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GOP watch: Targeting Mitt

Posted: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 9:21 AM by Domenico Montanaro
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Palin backers took exception to Mitt Romney’s slap at Palin about her inclusion on Time’s most influential list. Now they have “hit back with a web video making fun of Romney, a potential rival in the 2012 Republican presidential sweepstakes,” the Boston Globe writes. “Entitled ‘There's a Bore in the Woods,’ it shows a fearsome bear and suggests Romney is running away by using a speeded-up version of the former Massachusetts governor's campaign ad last year of him jogging near his summer home in New Hampshire. The video … ends with Palin firing a hunting rifle and a bear's head on her trophy wall.”

Meanwhile, Michael Steele also took his shots at Romney. Guest-hosting Bill Bennett’s radio show again, Steele said: "Remember, it was the base that rejected Mitt because of his switch on pro-life, from pro-choice to pro-life. It was the base that rejected Mitt because it had issues with Mormonism. It was the base that rejected Mitt because they thought he was back and forth and waffling on those very economic issues you're talking about." 

Romney camp didn’t take kindly to those words: "Sometimes when you shoot from the hip you miss the target. This is one of those times," Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom told The Hill.

Steele then did one of those I’m-sorry-if-my-comments-were-misinterpreted apologies: "Chairman Steele regrets the way his comments have been interpreted," RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said. "Chairman Steele believes Mitt Romney is a respected and influential voice in the Republican Party and looks to his leadership and ideas to help move our party and our nation in the right direction."

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For once I actually have to agree with Magic Underwear Romney that Palin should never have been put on Time's most influential list, most disgusting list yes.  Gaffe Machine Steele always manages to put his foot in his mouth and then has to apologize for his clueless comments.  Yeah it's by design isn't it?

Let's not forget that Mainstream America has rejected and denounced the base of the Evil Elephant party last November and as long as the repugnant ones cling to their socially conservative evangelical lunatic fringe they will always be losers.

Just Say No to the Evil Elephants!
Palin backers took exception to Mitt Romney’s slap at Palin about her inclusion on Time’s most influential list. Now they have “hit back with a web video making fun of Romney, a potential rival in the 2012 Republican presidential sweepstakes,” the Boston Globe writes. “Entitled ‘There's a Bore in the Woods,’ it shows a fearsome bear and suggests Romney is running away by using a speeded-up version of the former Massachusetts governor's campaign ad last year of him jogging near his summer home in New Hampshire. The video … ends with Palin firing a hunting rifle and a bear's head on her trophy wall.”

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Leave it to the followers of Governor Palin to set the bar for high-brow intellectual political debate!

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Meanwhile, Michael Steele also took his shots at Romney. Guest-hosting Bill Bennett’s radio show again, Steele said: "Remember, it was the base that rejected Mitt because of his switch on pro-life, from pro-choice to pro-life. It was the base that rejected Mitt because it had issues with Mormonism.

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Mr. Steele, are you suggesting that "the base" is justified in having "issues" with Mormonism?  Kiss Utah goodbye!
I don't like Palin or Romney but that commercial is funny.
Hold on while I nuke up some popcorn for this.  It's just so much fun seeing the GOP eat each other alive.

>>>Guest-hosting Bill Bennett’s radio show again, Steele said: "Remember, it was the base that rejected Mitt because of his switch on pro-life, from pro-choice to pro-life...
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You mean like the way you once indicated that women had the right to choose then fliped the script when the GOP called you on it, or was it the way you once implied that homosexuality was not a choice then had to flip on that one when your GOP masters took you to the toolshed.

>>>Steele then did one of those I’m-sorry-if-my-comments-were-misinterpreted apologies: "Chairman Steele regrets the way his comments have been interpreted," RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said. "Chairman Steele believes Mitt Romney is a respected and influential voice in the Republican Party and looks to his leadership and ideas to help move our party and our nation in the right direction."
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Someone please tell me why you folks elected him as chair of your party again.  Oh, yeah.  I fogot.  You needed a Black face to counter Obama.

http://jawillie.blog.com
Welcome to the family feud. Today's contestants in the GOP family feud are Mitt and Sarah.

Hee hee hee the more they fight the better.
Go get her Mitt.
Go get him Sarah.

This should be fun to watch.

Is Mikey going to referee?

It's great watching the GOP going after each other mano a mana. Keep it up! Rommney, Palin, Druggy Limbaugh, Steele, and Darth Cheney. Let the slime games begin amongst themselves and sit back and eat popcorn.
Eric, Salinas...I take most of what you say with a grain of salt. It is a bit juvenile and that adds levity to the blog. however when you attack one's religion I must protest. While not a member of the LDS church I do know people who are. They are fine upstanding citizens who, like you and me, have freedom of and from religion. Please refrain from reference to Mr. Romney's underclothing from now on. We all deal with symbols in our lives, secular and religious. You may not like the symbols of the LDS Church but that doesn't mean you have the right to criticize others for believing in those. I don't know your religion or if you are religious, it doesn't matter. However whether religious or secular if there is a symbol you hold dear that means something to you I am sure you wouldn't want someone to make dispariaging remarks about it either.
When, oh when, will the RNC get rid of that embarrasing Steele??
eagle1776 - whoa, hold on there one second. I myself do not believe in the imaginary being that lives in the sky somewhere, but here is the difference in our beliefs. Almost weekly I will have two mormon missionaries knock on my door trying to convert me. Yet I have never gone knocking on strangers doors trying to get them to believe like me. So if they think they have a right to do that, then I think we have every right to make fun of the magic underwear. Live and let live, don't try to push your views and beliefs onto others, just ain't right.


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