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“She’s bigger in the media than in reality,” lamented GOP consultant Mike Murphy, a longtime friend and adviser to John McCain. Well, well, well...look what the cat dragged in. |
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Posted on 05/03/2009 8:34:54 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
In the latest instance of a high-profile GOP member taking a passing swipe at the party's 2008 vice-presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Governor and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney jokingly dismissed Sarah Palin’s inclusion on TIME’s list of influential people in an interview broadcast Sunday.
He asked, was “the issue on the most beautiful people or the most influential people?”
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Romney, who was appearing with House Minority Whip Eric Cantor as part of a party re-launch the two are organizing with other prominent Republicans under the banner of the National Council for a New America, was laughing and smiling as he said it. His spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, called it only “a self-deprecating joke as to why there weren't more Republicans on the list.”
But Romney’s quip reflects the deep unease among many in the GOP establishment about the continued high-profile of Limbaugh and especially Palin. There is almost a sense of exasperation among many party elites over the media coverage the two polarizing figures get – attention which, in Palin’s case, is widely seen as a product largely of her good looks and tabloid-fodder family troubles.
“She’s bigger in the media than in reality,” lamented GOP consultant Mike Murphy, a longtime friend and adviser to John McCain.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
McCain? Romney? I thought they said GOP leaders?
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“She’s bigger in the media than in reality,” lamented GOP consultant Mike Murphy, a longtime friend and adviser to John McCain. Well, well, well...look what the cat dragged in. |
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If the shoe fits Mr. Plastic Ken Doll....
Why’s Eric Cantor mixing in with these folk? Perhaps this answers why he was under consideration for VP last year.
As opposed to your hero, the failed loser who is shrinking and shrivelling to the vanishing point.
These beltway a-holes really do not have the slightest clue as to why they are all losers at this moment in time.
This is pretty much Exhibut A as to what is wrong with the Republican Party. If any of these idiots actually think she’s repsonsible for the loss they really need to take a very long look into their very own bathroom mirror. Of course these people will trash Palin but then when they need a headliner for a fundraiser will be call 1-800-ALASKA? You Betcha!
It’s funny, but every time someone in the Republican Party starts to look good - relative to Sarah, they flame out...either by getting on the global warming train or, now, by talking about how horrible the party is because Spector left...as if that will somehow get us votes.
I’m so sick of these people going to a TOTALLY HOSTILE media to vent their views on this type of stuff, I’m now back to being a Palin supporter.
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/05/romney-disses-palin-again-this-time-by.html
Mike Murphy turns out to be a Romney guy.
Man, these pinheads sure are pushing Mitt Romney...
Yeah, the Republicans have to offer a good alternative to the Democrats...by becoming just like them.
Genius!!!
He’s living out the 15 minutes of fame he “earned”.
Time to leave the stage dude. Step off.
“I thought they said GOP leaders?”
Sadly, until proven otherwise they are.
Now, conservative leaders that is a whole different story, and, that too is sad. It does not appear that Republican “leadership” is going to allow conservatives to take the helm.
You and me both. I'm so sick of these unprincipled HACKS.......
Sarah is not part of the political elite that these a-holes are a part of. That's why they attack her.
> Responding to King’s question first, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor said “there are some who like to make it all about personalities, but it’s about ideas.”
That is a terribly boneheaded idea. It takes a PERSONALITY to effectively communicate IDEAS.
Reagan not only had ideas, he was an expert at communicating these ideas. Republicans can have the best ideas in the world and they still will go down in defeat if they do not have an effective personality to communicate these ideas.
How true! McCain went as far as he did only because Palin connected with real Americans in a way these beltway bozos could only dream of doing.
Dream ticket, Palin/Limbaugh. Ok forget Rush, I want Sarah (drop the girl-girl jokes before they even start boys!) Sarah is my Candidate.
Mitt Romney truly is a skunk in wolf’s clothing.
They should be called the Nadless Council for a Neutered America.
The GOP ought to be uneasy. The People spoke loud and clear during the 2008 campaign about how they felt about Sarah Palin.
There was no doubt in anyone's minds as to who The People really wanted for President. The liberals knew it, the MSM knew it, the country club RINOs knew it, and WE knew it.
Every one of those groups has reacted with vile ugliness toward Sarah, except the patriotic majority of this country. They are scared to death of her, because she represents and supports all that we conservatives hold dear.
Know the enemy by what they say about Sarah Palin.
Ok that works too! LOL
And, she's a threat...to them. She's actually a contender, not a pretender.
Agree - they can laugh at her and giggle.
Exactly what they did with Reagan. I have no doubt that she’s taking notes and a lot of Republicans (office holders and staffers) will be praying that she loses in some way.
Can we just flush them all and go to the pet store for new ones?
It’s just funny how what they thought was cool to do and say last year is seriously erroneous this year (of course always has been uncool to me)and they are shaking in their boots together to find a way out of the hole they’ve spent so much time digging for themselves.
Is McCain still under the delusion that he has another shot?
ROFLMAO... I heard something today that just cracked me up.... if the balls don’t touch it isn’t gay..... Guess those guys in the GOP don’t have anything to worry about. I am so sick of their “Bi”-Partisanship. Have some bloody principles and NEVER CAVE IN ON THEM. Damn it, no one ever said being honorable would be EASY. Buck up campers! That’s my message to the GOP.
Sorry for the sicko reference.... it was funny tho....
Palin is bigger in the minds of the voters than republican
hasbeens.
Let’s go Sarah!
Bide your time, build your org
Pace yourself, we are waiting.
He asked, was “the issue on the most beautiful people or the most influential people?”
What a moron!
Gov. Palin’s appeal, in significant part, was that she was reputed to be an anti-etablishment “pit bull” who would run against these GOP oligarchs.
She hasn’t done so, at least not yet. But, imo, the conservative outsider who has the courage to call out thesemiserable Washingtonians - wins the prize.
Vin
Do you believe if Palin was at the top of the ticket, she would have beaten Obama?
Not one of them can deliver a decent stump speech. Not one of them has a single idea not hold by Nelson Rockefeller fifty years ago.
media sowing discontent and infighting in the republican party. Its just media hyping little difference and exaggerating criticism. Don’t be quick to believe in media quotes of what so-and-so said
McCain is an enemy of all conservatives and Romney is hot on his heals. These milquetoast mamby pambys are trying to prevent conservatives from taking over the Republican party. If they prevail, it's all over. They are not has-been losers, they are powerful, active enemies.
The GOP is through! Washed Up! Totally without leadership! IOW a complete bust!
I don’t. The Bush induced financial collapse sank the Republican ticket. Still, Obama would have looked like the cold fish he is if he had had to debate her face to face.
Seems like a case of “Palin Distress Syndrome”.
If Sen Snowe or Collin had Palin’s looks, the establishment wouldn’t mind. Palin’s problem, from their perspective, is that she isn’t a blue-blood. She went to a public university, isn’t the daughter of a politician, and doesn’t owe them anything.
I don’t know if I want Palin as our nominee in 2012 - but I’m sure not impressed by anyone else at this point. This ‘We Hate Conservatives’ Tour sure isn’t going to win them votes...
In 1996, when Senator William Cohen announced his retirement, Collins announced her Senate candidacy. After a difficult three-way primary, she defeated Democrat Joe Brennan in the general election with 49% of the vote to Brennan’s 44%.”
In 1988, she worked as a sports reporter for KTUU-TV and KTVA-TV in Anchorage, and for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman as a sports reporter. She also helped in her husband’s commercial fishing family business.
Nov 12 2008, why would that date stand out. Get lost mole.
Pray for America
These pompous knuckleheads would be wise to promote someone with personality and ideas. Nothing has hurt the GOP any more than the drab personalities and almost embarrassingly poor communication skills of GHWB, W and Juan McCain. It matters, and to hear those clowns dismissing the importance of personality and communication skills is a guarantee that the party is very unlikely to be led back to a strong position by them.
Nothing encouraging about the pow wows of this bunch.
Now, conservative leaders that is a whole different story, and, that too is sad. It does not appear that Republican “leadership” is going to allow conservatives to take the helm.
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Don’t you think that with the reaction coming from the public right now that anyone considering the GOP run for the next election might lean more toward the conservative side? I think, for example, Romney...during his campaign we heard his views...well what’s to say that they have changed? I think he might be awesome for the economy, but I don’t see him getting in with the other issues. I don’t think people would believe him if he tried to come off as conservative now...
Yep, this is the Rockefeller/George Romney wing fighting for control all over again.
“Don’t you think that with the reaction coming from the public right now that anyone considering the GOP run for the next election might lean more toward the conservative side?”
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Certainly.
Any thing but a bold and strong move to the right would be suicide for the GOP.
My point was, that I don’t have confidence that the leadership of the Republican Party is going to allow that to happen.
And if the GOP picks Romney for their candidate next election, will conservatives in America FINALLY get the picture and leave the Republican party????
"The rewards for joining the political class cannot be beaten any place in the economy, except in the entertainment and sports fields, where chances of succeeding are slim. What to do? get a degree in political science, or law, volunteer licking envelopes and making cold calls at your congresscritter's office, and you're on your way. Once in, you're never out!
We think we kicked out Tom Daschle from the political class. How many $ millions did we learn he had earned since that event? All from having been a member (and still being a member) of the political class. All of the faces in the White House today have a unwritten guarantee not to have to work for the rest of their lives after they leave. TV, publishers are waiting. Not bad, huh?
That's why the smart parents of girls like Monica and Chandra do the best to ensure not their daughters' best education, but their best chances to become c___suckers of politicians in Washington even at the risk of losing their lives. It's a racket and so many play the game. No sympathy here for the parents of Monica and Chandra."
Yes I understood that. Well stated!
I guess all we have to hope for is getting different bodies in those seats come the 2010 elections.
Maybe?
“And if the GOP picks Romney for their candidate next election, will conservatives in America FINALLY get the picture and leave the Republican party????”
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How does that great Eagles song go?
Me....I’m already gone...
Ping! Ping!
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