Romney Book a Fitting Prelude to 2012 Presidential Run (BARF ALERT)

His supporters say the book will show Romney is more thoughtful than Sarah Palin.

Friends of Mitt Romney say his upcoming book, No Apology: The Case for American Greatness, is a lengthy and detailed explanation of his philosophy and should be a fitting prelude to a 2012 presidential campaign if Romney decides to run. The book, which comes out March 2, seems designed to position Romney as a thoughtful conservative who has ruminated carefully about the major issues of the day, ranging from the global economy to national security.

Romney supporters say it will serve as a conservative contrast to the views of President Obama but also will show Romney to be far more thoughtful than former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who is also considering a 2012 run. Her book, Going Rogue, is a bestseller, but it has apparently done little to improve her reputation as a thinker and a leader who can reach out beyond her conservative base and master the complicated challenges of national office.

Screenplay...

Scot Brown (as Harvey Dent)

Mitt Romney (as mobster)

Dent: Flips coin... “You’re a lucky man...” Flips coin... “He’s not...” Buckling up...

Mobster: “Who?”

Dent: “Your driver...”

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to (have their citizens and military suffer and) repeat it."
George Santayana

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
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, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "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."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,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."
These 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.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
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."

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?"

Poor sport spoiler Romney doing what he does best:

Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"

Said Novak: "The rumors were traced in part to Mitt Romney's campaign,
trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson."

"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]

SCREENPLAY:

Carpetbagger, death panel-imposing Mitt ("I marched with MLK") Romney:
"You will embrace these attacks on the GOP now, throwing the Election.
Create, then support, these attacks from our northern lands,
the media, and some of mine on the Obama team who will join you.
I will gain GOP favor by condemning the attacks and
ordering them opposed from our lands in the south.
Whichever way the tide runs, we will rise and be left standing. "

Oh, yes, Diogenesis could keep writing wonderful words like this:

To: Chet 99

Huckabee says what he wants in his own name.
Unlike GOP-traitor Mitt Romney's and his minions' knives fresh with the coppery smell of Gov.Palin's and her childrens' blood on them all done secretly, through junior staff's spouses.

143 posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 5:12:53 PM by Diogenesis

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2133719/posts?page=143#143

GOP_Lady, you still are reprehensible to post attacks
on FReepers without a 'ping', but since you work for
backstabber Romney, perhaps such subnormal behavior is to be expected.

It is strange, GOP_Lady that you still support the past
attacks by Team Romney against Gov. Palin and her children
even as the Romney attacks were made on the "night" of Election 2008.

Why are you still trying to cover that up those Romney attacks on Gov. Palin
using your endless baby whining about the use of poetic license?
How Romney is that? Whining. Crying. Never facts.
If you had any facts, you would have posted them.

Now that we know you are still trying to cover the backstabbing by TeamRomney,

the question is: That led to Obama. How is that working for you?

Bottom line. Here take these glasses.

"I only post to honest and responsible posters ...." My gosh, you must be the laughingstock of the law firm where you work! You sound like a pursed-lipped, indignant, holier-than-thou Old Maid first grade schoolteacher, easily shocked and outraged, who spends most of her time trying to discipline kids who run circles around her because she's out of her league.

You and your "responsible posters" -- responsible by whose standards? In whose eyes? Who, exactly, is going to be the one with the moxy and superior presumption to pronounce just who among us are "responsible" and who are not? Wait ... let me guess ... that would be YOU, right? I got news for ya, GOP Gal. I consider you one of the most IRRESPONSIBLE POSTERS on Free Republic because you REFUSE TO TAKE RESPONSIBLITY for putting yourself in the kitchen; you want the kitchen to take responsibility for the fact that it's too hot for you. If you can't stand the heat, get an asbestos apron or get out of the kitchen.

But you just want to boss people around and blame them for what is your responsibility; you act like a sheltered school marm. As long as you do this, you will be laughed at and pitied (as I'm certain you are at the law office that employs you), and FReepers will rightly be annoyed and insulted by you.

I repeat: YOU are the irresponsible poster.

"I think what Glenn said was that Pubs generally seem to go for the guy whose “turn” it is, like it was Bob Dole’s turn, or McCain’s turn, and this time they may think it’s Romney’s “turn”. It wasn’t an endorsement, he was hoping it wouldn’t happen."
Of course that it what he was saying. I thought it was quite obvious and cannot see how anyone who was paying attention could have taken that segment as an endorsement of Romney. He even said that this tendency to give the nomination to whoever's "turn" it is drives him crazy.

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