Poll: Sarah Palin remains threat to Mitt Romney in potential GOP 2012 race

The Boston Herald ^ | 2009-07-08 | Dave Wedge

[Jewbacca]

MSM? I had no idea CATO was part of the MSM.

[Diogenesis]

The MSM wants Romney so they can destroy him with what they have.

The real sickness is that Team Romney eviscerated Gov. Palin and her children
throwing Election2008 in Operation Romney-Leper.

Willard Brutus Romney

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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"Schmidt was importuned by several of the Republican aspirants for president earlier this year.
Mitt Romney sent him an antique chair to symbolize a seat at the table."

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"Romney would not say whether he’d been vetted,
but did insist that the vice presidency was a subject he had never even so much discussed with McCain,
with whom he often tangled bitterly in the primary campaign.
So I tried another tack, recalling that I had been in a car with McCain and his then aide John Weaver,
reporting a piece for V.F. in the fall of 2006,
just after McCain delivered an address at Boston College’s opening convocation.
Weaver’s phone rang, and it was someone at B.C.,
informing him that Romney’s office had just called to ask when he would be invited to speak."

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"Texan helped McCain secure Romney endorsement
AUSTIN – The decision by Mitt Romney to endorse John McCain didn't just happen, of course. It took a Texan who knows something about uniting fierce political rivals.
John Weaver, Mr. McCain's former political guru, was the intermediary who initiated talks between the two sides that led to Mr. Romney's announcement of support.
...Here's how the two came to make a joint appearance Thursday in Boston: Last week, Mr. Weaver got a call from McCain aides Charlie Black and Steve Schmidt, who asked if he would help broker an endorsement.
Mr. Weaver, who had left the McCain campaign in last year's shakeup, is a longtime friend of Beth Myers, Mr. Romney's campaign manager.."

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Jonah Goldberg: "A Letter to Sarah Palin
Mitt Romney, Indiana governor Mitch Daniels, Louisiana governor
Bobby Jindal, and other hands-on types are what the party wants and, frankly, needs."

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David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

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David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician.
Let me say for the record: If Romney emerges as the Republican nominee, I will support him without qualm."

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Scumbag 5th-columnist who attacked Gov.Palin, in the 6 weeks before the election,
throwing Election2008 with the rest of TeamRomney.

David Frum: "Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 Early Show appearance."

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Poor sport spoiler Romney doing what he does best:

Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"

Said Novak: "The rumors were traced in part to Mitt Romney's campaign,
trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson."

"Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries,
(Mitt Romney, Carpetbagger UT,CA,MA,NH,Mexico) lost Iowa, South Carolina, Florida and California.
The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states;
and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals
couldn't spare the cash to advertise.
Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries.
(W)hen (Romney's early leads) started slipping away, he resorted to unfair,
distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't
afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges."
[Romney: A Mistake for McCain, 7/23/2008, Dick Morris]

[Breto]

Dittos and he is a quitter with a rolodex of principles. One for every occasion, no guarantee on having the same one twice.

[Diogenesis]

That is not fair ... to Hepatitis C.

[keats5]

Wow, Sarah’s one point behind and she never even campaigned in the primaries.

[Tigercap]

No Romney. After Obama we’re going to need a real conservative!

[FroggyTheGremlim]

I’m not a RomneyBOT. I’m 100% Sarah.

But I think Romney has some fiscal and business experience that would be valuable. As President, Sarah would have final say, but Romney could give good contributions.

Just my 2 cents - following Pres. Reagan’s eleventh commandment.

[techno]

And this poll was taken AFTER she announced her resignation of Friday.

[Diogenesis]

You are a RomneyBOT. No matter the facts. It shows, friend.

[Katarina]

That is great thank you.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Believe what you want.

[ansel12]

Says the newby, anti-conservative, pro-abortion, troll.

[deannadurbin]

Does Romney think he can buy the election again? We saw how well that worked out in the primaries. Despite his fortune and buying the AM talk radio hosts to promote him he flunked so badly he couldn’t even stay in the race past Huckabee! If he couldn’t beat Huckabee in the primary what makes ANYONE think he can win against Obama for the presidency???

[Diogenesis]

Everyone believes what they want.
You are sweet on Romney and have not rebutted the facts
that he is terrible at economics except when he is a
predator stealing federal funds (eg. Olympics).

[mrsixpack36]

Rick Perry is the only person I can say—if he were nominated—I would campaign totally against. The guy is Blago from the south. He is a nanny-state governor who cannot be trusted one bit. The stunt he pulled with teenage girls, the constant bar raids (basically outlawing the consumption of alcohol in texas), talk about succession, the land grab scheme he attempted, ect ,ect ,ect. The good people of texas are being snookered by this crook. KBH is a pretty reliable conservative vote, she does have her faults, but is way better than the snake Rick Perry.

[glorgau]

I have it strong authority that Romney has always been a moose hunter. Even before he was a life long member of the NRA.

[rabscuttle385]

i was a romney guy at that point. (source)

Hello, Romneybot.

[Diogenesis]

FACTOID OF THE DAY:

As Gov of Massachusetts, Election2008-Spoiler Mitt "Lying Myth" Romney
actually raised taxes on New Hampshire residents.

Now how Romney is that?

[khnyny]

Umm, Sarah Palin just endorsed Rick Perry as I’m sure you know.