One of Mitt’s finance co-chairman, Wayne Berman emails an anti-Santorum diatribe:
“There is a keen awareness in the party, particularly among fund raisers and elected officials, that Santorum is playing to hurt Romney so that Romney loses. Santorum sees himself as the nominee in 2016, and he’s playing a 2016 game. You wouldn’t continue to rip at Romney and tear at Romney and try to damage Romney if you were playing the normal, second-place game. The normal second-place approach is to rally around the nominee and become part of the leadership of the party.
“If Republicans lose…you are the leading contender the next time. … You have a legitimate contender who lost and who is staying in to try to engineer a general election loss for the nominee for their [sic] own personal agenda. And that narrative is being broadly discussed in the party. It’s helping Governor Romney with electeds, with party people, with donors and with voters.” Emphasis added.
Very tough talk. Berman didn’t do this on his own without permission from the tippy-top.
Embattled Farmers 