Has the Political Annihilation of Mitt Romney Begun?

Muny Dews Blog ^ | 5-14-11 | Muny Dews

[cripplecreek]

Anyone who ran in 2008 ought not to even THINK about running in 2012

No kidding, I'm tired of perpetual candidates.

[Berlin_Freeper]

How would it be possible to publish a favorable piece about Romney?

[Cringing Negativism Network]

ROFL that’s true.

In fact my most recent FReepathon donation - was during a moment of concern I may have said something nice about Mitt.

:) I love FR.

Link to the FReepathon, readers, almost 95% donate away!!!:
https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/

[PENANCE]

A lot of reporters get pretty sick of a guy who changes his positions from hour to hour based on the special interest group he happens to be speaking to."

Sorry, you lost me there.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Clearly the post was confusing Mitt with Obama.

Understandable...

[Vaquero]

soooo the people who vote in Republican primaries will not vote for the ‘Architect of Obamacare’????

who’d a thunk it?

[C. Edmund Wright]

Now this will make some FREEPERS heads explode. I’ve been seeing for months that the GOP establishment and the NRO and WSJ are “pushing Mitt down our throats”

[Silverfiddle]

I heard Romney was in negotiations with Obama to replace Biden on the 2012 ticket.

[PENANCE]

I can’t believe the Republican establishment could ever do something correct.

I'm with you. Either conservatives are having a greater influence; OR, the GOP Establishment has something up their sleeve to nominate somebody even worse than Romney.

Besides, the article cites an Op-ed by Mark Steyn. Mark Steyn is a true conservative -- he's the opposite of the GOP Establishment.

[Diogenesis]

Romney was brainwashed. That said,

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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"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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"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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[Brookhaven]

I’ve been seeing for months that the GOP establishment and the NRO and WSJ are “pushing Mitt down our throats”

That has been what was going on for months. But now we're seeing just the opposite: the WSJ and NRO have done a 180; now they are cutting the legs out from under Romney. Why?

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Circulation I would guess.

Unlike the MSM, Fox pays attention to middle America.

[JPG]

The E-GOP has had a change of heart and are now pimping Daniels....so, Myth has to go.

[babygene]

It seems to me that if we do not nominate the person MOST hated by the main stream media, we have been suckered...

Wonder wonder that would be?

[C. Edmund Wright]

I’m not so convinced they’ve been pushing Mitt down our throats for months, though some of their writers no doubt find him an attractive candidate. They also are eaten up with conventional wisdom groupthink.

Now, as for the 180 — my guess is they’ve figured out that he is a no go and that Romney Care - and his awful defense of it - is the final nail in his coffin for a lot of folks. You just can’t run an election against Obama Care (and that will be the key issue) if you’ve instituted Romney Care.

[DManA]

Mitt cut his own throat this week.

[DManA]

He boldly pled guilty as charged this week.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Nominating the person most hated by the MSM is a good strategy. Since August of 2008 that has been Palin, which I assume is your point. I could live with that.

I’m sure they are just starting to really hate Herman Cain. Give them some time with him, and they’ll grow to hate him. They also hate Bachmann. What I love today is that they have to mourn the loss of the Huckster from the list.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Nominating the person most hated by the MSM is a good strategy. Since August of 2008 that has been Palin, which I assume is your point. I could live with that.

I’m sure they are just starting to really hate Herman Cain. Give them some time with him, and they’ll grow to hate him. They also hate Bachmann. What I love today is that they have to mourn the loss of the Huckster from the list.

[Thebaddog]

Mitt could have fixed his problem if he had said that Romneycare seemed right at the time, but analysis of its operations where the inability to cut costs and the extended wait to see a physician, all indicate a failed idea. He could take the lead and turn the issue on Obama as a national debate if he were to wise up on this concept.

But Mitt also has to articulate his core principles that he has governed by and that would be an even bigger problem. Seeya Mitt. Wouldn’t want to be ya!