If Anderson is "such a long time and close friend of Herman, worked for him on past campaigns and thinks so highly of him", then why in the hell is he working on the staff of one of the main competitors of Herman Cain!!?? That dog don't hunt. Hmmm....Somebody (I suspect) is in this for payback or revenge of some sort. Also, much like a black ops, you damned well can be sure they are going to construct a denial policy from the start if they get busted to avoid blowback, and establish plausible deniability. However, with citizen sleuthers on the internet, or making some calls around town, believe me the TRUTH of this SMEAR and its GENESIS is going to come out in no time at all. Pity the poor souls who will have to bear the brunt of it all.
Perry is now surrounding himself with GOP elites ... with ties to Rove.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/10/26/rick-perry-relaunches-2012-campaign
Rick Perry Relaunches 2012 Campaign
Perry brings in some national talent and hopes to show he’s serious about policy
By Alex M. Parker
October 26, 2011
EXCERPT
Perry’s new team includes battle-hardened veterans of national political races, to complement his inner circle of Texas strategists. It includes Joe Allbaugh, a political consultant who helped George W. Bush win the Texas governorship and the presidency, and who also worked on former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign. Perry also hired Curt Anderson, a former White House and Republican National Committee staffer who, ironically enough, worked for Romney’s campaign during the 2008 GOP primary. Also coming in is Stanton Anderson, senior counsel to the Chamber of Commerce and a former staffer for Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign, along with four other national political pros. The hires may belie Perry’s claim to be an anti-Washington outsider, but they’ll help him win some GOP elites and donors who worry that Perry is all bluster and no specifics. “The new hires this week show he’s making a serious commitment to policy,” says Steven Duffield, a Republican strategist and former RNC staffer. They’ll also help him run a national campaign, which Perry is learning can be quite different from running for a state-wide office in Texas.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/can-rick-perry-pivot-the-note/
PERRY’S NEW GUARD. Texas Governor Rick Perry brought in some reinforcements Monday for his struggling campaign, adding a slew of senior advisors and media strategists to his team. Joe Allbaugh, who ran George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign and served as director of FEMA, joins the team as a senior advisor, along with Fred Maas, who has worked with John McCain and Bob Dole. Nelson Warfield, Jim Innocenzi and Curt Anderson, who have worked on political ads in previous campaigns, are joining the campaign to help on the media side. Warfield most recently worked on Fred Thompson’s 2008 campaign and Bob Dole’s 1996 run. Anderson worked for Mitt Romney in 2008, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in 2000, and Steve Forbes in 1996. Anderson also co-wrote a book with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who endorsed Perry last month. Tony Fabrizio, a well-known Republican pollster who worked on Dole’s 1996 campaign joins the team as well. Anderson, Fabrizio and Warfield are veterans of Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s campaign. Stanton Anderson will serve as a congressional liaison for the Perry camp. “Perry knows that to be successful he needs to bring more people in,” Republican strategist Keith Appell told ABC News. “He has a very good campaign team nucleus but he now needs to become the comeback kid, of sorts. To do that, it helps to bring in battle tested people. ”
http://thepage.time.com/2011/10/23/perry-brings-in-reinforcements/
Perry Brings in Reinforcements
Sunday, October 23, 2011
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/09/perry-vs-rove-how-their-feud-got-started/245414/
Perry vs. Rove: How Their Feud Got Started
By Alex Roarty
Sep 20 2011
EXCERPTS
People on both sides of the Perry-Rove dispute describe a complicated relationship that, although strained in the past by personal enmity and hard-nosed politics, could be headed for a détente as Perry’s presidential campaign gains traction. That would benefit both men because their rift has potentially serious political implications, pitting a front-runner for the Republican nomination against the cofounder of an independent expenditure group that’s expected to provide critical financial muscle for the 2012 campaign. Rove’s role in American Crossroads, expected to raise more than $100 million in the campaign cycle, makes him an influential gateway to the donor community Perry must tap as he tries to expand his fundraising base.
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The genesis of Rove and Perry’s rivalry is a well-known story, although the details are still disputed. Rove can lay claim to launching Perry’s career: He and a cadre of others, including Perry’s longtime media consultant David Weeks, persuaded the then-Democratic state lawmaker to run as a Republican for agriculture commissioner in 1990. Rove even helped manage Perry’s campaign.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/teambush072399_fulltext.htm
Team Bush: The Iron Triangle
The three – Karl Rove, Joe Allbaugh and Karen Hughes – have formed Bush’s political inner circle since he first ran for governor in 1994. Known as the “Iron Triangle,” their control over the campaign is near absolute – as others are learning. Last week, for instance, Washington veteran and campaign spokesman David Beckwith was forced to resign over differences with the Bush team.
Rove is the campaign’s chief strategist, Allbaugh the campaign manager and Hughes the communications director. But Allbaugh has a more colorful description. He calls them: “the brain, the brawn and the bite.”
Cain: Rove deliberately talking down my campaign
October 24, 2011