The Web site, PhoneyFred.org, was created by Wesley Donehue, a business partner of Warren Tompkins, a South Carolina political operative on the Romney payroll and Romney's top adviser in the early voting state.
The connection still stands!
Posted on 09/11/2007 8:50:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I just paid $52,500 in medical bills and care flight bills out of my own pocket from the injury of an independent sub-contractor by another independent sub-contractor (which I don’t legally owe, according to everyone) because the roughneck who was hurt was ultimately helping my company and it was the right thing to do, so yes.
Legal or not, the buck stopped with me.
YES....I would think it would fall to my responsibility to ensure that people I hired acted in my or my companys best interest. I would follow through to make sure that the company I hired in my behalf took responsibility for those under their watch. Lacking that...I think should reflect on my own capabilities as a responsible leader.
Yes, I caught that after I posted, and was about to clarify when I saw this response.
he works for the same company
Well, that's a little ingenuous... he's a business partner, not just a casual co-worker. I would be more willing to accept that the guy acted on his own if this didn't fit the pattern of operation I've witnessed from the Romney campaign since April.
Do you know everything being done by your business partners, or co-workers?
You think that his partner, knowing the value of deniability, WOULDn’T set up this site without telling him, precisely to keep that deniability?
As soon as they were told about it, Romney acted to have the site taken down. Most people who know about the site ONLY know about it because of Fred Thompson supporters posting about it.
He acted quickly and decisively. He denounced the tactic.
Just like Mitt’s security force..
The site was down before the newspapers reported about it. As soon as Romney heard about it, it was taken down.
The only reason we know what was on the site is that people are posting it and newspapers are reporting it.
And probably someone has a cache of it somewhere.
Actually, it was the Washington Post that found and wrote about the smear site. And for it being not associated with the campaign, it somehow disappeared real fast once the Post contacted Romney's folks.
The man responsible was not his staffer, he worked with Thompson, who was his advisor.
And he took “responsibility”, in that he reacted immediately, denounced the site, and the site was taken down.
I guess you can go through life not believing anything anybody says even when you have no evidence to the contrary. Sometimes you will be correct to doubt, and your hunches will be right.
It’s just not a fun way to live, always thinking ill of others and assuming you are being lied to.
I guess that puts Tompkins in the ‘inept businessman’ category.
Yes, I knew what my business partners/co-workers were doing when it came to something affecting the business I was in. I worked with people of integrity I trusted. It’s not hard to find them if one looks close enough. Or, hard enough.
He was pretty dumb to do so using the firm's resources, that's for sure. (In the initial stories, someone posted info that the "phonyfred" site was hosted as a sub-domain to the consulting firm.)
The Web site, PhoneyFred.org, was created by Wesley Donehue, a business partner of Warren Tompkins, a South Carolina political operative on the Romney payroll and Romney's top adviser in the early voting state.
The connection still stands!
There are anti sites out there on every candidate. In this day and age, it seems a little naive (and thin-skinned) not to expect it.
It is nothing compared to what the Clinton machine will dish out. If you can't stand the heat....
Wonder where all the articles are about Brownback's anti-Fred website?
Just like usual, anything Romney is treated with a double-standard by Fredheads.
Given that, what does this say about the advisor, that he cannot even control his own business partner in what is clearly a very sensitive area for their firm? What's wrong with a memo to the entire staff of the firm saying "there will be absolutely NO activity related to the Republican Presidential nomination or candidates without it going through Toompkins first?
I also find it hard to believe that Tompkins' partner just did this thing all on his own, without the outright direction, or at least tacit approval, of Tompkins.
If I was in Romney's place, I'd ask Tompkins to resign, as a way of getting this thing behind the campaign, and as a warning to all other advisors/ad firms that they had better not engage in this kind of activity. But that is me.
Still, if Mitt doesn’t fire Tompkins, he has tacitly endorsed the website and it message. Plausible deniability has its limits.
Correcto!
Sort of like hitlery didn’t know anything about Hsu.... yeah right.
Well, that’s good then! If Romney didn’t have control it may have been left up. Good use of authority on Mitt’s part.
Now as long as the reporters report accurately no harm done.
Wonder if the Wayback Machine caught it.
What SISSIES !!!!
Negative Campaigning just isn’t what it used to be...
Bush castrated McCain and everyone KNEW it was Bush doing it.
But NOOOO... A Spoof site is all “Bad Mitt Baaaaaad Mitt”.
BAH.
I wish I had seen it... It was probably FUNNY !!
Get a life for the luv !!
Is this the Hillary Clinton defence for the Republican side? I don’t know. I don’t remember.
Plausible deniability was the intent, no doubt. But the deniability of this sleaze is no longer plausible.
The story here is that Mitt had people do this who were dumb enough to get caught.
Yeah right!
Not that I care, I wasn’t pulling for Romney anyway.
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