‘Where’s Mitt?’

National Review Online ^ | 10/28/08 | Kathryn Jean Lopez

[Diogenesis]

What is it with you people that you have to claim that everyone ‘hates’ Mitt Romney?

Did not post what you falsely claim.
And how could it be "everyone", anyway?
Those on their kneepads, beneath their Master, love Romney.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Yeah, but one can’t help but think of the underhanded tactics that were used in the primaries, combined with the obvious animosity that many of the hard-core Mitt supporters have towards Sarah Palin.

The allegations may well be completely unfounded, but honestly, after dealing with Mitt’s more fervent supporters here at FR, I don’t find them hard to believe at all.

[MBB1984]

It truly is bizarre and irrational. These demagogues are truly obsessed with hatred for Romney. If McCain loses, you can guarantee that the Romney haters will blame Romney as being the primary cause of McCain's defeat, despite all of Romney's extensive efforts on McCain's behalf.

[GOP_Lady]

He stepped out of the race for John McCain and the GOP, has been raising money with his PAC, has been campaigning/fund raising, and has been doing TV/radio interviews. What more must he do? I know you realize it, but how could people not see this.

[auto power]

Thanks for clearing that up...much appreciated.

[Petronski]

Where’s Mitt?

Biding his time, playing the same hand dealt to Hillary Clinton by the other party: feign support but do the barest minimum and hope for the worst.

At this moment in history, the worst for America is the best for Slick Willard.

[GOP_Lady]

Well, John McCain has said that Mitt Romney will be “at his side in January.” Let's hope McCain/Palin wins. No doubt, that Mr. Romney will assist in any way he can.

[RJS1950]

Not at all. He is and always has been a Rino. I don’t care what religion he follows or if he follows none at all. I don’t care that he has money other than if it is legally/fairly gained. What I do care about are his words, actions and political viewpoint over the period of years and from what I could see he tailored his image and message to be more conservative when the primaries came around and it appeared that was what the conservatives were looking for. The big exercise of the various big dogs circling the hydrant and nipping at each other over who would piss on the hydrant is how we ended up with McCain (a weak candidate) against the socialist nazi POS with his election-stealing apparatus already well entrenched. He’s ignoring McCain-Palin out of spite, envy or whatever much as the clintons are pretty cool to helping BO.

[Petronski]

Isn’t K. Lopez the same writer for NR who ridiculed Sarah Palin as VP and asked that she step down from the campaign??

You're thinking of Kathleen Parker [spit], whose column runs on NRO.

K-Lo is most loyal to Palin/McCain, and quite admirably so.

[Diogenesis]

ROMNEY ANTI-PALIN

"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 ant-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."

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Romney's behind the scenes attack on Gov. Palin.

"Almost every critical remark made about Palin
on a recent briefing call about her selection came from political consultants
with ties to Romney. Those comments were planted, says one,
because they knew that reporters would be on the call."
[Washington Prowler, American Spectator, Storm Center, 9/2/2008]

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Romney's attacks on other GOP candidates.

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

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

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Romney's attacks on other GOP candidates.

"....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]

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Romney's refusal to help GOP candidates in Massachusetts.

"The most glaring oversight was Romney's refusal to do a phone recording
for Massachusetts Republican Jeff Beatty, who is challenging Sen. John Kerry.
"Mitt supposedly cares about Massachusetts, but won't even return phone calls asking for help,"
says a conservative working for Beatty in Boston.
"It's a tough race, but the least he could do is help.
He's showing his true colors."

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More Palin attacks.

"When I was in St. Paul for the Republican Convention,
more than a dozen people told me acolytes of Mitt Romney
were feeding all the stories to the media portraying Palin in a negative light.
In fact, I heard that one of the biggest pushers of anti-Palin stories,
including encouraging reporters to pursue
the "Trooper-gate" story was Romney spokesman Kevin Madden."

[GOP_Lady]

Those are the last two people that I would think of. Wow.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Oh, yes, EVERYONE doesn’t ‘hate’ Mitt Romney because ‘everyone’ would include you and your merry band of slobbering Mittwits who prey to the altar of Willard.

It’s just everyone who tells the truth about Mitt’s record that ‘hates’ him.

I don’t ‘hate’ Mitt Romney any more than I ‘hate’ a used car salesman. And I trust the used car salesman more than I trust Mitt.

[Diogenesis]

You must have me mixed up with someone else, FRiend.

[mwl8787]

Reagan was accused of not helping Jerry Ford in 76 and that was a lie, too.

If anyone saw the post-debate TV segments this fall, Mitt was sensational - did a better job for McCain than McCain did himself.

For the record in 76, the Ford people asked for last minute additional help from Reagan and he was previously committed to help other GOP Congressional and gubernatorial candidates. Mike Deaver begged the Ford people to lay out in August what they needed from Reagan; the Ford people either wouldn’t or couldn’t.

Romney does not deserve this antipathy.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

LOL...see, even they think he’s a RAT! :D

[svcw]

Mitt’s been all over the place, supporting the ticket, and the rumors are absolute LIES. The rumors are lies - what that he has been all over the place?

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Mitt Romney is to Ronald Reagan what a pile of dung is to a bar of pure gold.

Nobody wants to hear your pathetic attempts to turn a slimy, flip-flopping, medicine socializing, gay pandering, lawyer consulting, fast talking, Grecian Formula addict into Ronald Reagan.

The comparison is offensive.

[svcw]

Class envy? I find it interesting that only rabid MR supporters bring up religion or class envy in the first posts or any story posted.Then we are off.....

[mrsmith]

His future is being destroyed because he's being portrayed by the media as an enemy of Governor Palin.
I don't say 'destroyed' lightly. The media is making him enemies that will never, ever forgive.

I confess I don't know how he can counter this smear campaign. But he's the professional politician. If he wants to stay one he better show that he knows his future is on the line and that he's capable of beating this.

[Reaganesque]

But how much of the Palin bashing is Kevin trying to fit in and suck up to his new masters? Maybe he's just killing two birds with one stone: sabotage Palin to help him get back on the Romney train in 2012 if he thinks Obama is going to win and make himself palatable in an all blue Washington. Still, so much for loyalties, etc.

"How much?" "If?" "Maybe?" Speculation presented as fact. How is that any different from what the Left is doing to us?