Ed Rollins: More Dirty Tricks
If you thought Iowa was full of dirty tricks, wait 'til you get a load of the fun Iowa caucus winner Mike Huckabee's campaign chairman has in store for New Hampshire!
A blogger for Townhall.com was the only other person in a little dive restaurant in Des Moines Thursday where the legendary political operative Ed Rollins happened to be dining with his wife - and, luckily for the blogger, talking (and cursing) loudly.
The blogger's notes are full of wonderful little nuggets, such as Rollins - who proudly considers himself a bare-knuckles bruiser - calling NBC newswoman Andrea Mitchell "sweetie," and telling CNN Immigration Czar Lou Dobbs that he'd be ready to have drinks with him after Iowa to strategize about "Hillary."
Rollins, while he munched on a tuna melt sandwich during his phone chat with Dobbs, also made reference to his now infamous comment about needing to check his temper around Mitt Romney "whose teeth I want to knock out." In the restaurant, according to the blogger, Amanda Carpenter, Rollins told Dobbs: "they are all porcelain."
Carpenter also writes that Rollins was telling his "blonde female dining companion" - who turned out to be Rollins' wife - that Rudy Giuliani is "done" and was "hurt terribly by those police cruises with his girlfriends." Rollins, in an interview later with Chris Wallace on Fox News, didn't deny saying any of this. (Click on this link to Townhall.com to see the Fox News video.)
While he "let the f-bomb fly twice," Rollins reportedly also "distinctly talked about going negative in South Carolina and told someone on the phone to 'put some good in there if you have to, with the bad. Do what you gotta do.'" Rollins also apparently indicated he believed Huckabee was the victim of "dirty tricks."
Well, bless his heart - as they say in South Carolina, where Huck apparently will do what he's gotta do to keep Christian evangelicals on his side.
By Mary Ann Akers |
January 4, 2008; 2:42 PM ET
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Posted by: Duha | January 7, 2008 10:13 AM
Dirty tricks are a comin' Thanks for the great insight - Remember the biggest ditry trick was the 2000 so called election. Stay tuned lots more on the way!!!!
Posted by: Maine Guy | January 7, 2008 10:15 AM
Mary Ann Akers is an AIPAC hack, there must be some reason (not spelled out in this article) they don't want Huckabee to be the Republican nominee.
Posted by: G. Sevier | January 7, 2008 10:57 AM
What an inane bucnh of conjecture. "...and then Bill Clinton strolled in with 2 blondes on his arm and smoking a cigar..." "...talking to Sid Viscous Blumenthal about Romney's drinking habits on the campaign trail....and then breathlessly the discussion turns to dirty tricks by the big money backers behind the Obama "surge..."
This is a ridiculous use of a paper's resources. Come on show some tough love mentoring to this poor clueless soul!!
Posted by: Majned | January 7, 2008 12:10 PM
The devil made them do it! Praise be to him and his brother as Romney would say.
Posted by: paiaso | January 7, 2008 01:31 PM
Geeze, I thought Rollins was washed up years ago.
Posted by: SooonerThought | January 7, 2008 03:16 PM
And here all the lowly voters thought this was all about electing a president!
Posted by: Rubicon | January 7, 2008 11:47 PM
Ed Rollins is a dirt-bag.
Posted by: I-Know-Ed | January 8, 2008 10:50 AM
Hallelujah! Another true "christian conservative" showing their stripes ala Jimmy Baker, Oral Roberts, et al... True character on display here, just what this country DOESN'T need after 8 years of HalliBush, Inc.
Posted by: Bill | January 8, 2008 11:17 AM
Hiring Ed Rollins is a red flag for me NOT to support the candidate who hired him!
What a disgusting cretin.
Posted by: MJ | January 8, 2008 12:48 PM
What great sleuthing!Mr Rollins, another squash head.
Posted by: drevers,b | January 8, 2008 06:04 PM
Birds of a feather flock together! Rollins shows us the INSIDE of the doughboy Huckabee. Sad but true-
Posted by: N. Faye | January 8, 2008 06:11 PM
You can see Rollins' fingerprints all over the Huckabee campaigm, especially when it comes to nasty little dirty tricks. The 'non-intruduction' introduction of the anti-Romney attack ad was pure Rollins. And you can just make out Eddie's bare knuckles bulging out otf the back of Huckabees suit jacket during stump speeches, pulling the strings that make Huck's mouth move!
So much for 'Change'... Huckabee's just another tax-and-spend opportunist who'd sell his soul to be President. I don't know any Christians (especially Ministers) that would sell out their principles, run from their history, and commit so many foul deeds- then pretend to be holier-than-thou!
Huckabee's the 21st-century version of Jim Bakker- but instead of a waterpark, he's got a traveling political circus!
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Posted by: xtrabiggg | January 8, 2008 07:17 PM
If Mike Huckabee had made racial comments about a leading black candidate or sexist comments about a leading female candidate, he would have been castigated by the media. How he was able to launch his surge on religious bigotry is dumbfounding to me. It seems that everyone is oblivious to the obvious.
In the event that Mitt Romney does not win the nomination, then history will show that Mike Huckabee pulled off the political crime of the century. It was Mike Huckabee that raised religious issues among Iowa evangelicals by comments toward Romney's religion.
As Huckabee's tactics started to show in the Iowa polls, Mitt responded with his "Faith in America" speech. Romney was then forced to work on damage control. Romney's efforts in Iowa payed off and he continued to rise back in the polls but the damage gave him a second in a state he held firmly until Huckabee's misuse of the public forum.
McCain saw his window and concentrated on New Hampshire while Romney was being unduely "occupied" in Iowa. Romney was forced to agressively address things detracting from what his positive messaging had been and did so famously. Romney then relied on comparison ads to contrast differences. These ads were constantly referred to as "attack ads" by Huckabee, who continually portrayed him as "desperate", and "attacking".
Now Huckabee is able to capitalize on such tactics. Because of his use of the majority evangelical state of Iowa and with the ignorance of the media toward the Mormon religion, he flew under the radar of a nation that has worked since Lincoln to erase such bigotry.
A majority of the nation now sees only that Mike Huckabee won the Iowa caucus and know nothing of the back story. I think it important to present it. Observe for yourself and pass these perspectives along. We need a TRUE man for change and a proven record of turning things around in the oval office.
Vote Mitt Romney
Posted by: Kelly Warnick | January 9, 2008 01:09 PM
Ok, so we have the word of a person who was taking notes of someone elses conversation and the attack is on. This is because people who are against Huckabee want to believe everything bad about him. I am sure all the other candidates have people working for them who are lovely, kind souls. I wonder where the people are who study the issues of our country and determine who will be president. This sounds like People Magazine or the Enquirer. We have not had, nor will we ever have a perfect person in any office because they are all human just like the rest of us. Let's stick to the issues.
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