[NotFinished]

Dirty tricks or not, it’s pretty hard to deny that whoever wrote that speech for Ward copied from Obama’s speech, which was kind of a stupid thing to do. I don’t doubt that Ward would have made a good conservative congressman, but I don’t think he could have beat Minnick, he has too much of a carpetbagger taint to him. I expect we’ll be hearing soon that he’s heading back home to Virginia.

[meadsjn]

Not so. You can read the actual passages above. Baumbach admitted he had to do extensive editing, with multiple attempts, to make the passages appear to be the same as Obama’s speech.

[Delphinium]

Ward copied several papers word for word.

Ward was a moderate John McCain guy who came to Idaho to put out conservative Bill Sali.

Ward not only disregarded the conservative, he was down right hateful to some of them. Then he figured out that the voters vote conservative, especially in that district, so he changed his stands as he went along.

This video that took him down, was only what the conservative knew all along, he was a phony.