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Mitt Romney’s main strategy in the GOP primaries of 2012 is to hammer Sarah Palin as “a quitter”.
Hillbuzz ^ | May 28 2010 | Kevin

Posted on 05/29/2010 9:20:24 AM PDT by curth

Yesterday, I was interviewed by a reporter for CBS, for a story on the diverse groups of people supporting Sarah Palin online. The reporter authored a book on Palin last year, after being embedded with her vice presidential campaign, following a stint covering Mittens Romney. I can’t imagine how many cucumbers-and-mayonnaise sandwiches this guy had to eat on the Romney Express (to nowhere), but I gave him the same kind of awed respect I grant anyone who’s ever spent more than half an hour with Tim Pawlenty — and didn’t succumb to T-Paw induced narcolepsy.

We (the reporter and I, not Tim Pawlenty or Mittens) met up at Nookie’s Tree in Boystown and talked about Sarah Palin over coffee. Doing enough of these interviews over the course of the last few years, and being interviewed by some great people like Andrea Shea King and Tammy Bruce, I can usually spot the story the reporter wants to tell by the way his questions unfold and what he keeps coming back to whenever I take the conversation on one of my tangents about how terrible the current administration is. The story CBS wants to do on Palin’s supporters appears to be something in the realm of “an unthinking, personal, and emotional defense of a woman they love”. It’s not a negative story, and the reporter doesn’t seem like the kind who would write a hit piece, on either Palin herself or on me as a Palin-supporter, but the impression I got from him was that he’s projecting the Left’s Obama cult of personality onto Palin supporters — when nothing could be further from the truth.

Most of the questions asked of me were in the vein of how I felt whenever Palin was attacked, and what makes me defend her.

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To: onyx; curth; Virginia Ridgerunner; SoCalPol; Al B.; Extremely Extreme Extremist

First things first Mittens was done the day O’Care passed. Now on to the subject of this post. Sarah knew if she wanted any chance to run in ‘12 she had to get out from behind the Governors desk. Thats why Sarah decided not to run for re-election. The mistake the Rats made was to give Sarah a out and she took it. Now if I am not mistaken Mitt tried to run for the senate while still in the Governors chair. T’Paw has the same problem as well collecting a pay check from the public troth while running for president. This office jumping isn’t going to go over to well in ‘12 with the base. All Sarah has to do is point this out and the “quitter” meme isn’t all that bad.

The other Sarah can do is bring certain voter into the process the others can’t. Think special needs parents and conservative democrats yes it may only be 5 million votes but it’s 5 million votes the other side won’t get.


141 posted on 05/29/2010 3:54:04 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: wtc911
ROFL....a lucrative career is the same thing as a higher position. Obama quit for more power, more pay. Palin turned her resignation into a plus by gaining more power and more pay

but you already knew that. (it wasn't a sure thing at the time like Obama’s was) would Obama have had enough balls to quit his senate career not knowing if he had a paycheck waiting for him? somehow I doubt Obama would have had enough courage to quit and face the prospect of not having a secure paycheck.

but you already knew that.

the two are the same and any person HONEST with himself would see that. Of course you have an agenda to make sure the two are not seen as the same so there is that.

142 posted on 05/29/2010 3:54:34 PM PDT by unseen1
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To: Dr. Sivana
Alex Beam: “In truth, Ronald Reagan
and Mitt Romney have as much in common
as Cardinal O’Malley and Conan O’Brien.
Deservedly or not, Reagan earned a reputation for constancy.
Once he turned against communism, he opposed it big-time.
…. And our former governor? Inconstancy, thy name is Mitt!
A woman’s right to choose? Yes! No! Yes!
Are we in Massachusetts? Yes! Are we in Iowa? No!
Are we on TV? Whatever!”


143 posted on 05/29/2010 3:56:35 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States Â… shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: Diogenesis
While I as a member of the masses agree with you. mitt is the front runner irt the GOP elites.

Two different voting blocks and thus two different frontrunners.

I agree that Mitt will be a very bad choice and will do nothing in the primaries if the voters have a choice. that is why the massive effort to get Palin not to run. the Mitt teams knows they can not defeat her at the voting booth.

144 posted on 05/29/2010 3:57:26 PM PDT by unseen1
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To: Clyde5445

Have spoke with 2 Democrats the past week who are changing their registration.
One is a Nuclear Engineer. They have had it with Obama
and the other Dems.


145 posted on 05/29/2010 3:59:15 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: onyx

I would like to know what Mitt would done about the oil spill.?

I know what Sarah would do and that makes all the difference in the world.


146 posted on 05/29/2010 3:59:45 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: curth
Mitty LOST last time after spending a gazillion dollars.

He should just go away and shut up.

I held my nose and voted for mclame ONLY because of Sarah. I will NEVER vote for a disgusting top-of-the-ticket again.

Mitty will never get my vote NO MATTER WHAT.

147 posted on 05/29/2010 4:00:45 PM PDT by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: unseen1
Bzzzt. Wrong.

NO ONE WANTS MITT "The backstabber and liar" Romney.

Except maybe MLK because they used to walk together.

"Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries,
(Mitt Romney, Carpetbagger UT,CA,MA,NH,Mexico) lost Iowa, South Carolina, Florida and California.
The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states;
and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals
couldn't spare the cash to advertise.
Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries.
(W)hen (Romney's early leads) started slipping away, he resorted to unfair,
distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't
afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges."

[Romney: A Mistake for McCain, 7/23/2008, Dick Morris]

148 posted on 05/29/2010 4:01:40 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States Â… shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: unseen1


149 posted on 05/29/2010 4:02:21 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States Â… shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: Clyde5445

No, Mitt stopped paying attention within 2 years of his governorship and was out of town as much as in state, cranking up his presidential run. (His failed senate run came before his governorship.)


150 posted on 05/29/2010 4:02:21 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Dr. Sivana
Richard Schweicker (liberal on everything EXCEPT HHS stuff, so he was well-placed)

Richard Schweiker wasn't as liberal as the consensus opinion would lead us to believe. Thanks to his buddy Paul Laxalt, who sat next to Schweiker in the Senate, Reagan knew that Schweiker's liberal voting record in the Senate was primarily on union issues since that was his constituency. Schweiker was no movement conservative but he was a strong pro-life Catholic, was pro-2nd Amendment and was a fierce anti-Communist.

Too bad that couldn't be communicated to the conservatives who stabbed Reagan in the back at the 1976 GOP convention, denying him the chance to grab the nomination in an open convention.

151 posted on 05/29/2010 4:03:41 PM PDT by Al B.
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To: Clyde5445
Excellent points, Clyde5445 and I love this one best!

The other Sarah can do is bring certain voter into the process the others can’t. Think special needs parents and conservative democrats yes it may only be 5 million votes but it’s 5 million votes the other side won’t get.

You are so right about those voters!

152 posted on 05/29/2010 4:05:05 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: Lakeshark

Don’t forget Sarah also made a promise to promote AK. That’s what the TV show is all about.


153 posted on 05/29/2010 4:05:55 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: Diogenesis

lol that was funny.


154 posted on 05/29/2010 4:06:02 PM PDT by unseen1
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To: Dr. Sivana
You can make the assessment, but don't expect people to agree with it...

I make the assessment that quitting was the best financial decision for herself based on her own comments about the personal cost and on her actions since quitting.

Bear in mind that in her resignation speach she gave multiple reasons and none of them clearly. One reason she gave was that, since she had decided not to run again she would be a lame-duck, and that lame-ducks just waste tax-payer monies by jet setting around.

That was extremely lame and patently false. Plenty, in fact I'd wager most, governors who are either term limited or have decided not to run do not spend their last two years in office frivolously wasting the public dollar. Most spend every minute up to their last day in office trying to push their agenda.

Quitting killed her POTUS dreams if she ever had any. It gave her opposition in any quarter the chance to ask her...

"Mrs. Palin, we know what it took to get you to quit the governorship. Since the problems, attacks and affronts are so much greater in the presidency, what will it take you to quit that job?"

If she had national ambitions then quitting was a damned stupid move. If she wanted to pursue wealth in the private sector then it worked.

155 posted on 05/29/2010 4:08:51 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: Clyde5445
I would like to know what Mitt would done about the oil spill.?
I know what Sarah would do and that makes all the difference in the world.

I'll guess he checked his portfoliofirst and I think he's still waiting to see what happens. I don't think he's said anything yet, or if he has, it's not made the news...lol.

156 posted on 05/29/2010 4:09:28 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: curth

Great...another M*sshole stinking up the entire country. If we have any leftover materials after building the wall at the southern border (ROTF); we should build a wall around Massachusetts.


157 posted on 05/29/2010 4:11:38 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Clyde5445
She made a few in that speech, and she seems to be keeping them just fine. To me, the most important one that should stick out for conservatives is her promise to make a difference nationally in this time of crisis for our freedoms. It's a promise all of us can cheer for, one we can get behind.

Mitt just promises.......anything, but rarely acts on what he said. He's a classic democrat in that way.

158 posted on 05/29/2010 4:12:16 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: wtc911
Nice lib talking points, you've got them down.

As I remember, you're not willing to admit what candidate your supporting. Is that still true?

159 posted on 05/29/2010 4:14:48 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: onyx; SoCalPol

And Another thing we should ask Mitt hows Utah doing. I would guess after the Bennett thing not to well.


160 posted on 05/29/2010 4:15:49 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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