Romney will hit key primary states on book tour

Boston Globe ^ | January 3, 2010 | Sasha Issenberg

[GOP_Raider]

See, I can’t imagine that there would be that many people wanting to buy Romney’s book. Maybe this will end up like Jim Wright’s book back in the 80s where a bunch of union thugs bought them in bulk and there were hundreds of empty pages?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Which Democrat primary states is he visiting?

[thedilg]

and apparently has no principles beyond his own electoral prospects
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Does anyone know if the Mormons’s are tolerant or supportive of a pro-abortion position?

Godspeed

[ellery]

Depends on the individual, I expect.

[ellery]

Bwahahaha!

[Leisler]

The Globe is hoping Mitt does to the national GOP, what he did to the Mass GOP. Buy it, and kill it, like some loser company. And, he can do it too. He might of not gone to Vietnam ( as much as he certainly wanted to), but he is a good GOP killer.

[thedilg]

Depends on the individual, I expect.
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Thanks for the response. However, does that mean that the official Morman position is tolerant of a pro-abortion politician.

[DoughtyOne]

I may be wrong. Others have disagreed. It is early. I’m just going with my gut instinct.

Thanks for the response.

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t think those are unreasonable comments. I would say that McCain probably siphoned off Romney support in 2008. And if that is true, Romney may reasonably be expected to get it all in 2012.

You have come down with the idea Huckabee would come out on top. That may very will turn out to be true. I still lean toward Romney doing so though.

We’ll see.

[Candor7]

[9YearLurker]

I see Pawlenty peeling off a lot of Huck support and it being a three-way race with Pawlenty, Romney and Palin—and Palin winning it all.

[WVKayaker]

Give it a rest, Mitt. Look at Sarah’s numbers. ...

This morning, Sarah Palin has 1,151,724 supporters on FaceBook.

Mitt Romney has 131,450 supporters on there.

Click pic for SarahPAC

[Diogenesis]

Romney does not HELP. He wants a GOP loss, for him to “fix”. Consider:

The McCain/Palin ticket was up, some say ++8 to 10 pts. in some polls, days prior to the election.
So rather than helping the GOP win, poor loser Romney and
TeamROMNEY decided to attack Gov. Palin to throw Election2008.

"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 (2008, weeks before the election) Early Show appearance."

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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… I will support him without qualm."

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
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…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"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."

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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."
… 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.

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Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
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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"Promise anything."

[Diogenesis]

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Go away Mitt. Just go away.

[hrh40]

Hmmmm. Mitt might not even win the MA primary if you check out the comments on that BG massage piece.

Many of them are MA people, some who voted for him, and yet now call him Flip Romney.

[ellery]

Here’s what I found on that question. I don’t know what the church’s stance is on pro- and anti-abortion politicians, however.

http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/public-issues/abortion

[DoughtyOne]

Well that could be true. It could also be true that Palin will by that time have lost a lot of luster due to her own personal views becoming a lot more clear about a number of issues.

I hope that Palin remains a good prospect. Then I hope the morons in the early primary states pull their heads out and vote for a nominee we all can support. That was the tragedy of the last election. They didn’t.