What Happened to the Eleventh Commandment?

“Thou shall not speak badly of another Republican.” — Ronald Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment.

Today I received my almost daily e-mail alert from Michelle Bachmann touting the reasons she should be President and asking for money. I not only deleted it I scrolled to the bottom of the page and clicked on the link to unsubscribe.

I have been receiving these e-mails from her since I donated to her congressional campaign last year. I have nothing against Ms. Bachmann, in fact like her and her conservative principles. I unsubscribed because of her campaign manager Ed Rollins.

According to the Daily Caller earlier this week the old-time political hack Ed Rollins took a shot at Sarah Palin claiming she was not serious candidate. The DC reports:

“Earlier this week, what could be the first shots were fired in a potential rivalry between potential Republican presidential hopefuls Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. On Tuesday, Bachmann campaign manager Ed Rollins said Palin wasn’t a “serious” candidate for president and that upset many Palin supporters, who also tend to support Bachmann.

In an appearance on Thursday’s syndicated “Hugh Hewitt Show,” columnist Mark Steyn asked the question – what is Bachmann doing with Rollins on her team in the first place?

Earlier this week, what could be the first shots were fired in a potential rivalry between potential Republican presidential hopefuls Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. On Tuesday, Bachmann campaign manager Ed Rollins said Palin wasn’t a “serious” candidate for president and that upset many Palin supporters, who also tend to support Bachmann.

In an appearance on Thursday’s syndicated “Hugh Hewitt Show,” columnist Mark Steyn asked the question – what is Bachmann doing with Rollins on her team in the first place?

Steyn described Rollins as a “backroom boy” and described him as what is wrong with American politics.

“Ed Rollins … is one of the things that disfigures American politics because he’s one of these so-called backroom boys who’s always in the front window,” Steyn said. “I don’t see the point of having backroom boys who are always in the front window.”

Steyn mocked Rollins for one of his shots of Palin – her looks compared to Bachmann’s looks.

“And in this case when he started going on about — well I forget what he said, you know that his candidate was just as hot-looking as Sarah Palin, he said that about Michele didn’t he I think at one point?” he continued. “Which I agree with and I vaguely remember from – I think it was 1988 when Bob Dole’s campaign manager announced Bob Dole was twice as hot as George Bush, Sr. Obviously you know, this is part of a well-established pattern in Republican primaries.”

Rollins, who once worked for Ronald Reagan must be suffering from dementia. He knows very well Reagans eleventh commandment, yet he went on the attack against Palin to boost his candidate’s position. It for this reason I unsubscribed to Bachmann’s e-mails. When the congresswoman from Minnesota fires Rollins I will again subscribe and possible contribute.

Bachmann knows she needs Palin’s support and the support of Palin’s Tea Party followers if she wants to move to the top of the heap of Republican candidates. This is like Gingrich blasting Paul Ryan’s budget proposal. Look what happened to him. His entire staff resigned as they saw him as a potential looser.

I can understand legitimate debate between the candidates in the primaries; this is how he public gets to know what their principles, values and policies are. But, ad hominine attacks will not cut it with me, or the potential Republican voters. Yes we want strong candidates that can stand against Obama, but you don’t become strong by attacking your friends and allies. Tis causes division in the party and its what the Democrats salivate over.

I was especially proud of Herman Cain when asked by an interviewer on one of the TV talk shows looking for an opportunity drive a wedge between Cain and Palin. When asked if he thought Palin’s bus tour was affecting his campaign his answer was a blunt and direct “nope.” Cain understand Reagan’s eleventh commandment.

Rollins’ comment opened the door for an untruthful opinion piece in POLITICAL stating that Palin had blasted Bachmann for taking her thunder away. The authors made up a quote and attributed it to Palin. The manufactured quote was immediately caught by Palin’s staff and POLITICAL reposted the piece sans the quote and issued an apology.

The original piece in POLITICAL, titled “Will rivalry make Sarah Palin run?” had a quote in the third paragraph stating:

“Palin’s bus tour had some of the hallmarks of a primal scream: “I built this constituency, not Bachmann, not anyone else.” Looking at it through her eyes, she has a point.”

That’s a big deal. Considering the piece, that would appear to be the start of a word war between the two Tea Party favorites. But there’s just one problem. Palin never said it.

“An absurd opinion piece in Politico includes a quote attributed to Governor Palin that is a total fabrication and yet is deliberately written to appear as if it is a legitimate direct quote,” Palin’s camp said in a statement on her website. “By any standard this is unacceptable even for an opinion piece. This puts us in mind of a real quote of something Governor Palin actually did once say to the media: ‘Quit making stuff up.’”

Politico must have heard the Momma Grizzly’s roar. If you go to the piece now, the quotes have been removed and a statement appears at the end:

“CORRECTION: An editing error caused a false attribution in an earlier version of this column. A comment by the authors was transformed into a direct quote from Sarah Palin. She never said the words attributed to her. Those words were written by the authors.”

The authors of the piece are both Democrats. You can read a full report on this flap by clicking here.

Today the State House in Alaska released 24,000 printed e-mails that Sarah Palin received or replied to while Governor of Alaska. Fox News reports:

“An early look at the trove of emails released Friday from Sarah Palin's first two years as Alaska's governor gives an idea of the sudden scrutiny she faced after she was selected as the Republicans' vice presidential nominee in 2008.

Some of the messages she received at the time were blatantly threatening. In one dated Sept. 12, 2008, the sender said Palin should "be shot," using several vulgarities to refer to her. Another email the next day, supposedly from somebody in Belgium, made the same threat.

Other emails in the trove released Friday include questions from reporters and more subdued complaints from the public. In one Sept. 13 email, a Juneau resident said she was "very angry" regarding reports that Palin's husband Todd was involved in official meetings.

A Sept. 15 email from her press aide detailed the topics of the day in the media. Among them was "the tanning bed at the Governor's House" and whether she believes "dinosaurs and humans co-existed at one time."

Palin expressed frustration in response. "Arghhhh! I am so sorry that the office is swamped like this! Dinosaurs even?!" she wrote back, noting she was "dismayed" at the media.

The emails are being combed through by dozens of media organizations. Reporters and photographers crowded into a small office to pick up the six boxes of emails -- 24,199 pages and weighing 100 pounds. Some carried boxes down the stairs and others, wheeling them on dollies, scrambled to be the first ones to reach elevators.

Within minutes of the release, Palin tweeted a link to the webpage for "The Undefeated," a documentary about her rise and time as governor.”

I've never seen the news media do this, and it is beyond reproachful for them to have done this," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell complained on the June 10 "Fox & Friends" regarding the New York Times and Washington Post calling for readers to volunteer to help them comb through the archive of Sarah Palin's official gubernatorial e-mail correspondence.

"This is [the mainstream media] participating in a character assassination campaign" and shows "exactly how much the media despise Sarah Palin and to what ends they'll go to have her knocked out of this [presidential] race," the Media Research Center founder argued, adding that it was unimaginable that they'd go to the same lengths to vet a Democratic presidential candidate like Bill Clinton or Barack Obama.”

Many of today’s so called “journalists” are no better than whores. At least a whore offers some benefit to society by offering their clients uncommitted sex. The MSM journalists are just whores offering nothing, but trying to push their left wing agenda. Where were these “journalists” in 2008 when Barack Obama was running for president? Where were they when Sean Hannity was exposing Obama’s relationship with Reverend Wright and Bill Ayres? How hard did they try to get Obama’s college records and his writings? Even today Obama and the Democrats are off limits in the minds of these media whores.