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....."Frustrated rivals think they know the secret: a low-profile, hard-driving Republican operative named Matt Rhoades, who is Romney’s campaign manager. Rhoades met Drudge, as POLITICO Editor-in-Chief John F. Harris and co-author Mark Halperin reported in their book “The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008,” when he became research director of the Republican National Committee and was introduced by his predecessor on a special trip to Miami. Rhoades has since been seen as a pipeline to the reclusive Drudge, who now has two veteran Washington reporters working on the site as well.".... Source
Title should be “Drudge leads media backlash against conservatism.”
Him and Coulter can hope for their cocktail party invitations to rub elbows with the elitists. They are dead to me.
The other Romney operatives that now work for Drudge are reachable at:
Joe Curl
jcurl@washingtontimes.com
Charles Hurt
charleshurt@live.com
Where is ANONYMOUS when the country needs some dirty tricks reversed? LOL! (only sort of a “lol”....maybe more of a smirk.)
The headline from this Salt Lake City "news"paper is 100% wrong. Soon-to-be President Gingrich is a stalwart Christian Constitutional Conservative. Newt Gingrich is the Reagan of our era.
Those involved in the so-called backlash are certainly not Conservative. And Mitt Romney is not to the right of Obama. Only the pigmentation and hair styles are different.
What makes drudge a conservative? He’s just a guy who posts links and a picture on his page. He has never articulated any conservative view, as far as I’m aware.
This paper is owned by the Mormon church and has been in the tank for Romney since the beginning.
There is no “conservative” backlash against Gingrich. I am, however, surprised at just how deeply Romney’s people and Romney’s money were able to penetrate the media organizations that develop conservative opinion.
I am exceedingly proud, however, that a lot of us aren’t falling for the propaganda barrage. No, we are not shambling zombie flunkies for the voices of talk radio or Fox News.
Thank you, you who contribute here, because when I read your posts I realize that the whole conservative movement hasn’t gone completely insane.
Electability my eye. Anyone with half a brain can see that Flip will not be able to hold the Republican base together. Talk about the moderates and independents all you want, they won’t make any difference without the base turning out.
Romney would get crushed in the general, this is all about a squish who would never rock the boat. The perfect malleable candidate.
I've seen some dirty politics before, but this is unbelievable.
SLC lds owned paper. Yep, they are in the tank for their guy, Romney.
The best op research money can buy.
Yep, the pubbie pundits view us dumbass redneck rube TEA party jerks as too wild eyed and immature to pick our candidate.
I am so wild eyed right now, that it's good that I'm not in contact with any pundit.
I would hate to do time for doing the crime that is in my head right now.
BOYCOTT DRUDGE
The sister might be Drudge but I'm not sure Ann is really a "sister". They..together with their editor Brit Hume are GOProud (gay republicans)and they want the Mittens. If you want to warn somebody, you need to tell everyone that Mittens is sKerry.
Quote from a fellow Freeper...
"If Romney gets the nomination, mark my words: As soon as the convention is over, you're going to see the Romney who passed the Assault Weapons Ban. You're going to see the Romney who supported gay marriage. You're going to see the Romney who protected and knighted Planned Parenthood. You're going to see the Romney who invented Obamacare and wants to keep it going. And conservatives will no longer have any say inside the Republican Party."~Thane_Banquo
The Drudge Report = The Mitt Poofter Magic Underwear Romney Sodomy Coulter Report.
Just remember a few months back when the Romniacs were throwing everything but the kitchen sink at Palin, because they thought she was going to be their main rival.
When she dropped out they turned their guns on Gingrich. The party professionals are doing everything they can to make sure their guy is the nominee, and they’ll say anything, do anything, and they do not count the cost.
Its a war between the party professionals and the party rank and file. Its our party, but the parasitical “leadership” isn’t going down without a slash-and-burn fight. After a fight this bitter, it is going to be all but impossible to unite behind the winner, but they don’t care about that. They have to stop Gingrich even if it costs them the election later.
Drudge isn’t “leading” anything. He just links to other stories. All this stuff is coming out about Newt because it’s true; nobody’s making it up. Truth is newt is a jerk. Don’t try to twist that into saying I’m a Romneybot.
More for your comprehensive Romney truth file and the extent of the GOP-E involvement with him, as well as his nasty opposition research tactics.