[iowamark]

“I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign,” Eric Fehrnstrom, a longtime adviser to Mr. Romney, said in response to a question about pivoting to a matchup with Mr. Obama and appealing to moderate swing voters. “Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch a Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.”

[SWAMPSNIPER]

"There will come a time when he needs to be a team player.”

Yeah, but will he be on the same team we are on?

[Diogenesis]

Team Player? Romney is the Team Backstabber.. and deserves HIS Karma.

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FLASHBACK:

The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++4 to 10 pts
in some polls, days prior to Election 2008.
So rather than helping the GOP, Romney and
TeamROMNEY and the RNME (Republican National Media Establishment)
decided …to attack Gov. Palin to throw Election2008.

Romney, and the Van der Sloot RNME RINOs 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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[PBRSTREETGANG]

[LibLieSlayer]

Progressives will tell you exactly what they are going to do... obama did many times... and the left think that unless THEY interpret their statements for conservatives... we are too stupid to comprehend their brilliance... **** the gop/e and **** mitt romney.

LLS

[DH]

Anyone who does not believe that Romney will not do (and say) anything to get elected is a fool.

What gives these spoiled rich people the amazing gift to be the only livestock capable of governing? What makes them smarter than the common prole? Why are people so attracted to liars and “flim-flam” types? Why do people vote blindly for a specific political party?

There a so many “why” questions but no logical answers.

Romney was picked by the GOP to run as “da boy” when he was only a gleam in his daddy’s eye. After he was born he was groomed for a charmed life and a more than good chance to eventually become president. It was a family political dream.

Every time I hear someone championing him, I am stupefied at the fact that that individual can’t relate Obamacare to Romneycare...and the man who invented it. How stupid can the general public be?

We are in “hollywood” mode now. The stars of the political season are now shining and the public is going wild at anyone being held up as the latest political movie star with the only requirement being that the media approves of them. The future of our country is based on a love affair with a beauty contest and nothing else.

What the hell has happened to our culture and society?

[MulberryDraw]

Is Romney a Nixon rerun, an Obama in sheep’s clothing or none of the above?

[monkapotamus]

[ncalburt]

What is your point in attacking Rick in the title ?
A big SO WHAT if. Rick has. It gone off the wall on this aides comments .

Rick is the only one left to stop Mittens .
Newt has been finished for awhile and needed to leave with class but he decided to be a bitter angry spoiler .

[chainsaw]

Will Romney become another Dole...McCain type candidate?

[NonValueAdded]

So now the truth is a gaffe, is it?

[3rdcoastislander]

This has been one of the worse campaigns I have seen run in a long time. It’s pathetic. By the time he gets to the primary Obama won’t even have to spend any money bashing him because he has done it himself, with the help of his own party Newt and Rick. Total disaster, not that I was going to vote for him anyway.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“Romney’s Day to Relish Is Marred by Aide’s Gaffe?”...

Who cares?...The big question is what to do about the “BIG Gaffe” in the White House?

[Condor51]

Forget the Etch-A-Sketch blurb. THIS is what scares the heck out of me......

“Now is the time for Republicans to unite behind Governor Romney and take our message of fiscal conservatism and job creation to all voters this fall,” Mr. Bush said..

Well exsqueeze me Mr Bush, but what about SOCIAL conservatism? Huh Mr OPEN BORDER, LATINO PANDERING, AMNESTY PUSHER. Where's your boy Mittens stand on THAT?!?!

Should we look to who he put on the Taxachusetts Bench as governor? A bunch of constitution following conservatives, right Jeb? Or on the 2nd Amendment -- Mitten's is a life long NRA member and: gun owning - hunter - target shooter - firearm collector - Stand Your Ground - concealed carry 'gun nut' - kind of guy, correct? And that Mittens is a firm believer in peoples freedoms and doesn't think believe that Gubmint Mandates of ANY KIND are constitutional, and is basically UN-AMERICAN, no?

Huh? What's that Mr: 'John Ellis Pierce Bush'. No you say, to all of that 'stuff'? You mean Mittens appointed LIBERAL JUDGES. He IS in favor of an Assault Weapon Ban and really isn't that big on that whole 2A Rights thingy. And that yes he believes that 'the G' can dictate what people MUST DO, 'for the greater good'.

Wow 'Jeb' (I may cal you Jeb, right?), now those are real shockers. Sounds to me like your boy Mittens is really .... a LIBERAL! .... you blithering numb-skull.

an aside Señor Arbusto. One cannot be a 'fiscal conservative' unless one is also a 'social conservative'. Or in simple Inglés -- A Conservative, period. As liberal social policies or, 'compassionate conservatism'(/s), COSTS TAXPAYERS MONEY! And that, Buster, ain't 'Fiscally Conservative'.

[/Rant]