Sarah Palin?s advice to Mitt Romney: 'Go rogue'

Mitt Romney has been getting lots of gratuitous advice from fellow Republicans worried about what they see as a presidential campaign slipping toward defeat. Some want Paul Ryan to play a more active role. Sarah Palin says the Romney campaign needs a ?come to Jesus? moment.

By Brad Knickerbocker,?Staff writer / September 22, 2012

Republican vice-presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan greets people at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland , Fla. on Friday.

Scott Wheeler/The Lakeland Ledger/AP

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Mitt Romney has been getting lots of gratuitous advice from fellow Republicans and conservatives worried about what they see as a presidential campaign that?s slipping toward defeat.

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As usual, Sarah Palin is the most direct and colorful. In a statement to the Weekly Standard on Saturday, she put it this way:

"With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should 'go rogue' and not hold back from telling the American people the true state of our economy and national security. They need to continue to find ways to break through the filter of the liberal media to communicate their message of reform."

?"America desperately needs to have a 'come to Jesus' moment in discussing our big dysfunctional, disconnected, and debt-ridden federal government,"?the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate told the conservative magazine.

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To some Republican kibitzers, ?going rogue? means unleashing Rep. Paul Ryan, Mr. Romney?s running mate and a relative youngster who seemed to bring some pizzazz to an otherwise staid ticket.

?They not only need to use [Ryan] out on the trail more effectively, they need to have more of him rub off on Mitt because I think Mitt thinks that way but he?s gotta be able to articulate that?. I think too many people are restraining him from telling [his vision],? Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker told a radio interviewer Friday.

Where?s the evidence of Romney?s so-called ?bold choice? in picking Ryan? others ask.

?Even in Wisconsin, I think he?s being underused,? Charlie Sykes, the radio host who interviewed Gov. Walker, told Politico. ?I guess what?s frustrating is especially now that we?re embroiled in this conversation about the makers versus the takers, where is Paul Ryan? He is eloquent, he knows the numbers, he can frame this in a very compelling way. The fact that he is not front and center on some of this is, I think, a lost opportunity.?

Even in Wisconsin ? Ryan?s home state ? an NBC poll shows Obama leading Romney by 5 percentage points, and that?s just part of recent polling news the Romney campaign must find troubling.

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