Right you are, but Chuck is a wascally wabbit who disguised his Romney defense cleverly throughout with a carefully neutral (but see-through) plausible deniability. So much so that FReeper ejonesie22 coined the term for him ... the Swiss Ninja:
Of course, Charlie actually liked that at the time, IIRC?
You definitely know Charlie.
And some things never change.
It certainly is one of the nicer things I’ve been called.
Although I never disquised my Romney defense. I was pretty outspoken whenever I defended any candidate. And when Thompson was gone, I announced that Romney was the candidate I was going to vote for (which ended up not mattering since by the time Virginia got to vote, McCain was the nominee).
The only thing I denied was that I was working for any campaign; that was and is the truth, I’m not a political operative. If I support a candidate it’s because I believe they are the best choice; I’m lousy at making decisions like that, so I pretty much don’t pick a candidate until the field is pretty thinned. That’s why I gave money and collected signatures for multiple candidates in 2008.