[2ndDivisionVet]

Oh! Well, nevermind!

[stm]

Of course he’s going to distance himself from it, it blew up in his face. I don’t know how much he approved of it but I have a hard time thinking he didn’t know about it.

[MeanWestTexan]

No apology, just “not our fault.”

Huh.

[sitetest]

Plausible deniability.

[kevkrom]

This would be far more believable if Romney-affiliated groups haven't been attempting to smear Thompson for over five months now.

Of course the campaign is going to deny it, it was set up with "plausible deniability" from the get-go.

But let's assume Romney's telling the truth here, for the sake of argument. He has a remarkable tendency to choose losers for his top state operatives: Larry Craig of Idaho (state chair) gets busted for soliciting gay sex in a public men's room, and now Wesley Donehue of South Carolina (top state advisor) gets caught smearing Thompson with juvenile tactics. Some "CEO" there.

[Greg F]

Yah, sure, Romney didn't get even a chuckle out of the "shhhhh, remember, you never have seen this" review of the dirty tricks of his campaign. Candidates NEVER see this stuff.

I'm shocked . . .

[bcsco]

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 site was created without the knowledge of Tompkins or Romney, said Romney spokesman Kevin Madden.

Uh, OK. So, this guy is a business partner of Tompkins, but neither Tompkins nor Romney knew of this. Either Tompkins/Romney are very inept businessmen, or very disingenuous at spin.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I bet this one won’t get posted 5 times by Fredheads.

[DBrow]

If Romney does it correctly, millions more will view the page than if he had not publicized it.

Then they can take it down and move on to another publicity campaign.

“Hey everybody, look at this site I don’t approve of!”

[George W. Bush]

Romney needs to disavow this site and its creator. I expect that will be said pretty prominently to the press.

Romney likes to make his own attacks personally, I've noticed. It's part of how he hopes to demonstrate that he's willing to take the fight to the Dims as our nominee. So this undermines that theme of his campaign as well as his image as a "clean" candidate who doesn't go for dirty-tricks campaigns.

[mewzilla]

Oh, criminy. He's trotting out the "meddlesome priest" defense.

Way to go, Mitt!

[upchuck]

Romney didn’t approve the creation of the web site?

You’ve got to be kidding.

[trisham]

we discovered it was created by an individual who works at an Internet firm who parked the site temporarily on the company server space of a firm whose financial partner is a consultant to the campaign — Mr. Tompkins," said Madden, who later identified the individual as Donehue. "Mr. Tompkins did not know about the development of the site."

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Dirty politics, and Romney's guy is involved, regardless of how they spin it.

[RachelFaith]

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 !!

[hoosierpearl]

Is this the Hillary Clinton defence for the Republican side? I don’t know. I don’t remember.

[Vanbasten]

Yeah right!

Not that I care, I wasn’t pulling for Romney anyway.

[org.whodat]

Oh! Well, nevermind!

The question is, is this answer the flip are is it the flop. One would be opposite the other. LOL

[org.whodat]

Oh! Well, nevermind!

The question is, is this answer the flip are is it the flop. One would be opposite the other. LOL

[pillut48]

I also heard the democrats didn't approve of that shameful moveon.org ad in the NYSlimes attacking General Patraeus too! Glad there's still some people with morals in this world! /sarc

[Mr J]

Plausible deniability?

[LibLieSlayer]

...and hildebeast didn’t know that she had taken illegal chicom money... or that her hollyweird friends had given illegally to her! Yeah... right Mitt!

LLS