Posted on 08/09/2012 4:44:28 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
RedState’s Erick Erickson tweeted this could be the moment when Mitt Romney lost the election.
In an interview of Fox News, Romney Press Secretary Andrea Saul decided to invoke Romneycare as a counterpoint to the despicable narrative being pushed by Priorities USA. I’m sure you’ve seen the infamous ‘cancer ad.’ Business Insider reported on August 8th that:
…In defending Romney, she [Saul] veered way off message, explaining that if the steelworker, Joe Soptic, had lived in Massachusetts, he and his wife would have been able to get health insurance under Romney’s health-care reform legislation.
Here’s what she told Fox anchor Bill Hemmer, via Think Progress [gag]:
ANDREA SAUL: To that point, you know, if people had been in Massachusetts under Governor Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care. There are a lot of people losing their jobs and their health care in President Obama’s economy.
FACEPALM! Even Politico cited the ad as grossly inaccurate saying “it may also be relevant that Soptic’s wife died in 2006, years after the GST factory closed down. A 2006 story in the Kansas City Star reported the death of Ranae Soptic, a former champion roller skater: Soptic went to the hospital for pneumonia, but doctors found signs of very advanced cancer, and she died two weeks later on June 22.”
However, despite the ongoing crusade to discredit this piece of trash by the Obama team, Saul has undercut the effort. Smelling blood in the water, “Bill Burton, a strategist for Priorities USA, said he’s as stunned as anyone that [Saul] would invoke Romney’s support for individual mandates, particularly in a state that wasn’t Massachusetts. They’re clearly sputtering in response to very painful stories from workers who lost their jobs, their health care and their pension benefits, Burton said.”
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Coulter made the same observation. This seems to be standard Republican stuff, to keep the same losers.
She appears pretty weak on TV as does the head of the RNC. Look at Obama’s attack dog David Axel-hatchet. He just rips and rips Romney on those shows, as with Harry Reid. That side is fighting.
And Saul is getting orders from someone to stay positive anyway. That is why she did that. Coulter misses that. Its her man Romney not some clueless spokeswoman Mccain re-tread..
There wasn’t one McCain staffer worth spit, IMHO after that disgusting 08 campaign. I never, ever will forget McCain touting “you have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency”.
The McCain group is the one who pounced and degraded Palin. Now we need to do something at this GOP convention. We the People need to revolt and nominate someone else with some FIRE in his/her stomach. I am scared to death of the end of this great country and with the faux O in the White House - this country would be gone in 4 more years. We need a man’s man type of candidate with big brass ones!
I'm voting for him while holding my nose, because RomneyCare is still better than ObamaCare, but conservatives are screwed either way.
Hopefully, someone with real conservative values will run against Romney in four years. He's so weak though, Obama may win.
Sununu has been the most prolific Romney surrogate yet. How is it that this dolt is his spokesman instead of Sununu? Fire her today. Give Sununu the job. Done.
OMG that girl looks like a young Botox Pelosi BARFFFF!!!!
Well you are dreaming.
Romney won and now owns the party. (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus is very weak, not as bad as Steele is but who is? The RNC will trot out the RINOs like McCain at the convention. This is where we are.
Where is that Rodent Rove? He assured us over and over that Romney had an easy win.
There is one Republican that I am impressed with (no not Ryan) and it is Scott Walker, but it is not his time.
Yes of course I know I'm dreaming about the convention, but darn it, this is getting frightening and this election is Romney's to lose and he's starting to do a darn good job at it. That Andrea Saul MUST be fired along with 99% of his staff. Get more of the John Sununu types in there to stand up and FIGHT. Where is the passion, where is the fire in his stomach to win this? I just don't see it.
Do you think there might be some behind-closed-doors discussion among the GOPe even as we speak about how impossible a candidate Mitt is? Maybe not -- I suspect Obama's people are more aware of conservative discontent with Romney than the GOPe! They just don't know how to capitalize on it (or they're holding their fire until after the convention).
A local talk show host said the other day that Romney is running as "a non-ideological manager." Where I have heard that before? I know -- that was Dukakis' campaign for President! And we all know how that turned out . . .
I broke out of the mindset that all my hopes pin on the Republican party losers of today (Romney, McCain, McConnell, Boehner,Jeb bush, ....). I use the term 'Republicans' with contempt here now.
I am impressed with Walker, why would I want him tied to this set of loses? Let them have their RINO party.
If Romney loses then there is an open race in 2016 just time for someone like Walker. Who else do we have that takes on Democrats so boldly and doesnt flinch and wins? The others are the party of excuses.
Chairman Reince Priebus who I don't know well may be a good guy but he comes off as very weak on TV spokesman.
Send Saul back to the McCain campaign where she came from.
2016 is pretty far away and we have a president who will have a lot more flexibility in his second term. Ask Medvedev.
That doesnt change reality. That doesn't make Romney a winner. Lots of things are too bad.
I have a older relative with a real bad stroke, now bed and wheelchair ridden asuming he is lifted physically. That causes him and wife serious problems including financial, That doesn't allow him to walk again. Sometimes she would imagine it would, but that just cause more problems.
If it was me I would have said :” Obama spokesman Harry Reid is Bald face lying about Romney and Obama needs to call him off. This is a reflection on how deceitful the Obama campaign is”
You see?? Go for the nerve.
Priebus could try his lines out camming himself with his phone before trying Network TV.
Romney has no philosophical argument with anything because he has no philosophy. He does not contemplate "how things should be" nut only how to make the things that exist run more efficiently.
Romney cannot win but Obama can lose.
Some of us said from the beginning that Romney is the Democrats’ candidate for the Republican nomination.
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