GOP watch: Targeting Mitt
Posted: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 9:21 AM by Domenico Montanaro
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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."