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Andrea Mitchell Scolds Romney For Negative Super PAC Ads
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 12/30/2011 11:22:42 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Has Andrea Mitchell appointed herself hall monitor of the 2012 elections? On her MSNBC show today, Mitchell asked Mitt Romney whether he had "an apology to make to the voters" for the negative ads against Newt Gingrich being run by Romney-friendly Super PACs.

For good measure, Mitchell scolded: "is that the kind of campaign you want to run: a negative campaign?"

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: andreamitchell; mittromney; negativeads; superpacs

1 posted on 12/30/2011 11:22:47 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Andrea Mitchell scolds Romney for negative Super PAC ads. Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 12/30/2011 11:24:02 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Mitchell has a lot of room to talk after what she and her commie comrades did to Sarah Palin and her family. Hypocrite.


3 posted on 12/30/2011 11:27:18 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Stop BIG Government Greed!!!!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Thank you, Ms. Mitchell. I only wish the conservative media would take Willard Mitt Romney to task for his negative campaign against conservatives when he can’t bring himself to call Obama a socialist.


4 posted on 12/30/2011 11:29:04 AM PST by Timaeus (I will vote for any GOP nominee but Willard Mitt Romney)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Screw Andrea!

It’s time for Newt going forward to open up a can on Willard Flopney.


5 posted on 12/30/2011 11:29:52 AM PST by CainConservative ( Newt/Rubio 2012 with Cain, Bolton, Santorum, Perry, Watts, Duncan, & Bachmann in Newt's Cabinet)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Looks like the media has decided Romney is their main target again.


6 posted on 12/30/2011 11:33:25 AM PST by ozzymandus
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Nobody says “Andrea Mitchell” like Rush Limbaugh. LOL you ditto heads will know what I’m talking about.


7 posted on 12/30/2011 11:39:18 AM PST by fish hawk (bottom line: I'm voting for WHOEVER wins the republican nomination)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If Romney wanted to show Ms. Mitchell what a “negative” campaign was really like he’d reply with a Home Depot gift certificate for 100-grit sandpaper and a years’ worth of free dermabrasion sessions.


8 posted on 12/30/2011 11:39:24 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Andrea Mitchell is truly revolting. I can’t watch any program where she shows her haggard face.

It’s clear what’s going on here. Mitchell has identified Romney as Obama’s opponent. She wants to pin Romney down to running a strictly positive campaign to keep him from attacking Obama. If Mitchell gets the appropriate concession, it will be trotted out and played back, should Romney dare go negative on Obama.


9 posted on 12/30/2011 11:39:31 AM PST by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
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To: ozzymandus

I wish Iowa voters would wake up and see how cowardly this Mitt Romney really is. Are Iowans really going to let him buy this nomination. Geez


10 posted on 12/30/2011 11:39:56 AM PST by david1313 (Newt all the way)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Interesting questioning coming from Andrea Mitchell. I would be interested to know what this is all about as she is a big time lib and supporter of George Soros. IMHO it is not the type of question I would expect her to ask Mitt.


11 posted on 12/30/2011 11:46:33 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: brownsfan

There is every reason to believe that Mitchell is on the DNC payroll.

She doesn’t even pretend objectivity. My respect for Romney would go way up if he took on media types who spew the DNC line. Gingrich did for awhile and his numbers went through the roof.


12 posted on 12/30/2011 11:56:43 AM PST by kjo
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Mitchell scolded: “is that the kind of campaign you want to run: a negative campaign?”

Romney replied: “let me start by saying FUAM, and everybody who looks like you.”


13 posted on 12/30/2011 12:04:03 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (let establishment heads explode)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

And always the damn smirk on his face when someone is talking to him. The same smugg smirk he has on his face anytime anyone asks him a hard question. I’d like to see somebody knock that shyt eating smirk off his face. I get nauseated just looking at this creep.


14 posted on 12/30/2011 12:38:58 PM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

LOL!

Mitchell nails Mittens with the question and Myth changes the subject to New Hampshire.


15 posted on 12/30/2011 12:50:02 PM PST by upchuck (Let's have the Revolution NOW before we get dumbed down to the point that we can't.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Andrea Mitchell: “WE alone have monopoly on attacking GOP conservative candidates.”


Romney 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."


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.


"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."


"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."


"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?"



16 posted on 12/30/2011 4:15:01 PM PST by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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