Posted on 01/22/2012 4:33:13 PM PST by greyfoxx39
One of the things fellow Republicans and political observers have never liked about Mitt Romney is the wholesome piety he exhibits on the stump, while his hacks and PACs engage in some of the ugliest politics around. He can flash that plastic smile and pretend all he wants, but people know the cold fish doesn't shy away from the politics of personal destruction. If anything, his campaigns embrace it more than most, while feigning ignorance and pretending otherwise himself.
This is why so many people in the GOP have come to dislike Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney backer and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's comments this morning that Newt Gingrich "embarrassed" the Republican Party has the formerr House Speaker's Florida campaign co-chairman, Alan Levine, fuming.
"Far be it from me to tell the governor of New Jersey to focus on his own state, but this isn't a way to begin a campaign in Florida. It's disappointing," said Levine, a former healthcare chief under Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal who is new a private-sector hospital executive.
But now he's panicking because his South Carolina campaign has become a laughing stock. I've talked with some long-time operatives on the ground, in some cases, they've alienated more people than they've pulled in. There's also talk that his people in Florida are starting to panick, now, too.
Mitt Romney can use a legal facade to feign ignorance with his PAC problems. But he can't do that with his surrogates who come with faces and names. He could call, or call-out a Coulter, or Christie and ask them to stand down. But he won't. And even if he did, he wouldn't mean it.
His weak political skills are catching up to him. Unable to truly connect with voters, it now appears he's going to try and rely on some slash and burn surrogates to tear the other guy down.
It won't work. Ultimately, all this vitriol is going to circle back and make him all the more unlikeable to the base, something he already is to a good degree. If he keeps it up, this puppy, Mittens, is going down. The use of surrogates, not PACs for his ugly brand of politics, brings it just a bit too close to home for him to continue to hide it. Voters always reject real ugliness in politics. They'll reject both it and Mitt Romney this time around, too.
Mittens was just on Huckleberry’s show. Tearing Newt down. Calling him a lobbyist. Nancy Pelosi on the couch. Fined for ethics violations. His only qualification was an unsuccessful 4 yrs as speaker. Just old talking points.
The Huckster did NOT say anything - just let him rant.
Yes, I see. I only have posted that phone bank number here at FR, and would never put it on Facebook, or a tweet or any social site. But I think FR is very safe and ethical... and I have a feeling a few of them could be very convincing!
Thanks to greyfoxx39 for the memory: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1966746/posts?page=20#20
Reaganesque was zotted by none other than the Zotfather if I recall correctly.
"the Romney crowd is an arrogant bunch. They still don’t see their mistakes as mustakes instead they are upset at the voters who dare expect them to win their vote on principle"....
You have to remember, Mitt is positive that he is foreordained to win and "save the Constitution". That arrogance you see comes from two sources..one being his wealth, and the other his upbringing as a mormon male who has risen up through the mormon ranks to a pretty high leadership position in the church.
This attitude of superiority is quite common in mormon males. They have been taught from birth that they are special and will, if they obey all the rules, become a god of their own planet.
Can't you tell by looking at Mitt's attitude that he really believes he is above all the peasants who, if they're lucky will crown him king? Just consider his refusal to account for his actions and his attempt to point at "the other guy" when he is confronted over them.
Frankly, I think he and Obama are two peas in a pod!
Romney knows very well that Gingrich made no such attack on "free enterprise."
Or, if he truly believes that Gingrich's challenge to him to explain his job creation numbers at Bain constituted an attack on "free enterprise," then he demonstrates that he truly does not understand how to explain the Founders' concept of "freedom of individual enterprise," much less to defend it against Obama's staunch defense of the ideas of redistribution.
He might have done well, in defeat, to have focused on attempting to improve on what Krauthammer has identified as his weakness--and that is his lack of capability for explaining conservative ideas.
Gingrich, on the other hand, was gracious in his winning, complimentary to his competitors, though disagreeing with some of their ideas, and admitted that it was not that he is such a great debater as the pundits condescendingly claim, but that he simply articulates the ideas of liberty which citizens feel in their hearts and want to hear someone defend against the onslaught of counterfeit ideas.
Romney confirmed by this unfair claim about what Gingrich actually had said that he cannot be trusted to be truthful, and that is exactly what Huckabee, McCain, and others in 2008 claimed about him.
Willard is desperate. When the chips are down, you can see where he goes— right down to the bottom of the barrel. He has dropped the pretense of having clean hands as his minions did his dirty work.
We absolutely must not have Romney as the nominee. He’ll never endear himself to the electorate in the general, and he doesn’t believe in anything.
Yes, yes, yes. I believe you are correct on that.
Onyx, Florida is definitely a mixed bag... and unless you’ve spent some time in Florida before moving here, it can turn into a bad life decision... Almost everybody I know from up north, who has moved here, regrets it. But on the other hand, the weather is great, prices relatively low, it is very laid back, and the beaches - most are exceptional.
Plus there are the “I’m a Mormon” ads. My wife asked me what was up with those the other day. I told her I thought it was how the Mormon Church could semi-surreptitiously support Romney’s efforts without explicitly doing so.
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How Mormon of him. Let the minions do the dirty work and you just ride the high (white) horse. He is proving he is ‘apostle’ material.
You got that right. In 1960, 3/4 of my 7th grade class had southern accents. Not any more, they're like hen's teeth now.
Sure is a coincidence, isn't it? Besides that, the feedback I get from folks is, "that is just so WEIRD! Do they believe we're supposed to think that makes them SPECIAL?"
For the first time ever, Scouts in uniform were not seen at a US-based Olympic competition. There are many stories, one of which is that this was to be a Gay-Friendly Olympics and Scouts did not allow gays. Another story was that there was some Union issue about seeing non-Union people working.
Anyway, scout troops were told that they could have their members volunteer as individuals out of uniform, but uniformed Scouts were not allowed to be seen volunteering.
The local SLC scouts offered one of their camps as Olympic housing and were told, NO, not at all.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/12/15/214301.shtml
http://articles.boston.com/2011-08-30/news/29946079_1_mitt-romney-official-volunteers-family-dog
As with most things Romney, it’s difficult to see what really happened and who made the decisions. The 18 year old “limit” is odd since under-18 scouts had volunteered in every other US Olympics, perhaps setting the age limit there was specifically set to eliminate most scouts.
From whyromney.com:
“Boy Scouts of America and 2002 Olympic Games
-Critics claim that Romney banned the Boy Scouts from participating in the 2002 Winter Olympics because of their stance on homosexuals. In reality, Scouts were not banned, and according to a local paper, Boy Scouts received “a list of volunteer opportunities they are eligible to participate in,” although they could not serve as regular volunteers due to “the minimum age requirement of 18 years.”
The list of volunteer opportunities did not include wearing Scout uniforms, though.
This article:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/799406/SLOC-denies-snubbing-Scouts-over-gay-stance.html
explains a little more. Scouts can volunteer, all right, but in behind-the-scenes roles or offsite roles like tree-planting (where the public will not see a Scout in uniform, my comment).
http://evangelicalsformitt.org/2006/12/sekulow-addresses-false-boy-scout-allegation/
There is lots of material out there, I searched on “2002 olympics boy scouts”.
My take is, SOMEONE decided that Scouts in uniform would not be seen by the public or on TV, and set an age limit and other restrictions to make sure that happened. Since Scouts have worked almost every other Olympics in the US that I can think of, the exclusion from 2002 is remarkable.
bttt
Big’ol_freeper: Hand raised. Accused of being a “son of perdition” as one example.
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Was it Resty that accused you by any chance?
Thanks
How could you possibly have guessed that? ;’)
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