CNN Contributor Robert Zimmerman Compares Sarah Palin To Snooki

Thursday morning, a segment on CNN’s America’s Newsroom turned to a topic often discussed this election season: the true conservatism of the GOP candidates. Contributors Robert Zimmerman and Will Cain responded to Sarah Palin‘s comment that she still doubts Mitt Romney‘s conservatism. Zimmerman used the opportunity to compare Palin to a pop culture fixture we all know: The Jersey Shore’s Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi:

Having to defend your credentials to Sarah Palin, well that’s sort of like having to defend your sense of character and style to Snooki or Nicki Minaj. Or defending your sense of history to Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann. Certainly the idea that Sarah Palin’s setting the standard, after she quit her governorship mid-term, is hardly the issue.

Cain was on the same page, commenting earlier that he’s “not going to award Sarah Palin the high practice of defining conservatism.” Dismissing Palin’s credibility, Zimmerman proceeded to highlight what he thinks is the real issue:

The reason we have this debate about Mitt Romney, the reason conservatives are so uncomfortable to him, and so resistant of him, is because he’s changed his positions on so many key issues. Be it the social conservatism issue, whether he’s now supporting anti-contraceptives programs, like the personhood bill, or whether he’s changed his position on many economic questions.

“So the real issue,” Zimmerman concluded, “is Mitt Romney’s own credibility.”

Watch the clip, via CNN:

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