it to single out and launch an attack on someone in his own party. Of Course, Mitt proudly boasted of how as a grown man from 33-41 he was an independent during the Reagan years. Mitt isn’t fit to shine Dutch’s boots.
I mean, you can go through all of Ronald Reagan’s CPAC speeches and not once does he call out another Republican by name and attack them, and in so personal a manner. Not once.
He doesn’t even go after Obama in a personal manner.
The rest of the speech was fine as it goes, but that jibe was totally uncalled for and beneath him.
"There are so many conservative leaders here this weekend. I was looking forward to seeing Governor Palin again. There’s a rumor that she has been offered an 11-million-dollar book contract. My publisher has been talking to me about an 11-millon-dollar deal as well. I’m just not sure I can come up with that kind of money."You really have to twist and warp that to come up with any kind of attack. What you read into that short little compliment and self-deprecation speaks volumes of the baggage you must be carrying around.
That wasn’t an attack. It was a self-deprecating joke, aimed at himself. He was saying that someone is willing to offer Palin $11 million for a book, but he would have to pay someone $11 million in the vanity press to publish a book he wrote. How can you possibly interpret that as an attack on Palin?
I just read the speech, and the swipe at Palin was uncalled for.
You said “I haven’t seen a politician from MA go after a woman like this since Teddy left Mary Jo in the car.”
That’s a memorable line. I haven’t heard one that good since Teddy got Mary Jo into the car.
What real men, Republicans are you talking about? You mean the Pillsbury dough boys who currently occupy the United States Congress? Have you listened to any of our leaders lately? We aren’t even talking about John Wayne. If I can’t have “John Wayne” then I will settle for “Father Knows Best”. It’s a heck of a lot better then the hen-pecked boys who’ve currently been occupying Washington since the Clinton days. I think you are being really hard nosed, you can say a lot about Romney, but one thing you can’t say is he ain’t no Pillsbury’s Boy and he ain’t no one’s bitch either. The guy has got some, if you know what I mean. He rubs some the wrong way for a reason, because like I said, he’s no ones bitch. He IS a man. Don’tcha get it?
LIAR!!! Total Bull
Seriously- how could you misinterpret that? He made fun of himself, saying that he would have to PAY someone $11 million to write a book about himself.