Update:
Blogger in contact with Western Wats resigns from Romney campaign
November 21, 2007 – 2:52 pm
Justin Hart has notified me that he has resigned from his position as a Vice Chair of the Romney campaign’s Faith and Values Steering Committee after I challenged himfor not disclosing that he was an official in the Romney campaign.
Justin had been, until today, the only person who Western Wats would speak with. This afternoon Liz Mair wrote about a discussion she had with Jeffery Welch, a senior Western Wats executive and Romney donor.
He appears to have resigned soon after contacting the Romney Iowa staffers who the Romney campaign has now admitted to misrepresenting to the press.
He resigned after being caught engaging in a coverup? Am I understanding this?
Ping to my update in my previous post.
From Justin Hart:
"Rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated"
I knew it would happen when I pulled the trigger. I knew that Soren, Dotan, Flap and others would try to make hay out of the act. And they did. They did so for propaganda. They did so with a bit of vitriol. They did so without asking me to clarify why.
First know this, I am still very much here and will be blogging non-stop for Mitt. All I did was simply remove my name from the Faith and Values Steering Committee so that Soren, Dotan, Flap and others could not use it as a weapon against me.
You see again and again, they have implied that my efforts were campaign sanctioned, that I was an "agent of the Romney campaign" and a "campaign official". All of this was hyperbole to fashion clubs against Romney and belittle my hard hitting specifics negating all the silliness out there. So, now they used my self removal to imply:
1. I worked for the campaign (false)
2. I resigned because of the current controversy (false)
3. The Romney campaign kicked me out (false)
4. I'm part of some Romney cabal secretly positioning my candidate through deceit to take over the world (hilarious)
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So, opponents made up yet another story about the Romney campaign and you, being eager to put out anything negative on Romney, jumped at the chance to smear him with this email even though you had no idea if what you were posting had any basis in fact. No fact checking, just a rush to smear. If that's what you have to do to get your guy elected, is it worth it?
You say you won't vote for a RINO but you will throw ethics to the four winds to get a guy you will vote for. If he's such a wonderful candidate, why do you have to spend so much time and effort belittling his opponents? Maybe your familiar with the scripture "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matthew 16:26) Is your candidate worth it?