Posted on 05/03/2009 8:34:54 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
In the latest instance of a high-profile GOP member taking a passing swipe at the party's 2008 vice-presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Governor and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney jokingly dismissed Sarah Palin’s inclusion on TIME’s list of influential people in an interview broadcast Sunday.
He asked, was “the issue on the most beautiful people or the most influential people?”
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Romney, who was appearing with House Minority Whip Eric Cantor as part of a party re-launch the two are organizing with other prominent Republicans under the banner of the National Council for a New America, was laughing and smiling as he said it. His spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, called it only “a self-deprecating joke as to why there weren't more Republicans on the list.”
But Romney’s quip reflects the deep unease among many in the GOP establishment about the continued high-profile of Limbaugh and especially Palin. There is almost a sense of exasperation among many party elites over the media coverage the two polarizing figures get – attention which, in Palin’s case, is widely seen as a product largely of her good looks and tabloid-fodder family troubles.
“She’s bigger in the media than in reality,” lamented GOP consultant Mike Murphy, a longtime friend and adviser to John McCain.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
They should be called the Nadless Council for a Neutered America.
The GOP ought to be uneasy. The People spoke loud and clear during the 2008 campaign about how they felt about Sarah Palin.
There was no doubt in anyone's minds as to who The People really wanted for President. The liberals knew it, the MSM knew it, the country club RINOs knew it, and WE knew it.
Every one of those groups has reacted with vile ugliness toward Sarah, except the patriotic majority of this country. They are scared to death of her, because she represents and supports all that we conservatives hold dear.
Know the enemy by what they say about Sarah Palin.
Ok that works too! LOL
And, she's a threat...to them. She's actually a contender, not a pretender.
Agree - they can laugh at her and giggle.
Exactly what they did with Reagan. I have no doubt that she’s taking notes and a lot of Republicans (office holders and staffers) will be praying that she loses in some way.
Can we just flush them all and go to the pet store for new ones?
It’s just funny how what they thought was cool to do and say last year is seriously erroneous this year (of course always has been uncool to me)and they are shaking in their boots together to find a way out of the hole they’ve spent so much time digging for themselves.
Is McCain still under the delusion that he has another shot?
ROFLMAO... I heard something today that just cracked me up.... if the balls don’t touch it isn’t gay..... Guess those guys in the GOP don’t have anything to worry about. I am so sick of their “Bi”-Partisanship. Have some bloody principles and NEVER CAVE IN ON THEM. Damn it, no one ever said being honorable would be EASY. Buck up campers! That’s my message to the GOP.
Sorry for the sicko reference.... it was funny tho....
Palin is bigger in the minds of the voters than republican
hasbeens.
Let’s go Sarah!
Bide your time, build your org
Pace yourself, we are waiting.
He asked, was “the issue on the most beautiful people or the most influential people?”
What a moron!
Gov. Palin’s appeal, in significant part, was that she was reputed to be an anti-etablishment “pit bull” who would run against these GOP oligarchs.
She hasn’t done so, at least not yet. But, imo, the conservative outsider who has the courage to call out thesemiserable Washingtonians - wins the prize.
Vin
Do you believe if Palin was at the top of the ticket, she would have beaten Obama?
Not one of them can deliver a decent stump speech. Not one of them has a single idea not hold by Nelson Rockefeller fifty years ago.
media sowing discontent and infighting in the republican party. Its just media hyping little difference and exaggerating criticism. Don’t be quick to believe in media quotes of what so-and-so said
McCain is an enemy of all conservatives and Romney is hot on his heals. These milquetoast mamby pambys are trying to prevent conservatives from taking over the Republican party. If they prevail, it's all over. They are not has-been losers, they are powerful, active enemies.
The GOP is through! Washed Up! Totally without leadership! IOW a complete bust!
I don’t. The Bush induced financial collapse sank the Republican ticket. Still, Obama would have looked like the cold fish he is if he had had to debate her face to face.
Seems like a case of “Palin Distress Syndrome”.
If Sen Snowe or Collin had Palin’s looks, the establishment wouldn’t mind. Palin’s problem, from their perspective, is that she isn’t a blue-blood. She went to a public university, isn’t the daughter of a politician, and doesn’t owe them anything.
I don’t know if I want Palin as our nominee in 2012 - but I’m sure not impressed by anyone else at this point. This ‘We Hate Conservatives’ Tour sure isn’t going to win them votes...
In 1996, when Senator William Cohen announced his retirement, Collins announced her Senate candidacy. After a difficult three-way primary, she defeated Democrat Joe Brennan in the general election with 49% of the vote to Brennan’s 44%.”
In 1988, she worked as a sports reporter for KTUU-TV and KTVA-TV in Anchorage, and for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman as a sports reporter. She also helped in her husband’s commercial fishing family business.
Nov 12 2008, why would that date stand out. Get lost mole.
Pray for America
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