Video: It wasn’t Romney aides spreading Palin rumors, reporter says
posted at 9:45 am on November 8, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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With the gossipy attacks on Sarah Palin spreading, people have asked:cui bono? Who benefits from tearing down Palin at the end of this campaign? Some have speculated that Mitt Romney benefits in 2012 from having Palin sidelined, and that aides from his campaign that worked for John McCain might be behind the attacks. Not so, says Katie Connolly of Newsweek, where most of those attacks got reported:
Mike Galanos, CNN: Katie, a report I read, help me out here on this one, Im not sure if you heard this, there was some Romney aides that now came into the McCain campaign and it was the Romney aides that began spreading the dirt about Sarah Palin and basically in a fight already to see who is going to lead the party in the future. Any truth to that?
Katie Connolly, Newsweek: Absolutely not. Not from what I know. I think that’s completely false.
The Romney explanation didn’t make that much sense anyway. When Romney attacked, he did so above board. Mike Huckabee got incensed not because of a whispering campaign but because Romney threw punches in negative ads on television.
Which still leave us with the question — cui bono? No one that has the long-term interests of the party in mind, certainly.
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So, we’re supposed to believe unsupported reports of where unsupported reports by unknown alleged people originated.
Otay!
corona on November 8, 2008 at 9:50 AM
Huckabee?
jnelchef on November 8, 2008 at 9:51 AM
cui bono? The media obviously. Just like the ‘kill him’ comments nobody heard but the reporter, the media types are just using themselves are resources, then saying ’someone said …’ and the papers keep selling
Rasputin on November 8, 2008 at 9:55 AM
You do know who this helps, right?
Mitt Romney, of course.
(Someone had to)
PimFortuynsGhost on November 8, 2008 at 9:57 AM
i personally don’t care who “smeared” palin. this is a jon benet story.
eh on November 8, 2008 at 9:57 AM
It’s probably people who don’t want to be associated with a losing campaign. Blame it all on Palin so they can get hired in future campaigns
lodge on November 8, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Two things come to mind: first, more astro-turfing by David Axelrod to take a wounded Republican Party and push it further into cannibalistic disarray, while also weakening the person who at this point seems the most likely challenger to Obama in 2012.
Or, it’s more cover-their-arse disinformation from the likes of Wallace and Schmidt, who, seeing the enormous popularity Sarah Palin retains with outside-the-Beltway Republicans, are trying to make sure the backlash for this backstabbing falls on someone else, not them. Hence they try to tar Romney. (None of whose aides occupied senior positions with the McCain campaign, I think.)
I lean more towards the second.
irishspy on November 8, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Give us the names and we will check them out. I would also point out that none of Romney’s people have stepped forward and denied it was them and stated who were the people conducting the smear campaign.
I have no reason to believe Romney’s people were not behind this. I will not support Romney or anyone associated with him in the future and urge as many people as possible to do the same.
It is ridiculous that this has gone on as long as it has without anyone quashing it and making the guilty pay for what they did.
Blake on November 8, 2008 at 9:58 AM
What kind of idiot reporter would believe Axelrod about what happened inside the Palin campaign? Oh, wait!
Blake on November 8, 2008 at 10:00 AM
I look at the content of the smear: she’s stupid.
That has democrat stench all over it. Democrats pride themselves on what they mistakenly believe is their superior intelligence. And when they get the vapors over a candidate who scares them, democrats always play the I.Q. card.
It’s a law of nature.
jeff_from_mpls on November 8, 2008 at 10:01 AM
Notice the crawler at the bottom. I’ve noticed as of late networks use it to say things that I suppose they don’t want their reporters actually being quoted as saying.
Whack job now huh?
Must be just peachy to get scooped up into a national media firestorm against you, your family, your church and your principles and then have the people that asked you to do it send in the fire plane loaded with gasoline.
hawkdriver on November 8, 2008 at 10:01 AM
How about this — the media folks made this stuff up all by themselves.
johnsteele on November 8, 2008 at 10:03 AM
I thought the principle was “innocent until proven guilty.” Until someone can show Romney people were the ones spreading scurrilous rumors, we should give him the benefit of the doubt.
irishspy on November 8, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Perhaps this person(s) just let their jealousy or dislike of Palin over ride any clear thought about their future they could have had.
abinitioadinfinitum on November 8, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Katie doesn’t know much. I think she is trying to keep this story going the more it’s out there the more she thinks she can ruin our Sarah.
Brat4life on November 8, 2008 at 10:03 AM
All I know is that Greta’s on the case. When she’s not doing some stupid show about some crime in the headlines she is really good. She questions some of these dolts like a prosecutor or a trial lawyer. And she seems to be Sarah Palin’s #1 fan lately. She’s turning out to be the best one on FOX. O’Reilly is a horse’s ass, lately I’ve been switching over to watch SpongeBob when he comes on.
Jeff on November 8, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Actually, it’s not just democrats who call their enemies “stupid.”
Loser-tarians are huge on the I.Q. superiority thing.
Reading libertarian commentary is sort of like reading Hegel. All the sentences are correctly structured, and it looks like something meaningful is being said. Yet you dig, and you dig, and there’s nothing underneath.
jeff_from_mpls on November 8, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Well, if someone here said it was Axelrod astroturfing to put the Republican party into complete meltdown, I’d have to say it’s working.
ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. Axelrod smiles 4 years out from the next election.
hawkdriver on November 8, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Turn out the lights, the party’s over.
Time for the American Conservative Party.
digitalintrigue on November 8, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Not saying Huckabee is behind it, but it wouldn’t be surprising. Whisper campaigns are his style and he has certainly never demonstrated much concern for the future of the party versus his own self-interest.
JA on November 8, 2008 at 10:11 AM
Proly Obamatons plants!
grapeknutz on November 8, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Huckabee without a doubt. Palin most directly overlaps with his base and is therefore a huge threat. He has also shown himself to be self-interested and slimey enough to do this kind of thing in the past (e.g. “Jesus and Satan are brothers,” Ed Rollins’s bag of tricks, holding a press conference about the negative ad he’s not going to show but he’ll show it just once to “prove he actually made one,” the list goes on…)
The Principal Chair on November 8, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Please don’t tell me we’re still touting Romney as the savior of the GOP. Like he’s the only guy in that party who knows jack about the economy. This is the kind of “country club Republican” mentality from the East Coast establishment, that cost McCain the election to begin with.
We tried the “big tent” approach. It failed five days ago, and some people already can’t remember.
Yikes!
manwithblackhat on November 8, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Like I already said, none of the Romney people are stepping up and denying it and saying who did do it or providing a list of names of the aides that had contact with Palin.
Blake on November 8, 2008 at 10:19 AM
My first thought was a Devil-Wears-Prada-like opportunist. Book deal, prestigious new job or some other personal gain.
My second thought was overblown CYA on the part of someone who wants to retain his/her status as a campaign guru in the future.
Third thought: petty jealousy, desire for personal revenge for some perceived slight. Don’t know which if any of these will turn out to be accurate.
Gilda on November 8, 2008 at 10:19 AM
McCain. Nothing but crickets from him, and no one can convince me he ever had the interests of the party in mind
IrishEi on November 8, 2008 at 10:21 AM
The MSM is starting the relection campaign already….going to be a long long 4 years
Ditkaca on November 8, 2008 at 10:21 AM
And your evidence for Romney or his staff is what, exactly?
sloopy on November 8, 2008 at 10:24 AM
No. The principle of innocent until proven guilty only applies to the jury in a criminal trial. If the Romney people are not behind this, then they can step forward and publicly say so. They can also say who the people are who are doing this or at the minimum provide a list of names of the people in the campaign. Otherwise, I have no reason to not believe they are behind this and I will keep saying so.
Blake on November 8, 2008 at 10:24 AM
I’d prefer that McCain had defended Palin on this but the nature of the statements indicates that they came from staffers, not the candidate.
It wouldn’t have been McCain in the situations (however erroneously) described – in Palin’s hotel room, doing debate prep, grilling on policy. He would’ve been too busy doing other things.
Gilda on November 8, 2008 at 10:27 AM
Great, I’m just saying with 4 years to go, thats a pretty stern comment and quite a portent of things to come from us as a voting block.
I think I’ll lay my ire on the folks that gain the absolute most from this; the MSM who hated her from the beginning and appears to not be satisfied until she is completely destroyed. Want supposition, I’ll give you some. B Hussein Obama Pres-elect emeritus all glowing has to be furious with things she said on the trail about him. He destroyed Joe the Plumber. What makes you less inclined to suspect The King of Smear?
Purxactly!
hawkdriver on November 8, 2008 at 10:29 AM
McCain needs to speak out on this. So does Romney. Just to alientate these losers who are doing this.
Mr. Joe on November 8, 2008 at 10:31 AM
Romney Derangement Syndrom.
Disturb the Universe on November 8, 2008 at 10:31 AM
Ambinder says essentially the same thing here.
Attempts were made to smear Mitt during the primaries by blaming him for all sorts of things he was not responsible for either
Cui bono? Huckabee and The Democrat Party. They are not aligned, but have the same goal, which is to destroy Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney.
Buy Danish on November 8, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee are stale and never going to get the college-age vote. It’s time to look at the election results and who voted. They stayed at home before, but now, they’re hee-eee-eer.
Marcus on November 8, 2008 at 10:33 AM
I agree that these leaks didn’t come directly from McCain’s mouth, but I can believe that he encouraged them, and he has done nothing to refute them.
IrishEi on November 8, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Sarah Palin is the only reason I held my nose and voted for the grumpy old man. It even energized my wife to the point that she finally agreed to register and vote in this election cycle. She swore she never would again after here vote was overturned by a Federal judge when we were stationed in the People’s Republic of California.
When these mouthpieces attack Sarah and her family they attack almost every single decent conservative in this country. She is an intelligent strong woman that is anything, but the self hating shrews in the liberal camp. If these stories really do come from the RINO staffers it is just another indication of how threatened these girlie men are by a real conservative that walks the talk when it comes to her values instead of reaching across the aisle to only pull back a bloody stump. Another reason we consider ourselves independent conservatives and will never give or support the dying GOP.
May the balance sheets of the liberal MSM continue to bleed red eventually driving most into bankruptcy. A guy can dream!
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
Retired USAF on November 8, 2008 at 10:36 AM
And I will not be satisfied that the Irish Republican Army is not behind this until Gerry Adams personally steps forward and publicly says they are not.
Look, all kidding aside, maybe the Romney people or he himself just think its just so ridiculous they don’t want to qualify it with a remark. I don’t know, but we really are like a dog chasing his tail now.
hawkdriver on November 8, 2008 at 10:37 AM
People are wasting too much time on this Palin who-dunnit-to-who.
The liberal press want to keep it in the news to totally destroy Palin so she does not reappear in national politics.
Plus they have to fill the news and they don’t want to be criticizing the One.
Since 1932, no number 2 on the number 2 Presidential election ticket has ever come back to be the nominee for President in a future election cycle. The losing VP-candidate on the losing team is never chosen to be the party’s future Presidential nominee. A person gets one chance at the top 2 jobs – if they don’t win, then the country moves on to new faces.
Four years is a long time in politics – who would have guessed 4 years ago Obama would be President today?
If I was Palin and wanted to stay in politics I would be angling for the next Senate seat up for grabs in Alaska.
albill on November 8, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Using Sarah as a news story is going to be very successful for the media. It will always be the fall back story so they won’t have to professionally cover the multitude of errors Obama is bound to make.
sherry on November 8, 2008 at 10:38 AM
We know he’s done nothing personally and directly to refute them. It would be hard for me to believe he encouraged them without some evidence, because ultimately these leaks have damaged him considerably by questioning his choice of Palin.
I see no clear advantage to McCain in this right now and don’t want to smear a lifelong public servant without solid reason.
Gilda on November 8, 2008 at 10:39 AM
It’s the Romney folks.
Just read comments about Sarah from the Mitt-en who have been posting on every GOP site since BEFORE the primaries.
They obviously believe that the ONLY way up for Mitt is to clear the way by knee-cappin’ ALL his opponents.
Allah, Ed I don’t know why Hotair is always in Mitt’s corner, but he will NEVER be President- All he’ll do is keep us from ever winning with a strong conservative.
ExTex on November 8, 2008 at 10:40 AM
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/general/view.bg?articleid=1130852
Mitt Romney: I’m no back stabber
Aides blast accusations, not from Mitt camp
Mitt Romney’s camp is firing back at reports his foot soldiers are behind a brutal smear campaign against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in a backdoor strategy to position the former Bay State governor for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.
“It’s a completely absurd allegation that is totally divorced from the truth,” Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said.
JA on November 8, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Hey Blake, when did you stop beating your wife?
Buy Danish on November 8, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Sure keeps the media from worrying about stupid stuff like…
Where did all that campaign cash come from…
Who did that campaign cash come from…
How did the media get so biased and in the tank for Obama…
These are the stories we should be demanding they cover.
hawkdriver on November 8, 2008 at 10:42 AM
What’s ridiculous about someone’s reputation being trashed daily and world wide? What do they have to lose? What do they have to hide? If I was a Romney aide, I would have stepped forward and done the right thing immediately. Apparently, you and others are the type that would not.
Blake on November 8, 2008 at 10:45 AM
This is a tabloid story in our tabloid mentality society.
I am reminded of when my girls were in school and would come home telling me that so and so said such and such. I would just say so what it really doesn’t matter. Same thing here.
thomasaur on November 8, 2008 at 10:46 AM
Divide and Conquer.
This is how the left won.
And still we bicker over whether Romney or Huckabee would have been the better candidate.
And now we blame them both for the Palin smearing.
Keep this up and we will easily be defeated in the future.
Disturb the Universe on November 8, 2008 at 10:46 AM
BTW, the fact that the gay marriage activists are protesting outside the Mormon church for their role in passing Prop 8 is part of the plan to destroy Romney. The fact is that many churches, and blacks in great numbers, supported Prop 8, but gosh, only Mormon’s are being singled out for daring to believe in the traditional definition of marriage.
Buy Danish on November 8, 2008 at 10:47 AM
heh…. + 1
Hog Wild on November 8, 2008 at 10:47 AM
If they find out who is making up the lies and spreading the dirt they should send them up to Alaska so the ‘Cuda can skin them with a dull knife….
DL13 on November 8, 2008 at 10:48 AM
LOL
Come on! Lets at least act like we can give the liberals a good game. Do you know since the end of the election, they’re cutting and pasting comments from right here at HA and just having a field day with they?
God, we fall right into their mind-screw.
Too depressing for me today.
Later Gators!
hawkdriver on November 8, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Like practically everyone on this website, I voted for McCain. He is a true American hero and I honor him for his service to this country both in the Navy and in the Senate. But that does not negate the fact that he is still all about John McCain. Nobody likes to lose, but some can be more gracious in defeat than others. His concession speech was laudable, but even that is just evidence that he is above all a politician, and it all comes down to survival.
McCain does not take rejection well–never has. Just one example:
How far do you have to go to get from…
“I’ll build the G-D fence if they want it.”
to…
“They like Palin? I’ll give them G-D Palin if they want her.”
No one can convince me that he is comfortable with the fact that Palin is much more popular than he is, and that she single-handedly saved his failed campaign.
IrishEi on November 8, 2008 at 10:50 AM
H
I never started beating my wife. However, on separate occasions I have overheard loud angry arguments between you and your wife with her yelling, “please, don’t hit me”. I then saw you storm out of the room. When I went to check on your wife, I found her crying, and her lip swollen and bleeding.
Blake on November 8, 2008 at 10:52 AM
I have it from a very good source here in DC that Romney’s people helping McCain’s campaign were indeed behind it. I assumed it was started by the media and I actually hope it’s not true but the person who told me is in position to know.
DCJeff on November 8, 2008 at 10:54 AM
Well one more comment on the way out. You’re either not reading all the comments here or you’re astroturfing yourself. Read the article that JA on November 8, 2008 at 10:41 AM linked to.
Look, I love what Sarah Palin did for the party as much as the next person and want to see her prepare and try to run again. Lets just not drive the entire freaking bus off a cliff right now because the medias managed to get our panties in a wad again.
This is not how you rebuild a party. And frankly folks, thats what were going to need to do.
hawkdriver on November 8, 2008 at 10:54 AM
I am certain any Kos lurker would really be enjoying all this backbiting and speculation. I’m with hawkdriver. Later.
Disturb the Universe on November 8, 2008 at 10:54 AM
What’s wrong with this denial? Clue: it’s not from the Romney people who worked on McCain/Palin. It’s from Romney’s spokes hole.
Blake on November 8, 2008 at 10:56 AM
Agreed. I just can’t figure out who will be the first one to turn on him. I keep thinking it will be the NY Times when he doesn’t pull out of Iraq by the end of Jan/09. Once one of the biggies turns, the others will follow suit. Slowly, but eventually.
sherry on November 8, 2008 at 10:56 AM
I’m not sure it’s driven so much by anti-Romney sentiment as it is by political correctness. Mormons are demographically “fair game” to the Left but blacks and Hispanics are not.
It’s particularly absurd given the historical stigma of Mormon polygamy. Not too hard to see why they’d be going overboard to associate themselves with the larger society’s “traditional” notion of marriage.
Gilda on November 8, 2008 at 10:57 AM
What kind of idiot commenter doesn’t realize how astroturfing works?
Provide irrefutable evidence that Mitt is behind this or take your witch hunt elsewhere.
Confirmed: You’re a fricking moron.
Buy Danish on November 8, 2008 at 10:58 AM
I heard it from a very good source that grass roots astroturfing was so successful in the 2008 campaign that they decided to not wait for future elections, they thought Republicans were so stupid they could use it to get them to kill each other rather than even have to run against them.
hawkdriver on November 8, 2008 at 10:59 AM
I can’t respond to a post and read other posts at the exact same time. See my response. As to astro turfing: blow me.
But damaging people’s reputation and turning them into an international punchline is rebuilding the party? See a psychiatrist. The fact that you and others want to sweep this under the rug tells me a lot about you and the party you claim to speak for.
Blake on November 8, 2008 at 11:01 AM
No, it does not help Romney or McCain to spread some nonsense about gov.Palin. If anything, for the fear of being found out trashing the most popular conservative politician in the US. However, diminishing and destroying her political future does help the Democrats greatly. Sawing seeds of discontent and suspicion among the GOP and future contenders for the White house helps the Democrats greatly. Look to them for the source of this…
runner on November 8, 2008 at 11:03 AM
They must be embarrassed to give ACORN credit for this sliming.
Right_of_Attila on November 8, 2008 at 11:04 AM
Well, if they “KNOW” it is not Romney people doing it, then that means they “KNOW” who is doing it. They should tell who it is, else, they are just as cowardly as the people doing it and should be considered part of the problem.
jparks1972 on November 8, 2008 at 11:05 AM
Blow me?
Are you kidding, what are you seven?
I agreed with about half of what you said and was just saying we needed to be patient and remember who we’re dealing with in the media and the Democratic Party. Dude, your posts in the future are invisible to me.
hawkdriver on November 8, 2008 at 11:06 AM
I understand it perfectly, jackass.
Provide proof that he isn’t. Provide proof that he is cooperating with exposing who is behind this. Just having his spokes hole issue a denial doesn’t cut it. Otherwise, you stfu.
No, dumbass, you are. You thought your question was oh so clever. It wasn’t.
Blake on November 8, 2008 at 11:07 AM
In order to reveal show said this, they would have to reveal their sources, which they won’t do.
Why is it so difficult to believe two reporters who state that this smear campaign is not coming from Romney?
Buy Danish on November 8, 2008 at 11:08 AM
This kind of crap will go on long enough to obscure Obama’s cabinet picks that expose just how left he plans to govern and just how little he will actually unite the country.
reaganaut on November 8, 2008 at 11:09 AM
Argh, what did I just write? Let’s try again!:
In order to so as you ask they would have to reveal their sources, which they won’t do.
Buy Danish on November 8, 2008 at 11:10 AM
EXACTLLY While everyone is pissing around with this nonsense “The Great And Powerful O” is setting the stage to destroy our constitution.
This is why we lost. All we do every day was sit around and pick nits!
Bicyea on November 8, 2008 at 11:11 AM
Yeah blow me. The seven year old is the one who accused me of astroturfing.
I don’t care whether you agree with me or not. From what you have posted, you are the type of person who has no problem throwing people under the bus as viciously as they have done to Palin. Now is not the time to call for patience. This crap should have been stopped the moment it started.
One can only wish! However, judging by your posts, I doubt you keep your word.
Blake on November 8, 2008 at 11:12 AM
This sounds like the kind of stuff the “Christian Leader” would encourage. After all, he is THE Christian leader and since he is uber-righteous, he can justify any means to the end that he deems as most beneficial to Christianity.
csdeven on November 8, 2008 at 11:13 AM
How bout those Cubs?
hawkdriver on November 8, 2008 at 11:13 AM
It’s McCainiacs looking to protect their own asses who leaked these lies and gross exagerations — not Romney or Huckabee people.
CanadianGuy on November 8, 2008 at 11:15 AM
It’s not one reporter, its 3 or 4 reporters at different outlets who all have very similar stories that came out within 24 hours. Plus Schuenneman predicted this was going to happen 2 weeks ago.
CanadianGuy on November 8, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Speculating as to who made the anonymous anti-Palin statements to the media is itself rumormongering. Knock it off. All of you.
Instead spend your time demanding an investigation into Obama campaign credit card donation AVS disablement. How much of Obama’s 160 million was raised illegally?
Basilsbest on November 8, 2008 at 11:18 AM
You are parroting unsupportable accusations. Prove a negative? Are you kidding? That is a logical fallacy.
Aliens must exist because there is no proof that they don’t exist?
Blake must be a moron because there is no proof that he isn’t.
csdeven on November 8, 2008 at 11:19 AM
hawkdriver on November 8, 2008 at 10:42 AM
On Fairtax . org they have more information then they had before. On the right, just click the tabs and explore. There is the pdf file also. Can’t find the one I told you about.
I don’t think that Romney would be a good choice for office. There are issues that I don’t think makes him a true Conservative. I could be wrong. That is how I see it.
sheebe on November 8, 2008 at 11:19 AM
Correction: $600 million.
Basilsbest on November 8, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Romney aides were caught talking trash about her already before the election was even over (and it got posted on hotair). Too lazy to look it up, but I think that’s why people instantly yelled “romney” when this happened again.
Darth Executor on November 8, 2008 at 11:21 AM
oops, might have mixed Romney with another sorry. Remember, I am a newbie Rep.
sheebe on November 8, 2008 at 11:22 AM
That’s an argumentum ad ignorantiam which is just perfect in your case.
Definition:
Arguments of this form assume that since something has not been proven false (or cannot be), it is therefore true.
Romney cannot prove it to be false. The reporters who were fed the false allegations about Palin are the only ones who can prove it.
Apparently that very simple concept is above your head. That may be why people like you are known as simpletons.
Buy Danish on November 8, 2008 at 11:22 AM
Romney would have cleaned Obama’s clock on the economy but at one time he was pro-choice so to some (idiot)Republicans he’s not an acceptable candidate. Instead they sent a 72-year-old man who couldn’t debate his way of paper bag to debate a man in the prime of his life who had the unquestioning support of 90% of the media.
Good grief.
Basilsbest on November 8, 2008 at 11:24 AM
Andrew Sullivan? Is that you, buddy? Hey, welcome to Hot Air! How’d that thing with Trig work out? Oh, still investigating? Well, I’m glad to see that you’ve branched out on your investigative journalism. Keep up the good work!
Dead Hand Control on November 8, 2008 at 11:27 AM
Ok, so the story is out, and it got people’s attention. What bugs me is why would a supposed journalist come out with a story he or she can’t back up? Why would they accept information from someone that cant back it up? The media has become a joke to me. I’m at the point when listening to talk radio that my first thought is “why” is this topic so important that it is being discussed. Where is it going? Does it really matter? Guess I’m a jaded old buzzard.
N4646W on November 8, 2008 at 11:30 AM
lmao
mccain wasn’t exactly known as a textbook conservative. romney lost because he’s a loser and if he had gone up against Obama the press would’ve tarred him as the posterboy for wallstreet greed, and fair or not, he would’ve been sunk. A businessman would have been the worst possible candidate in terms of actually winning the election.
Somehow, I don’t think you’re much of a judge when it comes to speaking.
Darth Executor on November 8, 2008 at 11:31 AM
Exact , those ones left not stepping up are the guilty ones. And if there are none , they can sue the networks.
the_nile on November 8, 2008 at 11:33 AM
Bingo. And now some of the same group are rearing their ugly heads to destroy Mitt all over again with false smears an innuendo.
They will stand up for Palin (which they should) but are incapable of showing the same fairness to Mitt, and are ignoring the testimony of two reporters who have stated that Mitt is not responsible for these smears.
Buy Danish on November 8, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Oh cut the crap. Mitt’s name wouldn’t even come up if it wasn’t for this:
http://spectator.org/archives/2008/10/27/post-defeat-planners
Darth Executor on November 8, 2008 at 11:35 AM
No one that has the long-term interests of the party in mind, certainly.
Not saying Huckabee is behind it, but it wouldn’t be surprising. Whisper campaigns are his style and he has certainly never demonstrated much concern for the future of the party versus his own self-interest.
JA on November 8, 2008 at 10:11 AM
Well I would admit I find this far more logical, than blaming someone that reports here in Utah that he isn’t interested in 2012.
And I admit that I despise Huckabee so I would find him far more plausible. But I still tend to think it is a RNC at large that still hasn’t learned its lesson and gotten a clue of their real problem that is a far more likely guess, and they knew that McCain doesn’t protect his own… look how he backs the Republican’s in Senate. It doesn’t happen, which is one more reason that only Sarah was enough to make me really care this year.
Noelie on November 8, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Funny how the Spectator article doesn’t name any sources either.
Dead Hand Control on November 8, 2008 at 11:36 AM
If you consider that Palin and Romney are the two most likely candidates to run in 2012, stories that bash Palin while placing the blame on Mitt benefit one guy:
Barack Obama.
fiatboomer on November 8, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Okay, genius. Tell us how this works exactly.
Also, please explain why you refuse to believe the fact that two reporters have stated that Mitt is not behind these smears?
Thanks in advance!
Buy Danish on November 8, 2008 at 11:41 AM
All those republican “insiders” deserve each other. The party of Ronald Reagan is dead.
Zorro on November 8, 2008 at 11:41 AM
What ever happened to the Great One’s Eleventh Commandment?
If Republican leaders want to lead, they should start now with a joint news conference on the steps of the capital. All of them from Governor to Congressman. Send a message of a unified loyal opposition.
Continuing this childish bickering is destructive and will only help Pelosi, Reed and Obama.
MHatch on November 8, 2008 at 11:41 AM
And no, I do not think Huck is behind this. I don’t like him that much, but I don’t think any of his folks were associated with the McCain campaign and I don’t think Huck’s dirty enough to start something like this.
I agree with everyone who suggests Axelrod and the MSM pulled this out of their @$$es to damage the GOP.
fiatboomer on November 8, 2008 at 11:43 AM
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