Parker made news during the 2008 U.S. presidential election when she
called on the Republican vice presidential nominee, Governor Sarah Palin,
to step down from the party ticket, saying that Palin was "clearly out of her league."
Posted on 12/09/2011 6:18:16 PM PST by TBBT
“Anybody but Mitt” has become a familiar mantra throughout the Republican primary campaign. It is also weird and self-defeating.
Republicans apparently want to nominate anyone except the one person who can defeat Barack Obama. And for all the strangest reasons:
One: He’s changed his mind. True. He changed his mind, thus becoming more conservative.
Two: He’s too perfect.
Three: You can’t drink beer with him. Whatever.
The result of these petty obsessions has been a pathological flirtation with a parade of lesser candidates who could replace Romney. This parade has persisted despite polls consistently showing Romney as the most likely to defeat Obama. It continues even though it’s perfectly clear the White House worries most about Romney.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Newt derangement syndrome?
The libs and establishment all want Mitt.
They fear Newt.
Yawn...another affirmative action hire heard from...
I dunno. Obsess much?
RINO may be the most overused word in politics, but this fool is the poster girl for RINO.
EVERYTIME someone out-polls Romney-the-RINO, they get their panties in a bunch, and start harping on some fabricated reason why Repulicans, Conservatives, Tea Partiers, etc. are in trouble.
What a hoot!
“except the one person who can defeat Barack Obama”
How does the author know this? Is there a crystal ball somewhere that has determined this future? This is just one more case of opinion posing as news.
That Parker, David Brooks and George will have their panties in a bunch over Newt being the nominee says they are afraid Newt is too conservative.
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
Mitt was never even in the primary as far as I was concerned.
This primary was between Santorum, Bachmann, Perry, Cain, and Gingrich. And we have found our winner.
Paul with his 8% support and Romney with his 23% support were completely irrelevant.
“except the one person who can defeat Barack Obama”
It is obvious that in her small mind that person is Mitt Romney. No question she is a shill for the Republican establishment. AKA RINO.
"Kathleen Parker: After Interviews, Palin Should Bow Out"
Staggering bigotry of Kathleen Parker - UPDATED"
Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney
"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?"
If Kathleen Parker were any lower on the Intellectual
“ Totum Pole of Life” , she would have mortar chips falling out of her ears.
Dang, the WaPo is on a Newt-bashing surge.
Notice you never see these hit pieces for Romney.
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
Probe: Mitt missed chance to keep Tavares jailed - Could have nixed killer’s early exit
Friday, December 28, 2007 - Boston Herald
"Former Gov. Mitt Romney’s administration failed to act on disciplinary recommendations
that would have kept ex-con killer Daniel Tavares locked up another year -
and behind bars at the time he was accused of killing a newlywed couple in Washington state."
"Despite Tavares’ long history of violence, the Romney-led Department of Correction
took no action on recommendations that he be stripped of “good time” because
of assaults on prison guards in 2003 and 2005, said sources familiar with a state probe into the case."
“Kathleen Parker”
Disregard.
Establishment is more than unhinged they are ready for the men in the white coats to come and take them away...ha ha hee hee to the funny farms. Especially the HIGH priced political analyist that are watching their predictions go down the tubes.
Turn on Fox in the am and listen to Rove ...he is aghast. I am looking very forward to the debate tomorrow NIGHT
Are Peggy Noonan and tom coburn Rinos? A lot of conservatives are sayng Newt is bad news and can easily turn a sure win into a disaster. I am very fearful of the current crew we have running. I think leading Tea partiers are going to have to get together with establishment types and talk a serious candidate like Jindal or Mcdonell or someone else (Portman maybe)who can put up a real fight and be good President accountable to both. Romney and Gingrich are not the men we need. Do this before it is to late!
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