Posted on 01/22/2012 4:33:13 PM PST by greyfoxx39
One of the things fellow Republicans and political observers have never liked about Mitt Romney is the wholesome piety he exhibits on the stump, while his hacks and PACs engage in some of the ugliest politics around. He can flash that plastic smile and pretend all he wants, but people know the cold fish doesn't shy away from the politics of personal destruction. If anything, his campaigns embrace it more than most, while feigning ignorance and pretending otherwise himself.
This is why so many people in the GOP have come to dislike Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney backer and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's comments this morning that Newt Gingrich "embarrassed" the Republican Party has the formerr House Speaker's Florida campaign co-chairman, Alan Levine, fuming.
"Far be it from me to tell the governor of New Jersey to focus on his own state, but this isn't a way to begin a campaign in Florida. It's disappointing," said Levine, a former healthcare chief under Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal who is new a private-sector hospital executive.
But now he's panicking because his South Carolina campaign has become a laughing stock. I've talked with some long-time operatives on the ground, in some cases, they've alienated more people than they've pulled in. There's also talk that his people in Florida are starting to panick, now, too.
Mitt Romney can use a legal facade to feign ignorance with his PAC problems. But he can't do that with his surrogates who come with faces and names. He could call, or call-out a Coulter, or Christie and ask them to stand down. But he won't. And even if he did, he wouldn't mean it.
His weak political skills are catching up to him. Unable to truly connect with voters, it now appears he's going to try and rely on some slash and burn surrogates to tear the other guy down.
It won't work. Ultimately, all this vitriol is going to circle back and make him all the more unlikeable to the base, something he already is to a good degree. If he keeps it up, this puppy, Mittens, is going down. The use of surrogates, not PACs for his ugly brand of politics, brings it just a bit too close to home for him to continue to hide it. Voters always reject real ugliness in politics. They'll reject both it and Mitt Romney this time around, too.
Ping
Romney on mandating health insurance for every citizen in America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCkFJqCzSW0
I am not surprised.
But Willard just looks SOOOOO Presidential that he couldn’t POSSIBLY stoop to getting his wrists dirty.
Mittens is despicable on his best day.
RE: “One of the things fellow Republicans and political observers have never liked about Mitt Romney is the wholesome piety he exhibits on the stump, while his hacks and PACs engage in some of the ugliest politics around.”
Exactly. Bingo. And raise your hand FReepers if you’ve been personally subjected to it from the 2008 primaries on.
Big’ol_freeper: Hand raised. Accused of being a “son of perdition” as one example.
Things seem to happen all the time around Willard. The Boy Scouts can’t show up at the Olympics in uniform, gay marriage becomes the law of the land, Catholic adoption agencies must do homosexual placements, Catholic hospitals must pass out The Morning After Pill to rape victims, assault weapons bills get signed, pink handbills get passed out at Pride parades, Planned Parenthood gets checks...none of it his fault or his doing.
Romney has bought 2.5 million dollars’ worth of ad in Florida, already playing; Newt, so far, none. Newt needs a serious ground effort, and Santorum is going to double team Newt with Romney, that’s what I have read...
I posted this before in this forum, but the mods took it away to bloggers’ forum. I hope it is okay to post it here:
As part of my neighborhood grassroots activity for Newt, we are planning to do a sticky-note tsunami in Florida with individual sticky-notes for different grocery items, and at the gas pumps.
For example, we would like to do stickies for specific items, like a loaf of bread, a dozen eggs, pasta, etc. and post them on the shelves where the products are located, with a very simple text, something along the lines: A Loaf of Bread, Obama Inauguration Day $___ ; Loaf of Bread today $___ . Newt Gingrich balanced the budget 4 times, passed welfare reform, helped Pres. Reagan create 11 million jobs. Vote for Newt. He knows how to fix things. www.newt.org
My problem is, I can’t find a listing of specific grocery retail prices ranging those years, just some general stuff on prices of corn, soybeans and stuff. I have looked and looked and looked, and I’ve have been unable to find a range for gas prices through those years, also. I was wondering if someone might have a link for these price fluctuations, for very specific, and very many grocery items.
Florida, you know, has many seniors, on very fixed incomes. Till now, we’ve had all of our attention focused on SC, but it is Sunday night already, and we can’t find this price information anywhere.
I know this probably doesn’t sound like a very sophisticated effort, but we like it, and it is something we do well – swarming. If anyone here could help us out, I would greatly appreciate it. We have all our sticky-notes bought, and people lined up, ready to write them out for us, we just need some good texts, and these prices. I would so appreciate any help the seasoned, wise, and prolific members of Free Republic could give us.
Thank you very much.
Romney’s dirtytricks are going to backfire big time. Silent Tea Party anger building up like a Tsunami ready to crush the Rhinos and Obama.
Ahh-cult! Ahh-cult!
(oh...sorry there...I got the sneezies, must be getting a cold)
Hopefully then he will climb back under his the seer stone he came from under like the the slimy white salamander that he is.
I know little about the the Olympics/Romney, except what lds tell you, he was almost divine in fixing the problems and other people saying, not so fast he didn’t do anything.
So when you say Romney prevented Boy Scouts from attending in uniform - WTH?
One example from 2008. A FReeper named reaganesque was outed as a paid Romney operative.
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