RW blog reporting real reason Card is leaving WH

[AnnInLa]

My sources tell me that White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card's resignation has almost nothing to do with a "staff shakeup," as the AP has reported.

The "staff shakeup" meme plays into the MSM's obsession with the president's "slumping poll numbers" -- which they all too gaily report -- but does not really add up. Card served as a traditional CoS; an administrator, not a policy or political guy, and for all the shortcomings of this White House, staff administration has never really been one of them.

Rather, I have been told by Washington insiders that Card is leaving to play a significant role in the presidential campaign of Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. This announcement will not be made for several months; perhaps not until after the 2006 election, but many of Card's associates have already been working for Romney behind the scenes.

http://www.anklebitingpundits.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3351&mode=nested&order=1&thold=0

[Teaser]

1. Romney is very beatable

nt

[spindrifter]

7. Good!

Do you have any insights about him. I know that he is trying to position himself as the golden one. I am wondering if there will be a lot of LDS money going to him.

[Teaser]

18. An East Coast LDS candidate

just will not fly in the south. Additionally, his record as governor has been mixed, and he is not particularly inspiring in person.

I am much more afraid of McCain.

[Perky]

12. Beatable? He is delusional!!!

He might win NH but there is no way fundies in the south are going to voe for a Mormon. It is just not going to happen.

[Ian David]

20. Romney has "Presidential Hair."

It's not that it's actually nice hair or even good hair.

Romney's hair looks like what I imagine a Presiden't hair looks like.

If they campaigned on hair, Romney would win.

Dark Helmet for President.

[MADem]

23. TOTALLY!!!

He's a liar, he's Mormon (fair or not, BIG LOVE is in the news, and he will be tarred with that brush, so don't get on me for throwing the obvious into the mix), he's plastic looking, he photographs poorly, especially on video (it's like looking at someone who at first glance appears normal, and then, the more you look at him, he looks like an animatron or a plastic Ken Doll come to life! The teeth are especially creepy...). He has a background as a predatory corporate pig, who bought up companies, broke them up, and took the profits, so he is anti-worker. His wife is ill, so she will be little help on the campaign trail. Oh, and he's a LIAR. Did I mention that he is a liar? And he lies on TAPE, the putz!!!

I actually think that this exploratory phase is really in aid of securing either the VP slot or a cabinet position.

[stop the bleeding]

2. always interesting to see what the other side is saying

thank you

[debbierlus]

3. Nice Catch.

I hate Romney.

He is the governor of my state, and he is useless. He came here from Colorado, ran for the governor's office as a stepping stool, and has been a Republican tongue up the azz lap dog for the past four years. Campaigning outside the states constantly for GOP functions. Appearing at the Republican Convention in 2004, azz licking Bush for a future GOP VP or Presidential endorsement.

He is one of the GOP's biggest whores. Really. A plastic ken doll look-alike that will do ANYTHING to be the next corporate puppet.

He is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo gross.

I am so ashamed of Massachuseets for electing him. He played dirty. And, he was such an obvious liar and superficial 'charmer'.

This guy is one to watch out for....He is such scum.

[Jim Warren]

10. Agreed

fucking carpetbagger with stealth

[Touchdown]

15. What a coincidence. My Governor (Colorado)

...is from Texas, and was an oil lobbyist. Bill Owens also has Prez aspirations...that will go nowhere. He's estranged with his wife, and you can see him in the window watching TV alone when you walk by the Gov's mansion.

[KoKo]

17. Is he popular in Massachusetts? I never hear DU'ers from there talk

about him. :shrug: Why was he elected in such a blue state in the first place?

[Ian David]

21. Romney vetoed some very popular bills. Never had a veto not over-turned

He vetoed a bill to keep a company from building a trash-transfer station next to a reservoir.

There was a MASSIVE grass-roots campaign of neighborhoods organizing to create that bill. People were putting signs on their lawns. Calling their congress-critters. People became politically active for the first time because they wanted to pass that bill.

And when the bill passed, Romney vetoed it.

The Democrats over-turned that veto.

[Ian David]

22. When Massachusetts was being pummeled by tornados...

Romney went on a cross-country tour to promote his book.

[MADem]

25. Actually, he came here from UTAH, where he got a homesteader's

tax break, because he filed state taxes in Utah as a RESIDENT. He should not have even run for gov, but the fix was in with the courts...the downside of having too many fucking GOP governors.

I really do think we are past due for some Democratic EXCESS...we should get ourselves a good Democratic wrangler in the corner office, who will keep the sometimes overrreaching Dem legislature in line, but ensure that there is some balance in government amongst other agencies.

"Some say" (hey, the GOP use that phrase all the time) that there was some fishy business that went on in Western MA with the voting machines. No one has really looked at it, but some of the polling did not match results....so don't be ashamed of MA--at least the legislature can hand him his ass on a regular basis.

[Rockholm]

27. Romney sucks. He hates Massachusetts...

He derides the state at ever chance he gets. He is "running right" at the moment to curry favor of the RW. He ran to the middle to win here and the electorate for the most part wants him gone.

Sadly, a number of our Democratic house members and senators are DINO'S anyway.

[mattclearing]

4. Interesting. I wonder if that means Romney is the Bush pick...?

This White House is totally going to vet the next guy, and it won't be McCain.

[FSogol]

6. I think it'll be fake cowboy, George Allen. n/t

[mattclearing]

8. I thought so too, but maybe they are hedging?

If Card and Rove disagree so much, maybe this is a split over the '08 candidate? I think Allen is Rove's guy.

[FSogol]

14. Possibility. Not such a good track record for Pres. candidates from Mass.

just saying. ;-)

[Jim Warren]

11. I don't know, but

it looks to me like the mittster might be getting the buchco nod

[MADem]

28. Well, Mittsy missed the inaugural last time

We had a terra alert (watch out for two vicious Iraqis and four scary evil CHINESE people with a laptop!!!)--turned out to be total horseshit, but he didn't get to schmooze with the Big Kids! He was damn near in tears over it.

I see Mitt as the VP...I just don't think he has the juice to make it through the primary, especially if the GOP puts up a vibrant field (dipshit Fristie, McCain, Allen, and so forth). He's stupid, and he'd put a hyperactive kid to sleep with his speaking style.

[Tsiyu]

5. I was hoping it meant he was

stepping away to help Fitzy or to get with Larry Flynt and write a tell-all expose.

Hell's bells.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Probably true, if Andy isn't indicted for outing Plame.

[savemefromdumbya]

13. I thought it was an pending indictment?

[Ian David]

16. I think it's to spend more time with Jeff Gannon. n/t

[Richard Steele]

19. Doubtful. If its a RW blog, then it's spin and lies. Think INDICTMENT.

[Dob Bole]

24. Please run for president, Mitt Romney!

Please!

[devilgrrl]

26. "they all too gaily report"

Bushites should be relieved that that's about the only bad Bush news they report... if even.

[Norquist Nemesis]

29. Nah...the reason was the final straw

that broke the camel's back when Bush Unconstitutionally signed a piece of paper that was supposed to be a law, but wasn't.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Congressman_writes_White_House_Did_President_0315.html

It STILL hasn't gained CM front burner exposure, and I haven't seen/heard any followup to Waxman's letter. But Card was too tired, burned out, and past the point of being able to effectively and competently run things. It wasn't one single big whopping thing, but a whole host of mistakes that added up to "unable to perform" on his job review.

BTW, since this so-called bill was dealing with Budget Reconciliation, and Bolten is from OMB...could be fun! :popcorn: