Mitt Romney Comes to Palin's Defense

Mitt Romney is not happy with his advisers for talking trash about Sarah Palin in a piece in Time. The Hill’s Twitter Room says the trouble started Thursday with a Mark Halperin piece in Time magazine that cited an adviser to Romney saying “She’s not a serious human being.” Another Romney intimate warns, “If she’s standing up there in a debate and the answers are more than 15 seconds long, she’s in trouble.” Twitter Room writes, “Trying to limit the damage from mocking a highly popular figure in the Republican base, Romney took to Twitter Friday to distance himself from his anonymous aides. He tweeted:

TIME says unnamed advisors disparaged @SarahPalinUSA. Anonymous numbskulls. She’s proven her smarts; they’ve disproven theirs.

Meanwhile on Sarah Palin’s Twitter feed, she was tweeting up a storm Sunday, talking about the Ground Zero mosque controversy. Her original tweet said:

Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn’t it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate.

She later replaced the tweet with:

Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.

But she still stands by her use of the (made up) word "refudiate:"

“‘Refudiate,’ ‘misunderestimate,’ ‘wee-wee’d up.’ English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!”