Mika Sticks Up For Mitt!
Come November, there's no way Mika Brzezinski will be pulling the lever for Mitt Romney. But the MSNBC co-host had some sincere praise for the Republican standard-bearer this morning.
Expressing frustration with Rudy Giuliani--the latest in a string of Republicans to have offered only a tepid endorsement of Romney--Brzezinski said that when she meets with Mitt and Ann, she comes away "excited," because they're "good people" and a "good family." "What's wrong with these people? It's just ridiculous," a palpably peeved Mika said of Giuliani and others who have emitted only muted praise of Mitt. Video after the jump.
Watch Mika's unexpected comments. Among other things, she was reacting to Giuliani's begrudging endorsement in which he said: "If I've got a terrible cancer or something to be operated on--when I had to be operated on for prostate cancer--I didn't go to the nicest doctor, I went to the best doctor."
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Just one more question for either of you guys. In the run-up to this Giuliani endorsement--I don't know how much you know about exactly how it went down--but all of these. But why, is the Romney campaign, are Mitt and Ann Romney meeting with these people? Because Lord knows, that helps. When we meet with them, the next day we're so excited because they're such nice people, they're good people, they're a good family. I don't understand why somebody can't get behind Mitt Romney and do a solid, from-the-heart, endorsement. What's wrong with these people?
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Mitt Romney is a lot like Barack Obama in this respect: he doesn't reach out and touch people.
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MARK HALPERIN: People who work with him in business like him as much as anyone--they love him; they sing his praises. The people who have competed with him in politics are not big fans. And Giuliani is one of them. But you mentioned Ann: Ann gave a speech in Connecticut last night, a Republican dinner. I wasn't there but by every account wowed them. And I think she has the capacity to try to get insiders more enthusiastic about the ticket.
BRZEZINSKI: I think if you meet with Mitt and Ann you walk away with more than "unlikable doctor." Come on now: it's just ridiculous.
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I'm Thinking..
Submitted by KornKing on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 7:18am.
Bubbles wants to cover her bases in case there's a President Romney
Consider her political preferences
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 8:25am.
Last year, she couldn't understand why John Huntsman wasn't the front runner in the GOP. Like other liberal MSMers, if she couldn't get Obama, Huntsman was tolerable.
But they're all over the Huntsman pangs. They know he won't even be selected as VP candidate.
So, the next tolerable choice to them is Mitt Romney. Why? Because despite his newly found conservative rhetoric, he has supported Democratic candidates in the past, and he did sign Romneycare into law. He's flip-flopped on so many issues that they don't take his conservative positions seriously. They also prefer Romney because it takes Obamacare off the table (if it even survives the Supreme Court).
A 'Massachusetts Republican' is their ideal of where the entire GOP should be on the political spectrum; to them, he is a moderate leaning right; to many Republicans, he's a moderate leaning left. To the Dems, anyone to the right of Romney is declared a right wing extremist.
MItka hypocrite
Submitted by ohio granny on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 9:14am.
MItka is a hypocrite, enough said
Of COURSE she is praising Obamney...
Submitted by stage9 on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 11:22am.
he's a liberal like she is! Why in God's name are so many Conservatives hailing this man as some sort of Conservative icon? He's a New England liberal!
The Mitt Romney Report -- Things about Obamney's record in MA that the news media refuses to disclose.
http://massresistance.org/romney/
The fact that the leadership of the GOP is giving us a choice between a left wing radical and RINO liberal is insulting.
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
What, I can't hear you?
Submitted by drewh60 on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 12:16pm.
Many people bristle if there is any enthusiasm shown by anyone for Romney. Hurry, use your tools of "smirk and scorn, derision and ridicule". How can anyone deny his accomplishments and good qualities? Is "classy reserve" inauthentic? Is the unenthusiasm given Romney a media-created illusion"? Of coarse it is! What are you affraid of?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/04/mitt_romney_antihero.html