Responses to the sneak attack on Sarah Palin by Romney operatives are coming from all quarters of the Palinosphere. The latest to weigh in is Doctor Zero from Hot Air's Green Room:
Even as the starting bell rings for the first round of the Republican presidential free-for-all, we’ve got a couple of anonymous Mitt Romney advisors coming off the top rope, aiming elbow smashes at Sarah Palin’s back. They said she’s “not a serious human being” and “if she’s standing up there in a debate, and the answers are more than 15 seconds long, she’s in trouble.”Read the rest of Doctor Zero's commentary here.
This childish and incoherent nonsense does a lot more damage to Mitt Romney than Sarah Palin. What, exactly, are the criteria for being considered a “serious human being?” Should she just give up her half-hearted attempts at humanity and drop dead? I would think raising a Downs-syndrome child would earn her a certain degree of automatic credit for seriousness. It’s certainly not the kind of thing a frivolous human being would do. Romney should begin his campaign by firing anyone who maintains a Daily Kos diary.
The crack about fifteen-second debate answers is slightly more coherent, but utterly ridiculous. Anybody who can rock a sitting Presidential administration with Facebook posts has nothing to prove to the faceless minions of a voiceless bystander to the ObamaCare drama.
The contenders for the GOP nomination will need to take some shots at each other, but they need to do it without questioning the very humanity of prospective candidates who haven’t even declared yet. In case the Romney machine hasn’t noticed, Palin is popular with the Tea Party folks, who will be producing much of the grassroots energy during the 2012 election. Slouching into agreement with the laziest media caricatures of Big Mama Grizzly is not going to impress them.
Let me offer Romney, and the other GOP contenders hoping to climb into the steel cage with him and Palin, what we’re looking for in a serious candidate...
Related: On Hot Air's main page, Ed Morrissey observes:
"Sounds as though Palin and her team are not afraid of playing a little hardball within the party, or at least not afraid of fighting fire with fire. The shot from the Romney camp does seem to indicate some control issues. After all, while candidates will certainly jockey for position in 2010, it’s far too early to be taking public shots at each other. The question of being a 'team player' is rather important in the midterms. Both Romney and Palin have done a good job in raising money and supporting candidates for Congress — and that’s exactly where the focus should remain."Updates...
"If it doesn’t, Palin and her team just showed that they can respond in kind — and that pols with glass houses shouldn’t busy themselves with throwing stones."
Mitt Romney tries to do some damage control via Twitter:
TIME says unnamed advisors disparaged @SarahPalinUSA. Anonymous numbskulls. She’s proven her smarts; they’ve disproven theirs.
I updated my Romney Gutter post "in fairness" to Chauncey Romney & His Team of Anonymous Numbskulls http://is.gd/duwiy @MittRomney- JP
15 minutes ago via web
Maybe HotAir's @edmorrissey post struck a @MittRomney nerve. Palin aide: Romney squad “immature,” out of control http://is.gd/duuyv
43 minutes ago via web
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@RomneyCentral Oh, absolutely I'll be posting on this--with commentary on Mitten's "Who? Me?" pass-the-buck immaturity.
about 1 hour ago via web in reply to RomneyCentral
@RomneyCentral Grow up. He can demand to know who did it. If Mittens can't control *advisers* he can't control the Free World
about 1 hour ago via web in reply to RomneyCentral
One more thing @MittRomney, I guess if you have adviser 'numbskulls' (2!) who have proven their 'lack of smarts' we'll see some firings?
about 1 hour ago via web
And one other thing @MittRomney, you will be held responsible for what your proxies say and do about Palin. No more free shots.
about 1 hour ago via web
Hey, @MittRomney, your "anonymous numbskulls" response is silly and immature. Man-up, take responsibility and *apologize* to Palin
about 1 hour ago via web
Or, @MittRomney, your advisers are only "anonymous" to us and not to you, which I think far more likely
about 2 hours ago via web
Gee, @MittRomney, so your lack of control of your camp is so severe employees feel comfortable making comments like that to Time?
about 2 hours ago via web
Really @mittromney? "Numbskulls"? Romney responds to his camp attacking @SarahPalinUSA. http://is.gd/duqXO #tbrs #tcot #teaparty
about 2 hours ago via web
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