If its damaging enough, it would deal a fatal blow to a challenger.
Let’s face it: Obama can’t win on anything positive so the only way he could win is if he could get Romney to self-destruct.
He and his Chicago thugs have perfected the art of removing threatening rivals before Election Day.
As it would an incumbent. But your alarmism is fatalistic in the extreme since this is nothing new and in fact has been around for years and years. My understanding is Romney was called as a witness in the business end of the trial i.e. the value of the stock included in the settlement and he was in no way (as some have insinuated) involved with the wife in any sort of relationship. Had that been the case it would have been brought out long, long before this in fact years ago when it was a story in the 1980's. In a divorce involving relatively big money like this one there is always a dispute as to the actual value of the assets to be divided. If the award to the wife was % million and it was to be in the form of stock and cash, etc it would play to the benefit of the husband to value the per share price high so he would have to turn loose less shares to make up the amount he had to give his ex. It appears Romney's testimony involved what the actual value of the stock was which in the end was an opinion all be it an informed one given Romney's area of expertise. In the end what ever gets released if anything will be testimony and all of that is open to interpretation and people are known to lie and lie badly in emotionally heated cases such as a divorce. Alred is known to a great many people across the country and her modus operandi is obvious and my feeling is way more than enough people will see this as exactly what it is, a blatant attempt to influence a national election for a Democrat.