Romney advisor on Palin: “She’s not a serious human being”

Hot Air ^ | July 15, 2010 | Allahpundit

[muawiyah]

Romney, at this point, is little different than a stalking horse for "The Huck".

You get a few months into the primary races you'll see him dropping out to tend to business ~ gonna' be a long cold difficult Ginormous Obama Depression going on, and that's where Mit is needed. Pushing the economy, not his political BS.

[Bigg Red]

All these brave anonymous commenters. They are afraid to come out in the open because they know that Sarahcuda could skin them alive. Cowards!

[Dr. Sivana]

In fact, the President’s advisers believe that if Palin is the nominee, New York’s billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, could enter the race as an independent, scrambling all the conventional rules yet again.

Bloomberg, on his best days a liberal Republican, would be doing Palin a huge favor if he does this. He would come across more as John Anderson than Ross Perot. The fact is that Palin is REALLY weak in the heavily populated northeast. But that does not mean that Obama is all that popular there. Bloomberg will get ZILCH in the south (unlike Texan Hercules Ross Perot) and the Mountain area. Any votes he gets in NYC, Massachusetts and California are coming straight out of Obama's hide.

[9YearLurker]

Everyone knows those clowns are working for him, so I can’t quite see how it doesn’t obviously reflect poorly on him when they spout off like that. I suppose they think they did so much damage when they trashed her undercover for him from within the McCain campaign that they should just keep it up. But it is really disgusting and goes far beyond the usual etiquette for intra-party competition.

[chris_bdba]

Mitt Romney= 0% chance of carrying Ohio.

[MattinNJ]

I wish Mitt masscare Romney would drop out or it will cost the conservatives a lot of money to beat him in the primaries. The issue to win on is health care. He has zero credibility.

[Dr. Sivana]

. And I’ve noted before myself that, given the media’s obsession with painting her as a female Quayle, she’d have to be virtually perfectly on the trail for more than a year to avoid that narrative. The tiniest, most innocent flub — think Bush being quizzed on the names of foreign diplomats — will be hyped into the second coming of the Katie Couric interview, with the press breathlessly insisting that no sane person would vote for such a doofus.

Unlike Quayle, she has excellent political instincts and knows how to fight back. Also, they have been over persuing for two, soon to be four years now. Watching the press go after Sarah Palin is like watching a blitz against Joe Montana in his prime.

[RichInOC]

I consider political advisors to one campaign who anonymously rubbish a (potentially) competing candidate from the same party not particularly serious human beings. Aaaaand...you know what? Let’s have Mitt Romney, or any of the other guys in the Republican field, go through a fraction of the kind of crap Sarah Palin has had to put up with for the last couple of years and see how their endurance is. That the woman hasn’t curled up whimpering in the fetal position is impressive enough in itself. That she’s throwing bombs back at the Dems and the press and having fun doing it is freaking awesome. If Romney’s brain trust seriously thinks otherwise and isn’t just spinning...well, some brains.

[marron]

One adviser to Mitt Romney... says of Palin, “She’s not a serious human being.”

She's in the fight. She isn't seriously AWOL waiting to be crowned "leader".

Leaders lead. Fighters fight. Pretenders wait for a coronation that isn't coming.

[9YearLurker]

I hope she can keep the crazy uncle Ron Paul within the party too.

[The Wizard]

News Flash: Mittens ain't gonna be president

[Dr. Sivana]

And of course, that media coverage will be worth millions in itself. Remember: The default press narrative in 2012 will be Palin vs. Anti-Palin, with the task for Romney, Daniels, or whoever emerges as her nemesis to try to embody the good qualities the Anti-Palin is supposed to have — smart, competent, experienced — while avoiding the bad ones (elitist, white-collar, uncharismatic).

This exact paragraph could have been written in October, 1979, substituting the word "Reagan" for "Palin" and "G.H.W. Bush and Howard Baker" for "Romney" and "Daniels." We know how that turned out. Bush beat Reagan in Iowa, but Reagan rebounded to sweep after some dramatic moments in NH. Romney should win NH, but it won't be pretty. It is practically a home state for him and he couldn't even beat McCain there.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I wish at least one of these stories about the “Romney Advisor” would tell us the guy’s name, so we wouldn’t have to keep trashing “Mr. Romney Advisor”.

Names are really good things, and we aught to use them.

It might also help to figure out exactly where in the chain of command this advisor is.

[glorgau]

“If Romney's standing up there in a debate and the answers are more than 15 seconds long, there's sure to be a contradiction with one of his previous positions.”

[Dr. Sivana]

“Hello. My name is Michael Bloomburg. I’m a multi-billionaire and I understand the hardship you are going through.”

Next.

How about? "Hello. My name is MIchael Bloomberg. Let me tell you how we deal with these things in New York City..."

[CLICK]

[NurdlyPeon]

I raised slightly over $40,000 for Fred and will aim at $2 million dollars for Governor Palin. You can, too.

I may not be able to raise that much, but I promise I'll give till it hurts. (I gave to Fred too).

[SwedeBoy2]

“Exit question: Some Palin critics are speculating that the Bristol/Levi tabloid wedding announcement was secretly blessed by Sarah.”

What If the whole Levi Bristol breakup was planned by the Palin clan to keep Sarah’s name in the Public eye?

“There’s no such thing as Bad Publicity”

I couldn’t believe it when I read that they were getting back together after some of the most viscious stuff Levi said.

[silverleaf]

Beware of “Republicans” who employ campaign and other staff who leak small petty remarks about anyone, much less other Republicans, much less the top Republican rainmakers for funding conservative causes and candidates.

Our nation is in dreadful peril, this is not a time for anti-obamites to eat each other.

My impression of Romney is negative and distasteful. This crap adds to that, big time. That cowardly elitist staffer is very McCain-esque, too.

[SuziQ]

Hmmm. I seem to remember Sarah doing pretty well against Joe Biden. I don’t remember Romney doing that well, even against John McCain.

[nikos1121]

Let that idiot Gomer Pyle clone Huckabee and the rest fight it out...Palin can enter if there is a ground swell for her to do so, but there is no need for her to jump in sooner than later.