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Some Republican leaders prefer not to discuss Sarah Palin [Romney "laughing and smiling"] [McCain]
Politico ^ | 2009-05-03 | Jonathan Martin

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 ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2008veep; cantor; gop; mcbama; mccain; mccaintruthfile; mcqueeg; mcromney; nc4na; obsessed; palin; palinbashing; pathological; rebuilding; rino; rinoalert; rinoparty; romney; romneytruthfile; sarahpalin; slickwillard
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To: rabscuttle385
Former Gov. Jeb Bush, who is also playing a prominent role in the Council, similarly said to POLITICO Saturday after the group's launch in Arlington, Va., that the group hopes “to make the next election about ideas and not about personalities.”

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.

41 posted on 05/03/2009 9:07:05 PM PDT by Will88
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To: EyeGuy

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...


42 posted on 05/03/2009 9:08:19 PM PDT by Atom Smasher
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To: Prokopton

Yep, this is the Rockefeller/George Romney wing fighting for control all over again.


43 posted on 05/03/2009 9:11:20 PM PDT by ellery (It's a free country.)
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To: Atom Smasher

“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.


44 posted on 05/03/2009 9:12:04 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: SandWMan

And if the GOP picks Romney for their candidate next election, will conservatives in America FINALLY get the picture and leave the Republican party????


45 posted on 05/03/2009 9:14:24 PM PDT by SandWMan (Even if you can't legislate morality, you can legislate morally.)
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To: EyeGuy

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?


47 posted on 05/03/2009 9:15:30 PM PDT by Atom Smasher
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To: RobbyS
Fakery and chicanery is blatantly obvious among these fools. They're so enamored with themselves and wrapped up in their lust with power and the perks that come along with it, that they're blind to the genuine appeal that Sarah has to conservatives. She's...real.
48 posted on 05/03/2009 9:15:34 PM PDT by Semper Mark (Welcome to the revolution.)
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To: SandWMan

“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...


49 posted on 05/03/2009 9:16:29 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: wolf24

Ping! Ping!


50 posted on 05/03/2009 9:17:32 PM PDT by Atom Smasher
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To: rabscuttle385
“She’s bigger in the media than in reality,” lamented GOP consultant Mike Murphy, a longtime friend and adviser to John McCain.

We'll just see about that when SarahPAC makes its first quarterly report, oh yes we will.

51 posted on 05/03/2009 9:18:48 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: BobL
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.

Glad to have you back on board. Even if you think she's unelectable, it's plain she shares our values, and SarahPAC will be a kingmaker for decades to come.

52 posted on 05/03/2009 9:20:39 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: Atom Smasher

Though it doesn’t seem likely at this point, MUCH stranger things have happened, and in shorter periods of time.

The GOP would be wise to look at the implications suggested by the groundswell of grassroots disatisfaction via the Tea Party phenomenon, and the absolutely electrifying political presence inherent in one Sarah Palin.


53 posted on 05/03/2009 9:21:13 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: bray

hmmm

I think you mean October 12...


54 posted on 05/03/2009 9:21:44 PM PDT by Air Force Brat
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To: rabscuttle385
attention which, in Palin’s case, is widely seen as a product largely of her good looks and tabloid-fodder family troubles.

Just shows how clueless they are. Sarah Palin was popular with the Republican base, and because of that, the MSM began to concentrate on her looks and her family, as a way to diminish her.

55 posted on 05/03/2009 9:22:43 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: rabscuttle385

Secretariat Romney and the “party elites” can go straight to hell. And they can take their National Council for a New America and their new five year plans with them.


56 posted on 05/03/2009 9:23:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: EyeGuy

“The GOP would be wise to look at the implications suggested by the groundswell of grassroots disatisfaction via the Tea Party phenomenon, and the absolutely electrifying political presence inherent in one Sarah Palin.”

The Tea Partly Phenomenon is a steam roller headed for both parties with Sarah Palin in the drivers seat.

The GOP will never see it coming.


58 posted on 05/03/2009 9:30:52 PM PDT by Balata
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To: bray

That post made no sense.


59 posted on 05/03/2009 9:30:57 PM PDT by Arguendo
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To: rabscuttle385

Romney is a Rockefeller (ptooo!) Republican. Never get my vote.


60 posted on 05/03/2009 9:33:59 PM PDT by pankot
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