01/18/2008
Romney Unstapled: I Do Not Have Lobbyists Running My Campaign
And the script goes out the window...
At a Columbia, South Carolina 'Staples' store, Mitt Romney lost his cool when AP writer Glen Johnson challenged the Republican candidate, claiming that Ron Kaufman is a lobbyist, and helps run Romney's campaign.
According to MSNBC: "Kaufman is a senior strategist with the campaign who often travels with the governor and provides counsel before debates and other major events; in fact, Kaufman traveled with the motorcade in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses and was also in Michigan for the primary. He has been involved in Republican politics for decades and is now a lobbyist with the firm, Dutko Worldwide."
Posted 9:00 AM EST by Andy Towle in Election 2008, Mitt Romney, News, Republican Party | Permalink
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LAUGHING MY ASS OFF !!!!
Love your caption.... And the script goes out the window.
That was just fuckin' great !!!!!!
Posted by: Vince | Jan 18, 2008 10:12:33 AM
Good for him! This is what journalists need to be doing rather than following the candidates around like star-struck teenagers. A robot like Romney exists only because there is a failure by journalists to ask these kinds of questions.
Posted by: GM | Jan 18, 2008 10:45:10 AM
Johnson should be an example to all students of journalism. Journalists are MEANT to challenge sources, not kiss up to them and live in fear of alienating them with 'tough' questions.
Posted by: Rhea | Jan 18, 2008 11:15:05 AM
Johnson should be an example to all students of journalism. Journalists are MEANT to challenge sources, not kiss up to them and live in fear of alienating them with 'tough' questions.
Posted by: Rhea | Jan 18, 2008 11:15:28 AM
Am I the only one with daddy issues that thinks that Mitt is hot as hell?
I know everyone thinks he's a nut, and I don't really know anything he believes in (other than he's re Repub and conservative), but he is HOT.
Posted by: Jordan | Jan 18, 2008 12:49:46 PM
Did you hear that woman at the end? "You're rude and ugly!"
Posted by: Krypenthorff III | Jan 18, 2008 1:07:14 PM
Johnson is a hero. My only complaint is he didn't push hard enough. Mitt is a fraud. He is a paid for whore of the repuglican party. Thank God, he will not get the nomination. Let's just now hope that crazy huck won't get it.
Posted by: Andrew | Jan 18, 2008 1:08:38 PM
My blog covers Massachusetts politics... and all I can say is Ferhnstrom is a creep. Man I'm glad he's away from Beacon Hill. And Romney, not that he was ever actually at Beacon Hill...
Posted by: Ryan | Jan 18, 2008 3:25:42 PM
Is it me or has the Repug candidates since Bush become loonier and loonier? Ron Paul (when he's lucid) I thought was viable until I did my research. Is their a common sense candidate on either side?
Posted by: DC Arnold | Jan 19, 2008 7:47:40 PM