Sarah Palin rolling over Mitt Romney

The Boston Herald ^ | June 2, 2011 | Joe Battenfeld

[2ndDivisionVet]

Her strategy of not revealing the stops on her “one nation” tour? Crazy brilliant. Who needs a campaign kickoff when you can get a week’s worth of attention hiding on a bus.

Romney, meanwhile, will be lucky to get a few hours of the spotlight with the more traditional “I’m running for president” speech today. The former Massachusetts governor has been running for years, anyway, so it’s barely even news. The only news will be how much Palin disrupts Romney’s event by coming to New Hampshire at the same time.

Palin seems to understand what other candidates don’t right now. The 2012 campaign is going to be driven mostly by Internet buzz and social media, not scripted speeches and the network news.

Palin uses Twitter to communicate. Romney uses PowerPoint. I’m pretty sure Newt Gingrich still uses a slide projector.

The former Alaska governor also isn’t afraid to mix it up with her rivals, and the dreaded mainstream media. This strategy also ensures she will dominate the race, until or unless she gets out (and I don’t think she will).

Romney is polite, sometimes to a fault. The only way you can tell he’s angry is if his hair is a little mussed. He’s so formal, he thinks taking his tie off is crazy.

It should be interesting today.

With Palin in Boston and heading for the Granite State, it’s likely she will say something about Romney, and it probably won’t be to compliment his leadership on health care.

So Mitt might as well do something unexpected, like maybe call off his speech and visit with storm victims in Massachusetts.

That would really throw off Sarah.

But long term, there is a way for Romney to overcome the obsession with Sarah: Wait it out. He’s not going to outdazzle her, so his best hope for getting nominated is to let Palin and the others mess up (and they will).

If enough Republicans get scared off by Sarah, Newt and the rest, they will turn to good old reliable Mitt.

[4rcane]

if a liberal think mitt romney is reliable, then we should be worried

[truthfreedom]

There’s a difference between elitist and elite.

Elitist is a belief system. An elitist believes that someone who went to Harvard is smarter, and therefore a better candidate, than someone who went to a state school.

Elite is the person who went to Harvard.

There are more elitists than elites, and not all elites are necessarily elitist. You could be a Harvard grad who decided to be a farmer who likes small town life.

[MestaMachine]

“What constitues an elitist anyway?”

I dunno. Wut duz constitues mean?

[Psalm 144]

I hope she doesn’t get any Romney on her shoes . . .

[Diogenesis]

The author is an a$$hole and a liar.

Joe Battenfeld (RomneyBOT and ObamaBOT):
"Her strategy of not revealing the stops on her
“one nation” tour? Crazy brilliant.
Who needs a campaign kickoff
when you can get a week’s worth
of attention hiding on a bus."

Liar Battenfeld of the Boston Herald (RomneyBOT with Howie Carr)

has falsely reported she was in her van,
nowhere to be seen. With others in the Press,
Battenfeld (LIAR, Boston Herald) has fabricated that
she and Americans had created a "dangerous traffic situation
( their parlance for 'did not obey us and drop out for Mitt').

THE REAL DEAL -
With Battenfeld, the Press hid in their vans awaiting orders from the DNC,
Obama and Romney.

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Romney attacking Gov. Palin ---- for Obama in 2008

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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[MCF]

Well as things get worse for people that money will be a liability. It’s the monied Ivy Leaguers that brought us to this point and people know it.

[MCF]

Your correct, but people know the difference between hitting a home run and being walked in from third.

[Venturer]

I believe Mitt Romney will win the New Hampshire primary easily.

Those Yankees up there in their little piss-ant state are hardly Republicans and certainly not Conservatives.

Go haed Republicans stick to Romney and watch Obama win another 4 years.

[6SJ7]

This has got to be the first time I've ever heard of a Flip Flopper being called reliable.

He reliably flip-flops!

[who knows what evil?]

If enough Republicans get scared off by Sarah, Newt and the rest, they will turn to good old reliable Mitt.

ROTFLMAOPIMP!!! That's because only someone steeped in the intellectual resources of the almighty Northeast can save America now! You 'people' in the south and midwest just need to get with the program.

[who knows what evil?]

I believe Mitt Romney will win the New Hampshire primary easily.

Democrats will see to that in New Hampshire's 'open' primary. Not to mention all those Massachusetts and Maine voters...

[leprechaun9]

I don't understand why so many of the Financial Companies on Wall Street hired such a large group of high school dropouts.

Now if only they had hired some MBAs from the Ivy League Schools, then maybe our economy wouldn't be in such bad shape.

WHAT? They did hire MBAs from the Ivy League Schools! Then how could our economy be in such bad shape?

[Caipirabob]

The only way Milt gets the nomination is conservatives staying home and Democrats & lefty independents voting in our primaries.

A scary thought, however that is exactly what happened with mclame.

[9YearLurker]

Mitt could well win NH, but he only wins the nomination if conservatives split their votes with Cain and Bachmann as well.

[9YearLurker]

Announcing you are running for president isn’t news if you’ve spent the better part of your adult life preparing to do so, you’ve been campaigning for six years straight, and you announced you were going to announce weeks ago.

That is Mitt.

[arthurus]

Michelin lines look good on Mitt.

[spokeshave]

Her strategy of not revealing the stops on her “one nation” tour? Crazy brilliant

more than that....military strategy....think of the 300 at Thermopylae....holding back the might of the Persian army.

One lady in a bus heads off the Mitt juggernaut....and assorted presidential wannabes....next up de-rail 0bambi.

[Venturer]

It’s a sin that New Hampshire gets to put their primary on ahead of all others.

[who knows what evil?]

It’s a sin that New Hampshire gets to put their primary on ahead of all others.

Sure is, and I wish the national GOP would do something about it...like that's happening.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

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