I don’t remember Romney running any negative ads about Thompson, or saying anything bad about Thompson in a press release, or attacking Fred Thompson’s record in the debates.
Do you have any links to any quotes by Romney that attack Fred Thompson?
There were attacks by Mitt Romney people here on the threads, but that hardly counts. And there were unsubstantiated claims of “people associated with Romney” being behind dirty tricks, but nothing shown to be from his campaign.
Evangelicals for Mitt spread nasty emails about Thompson in the spring. Warren Tompkins (sp?), who was on the Romney payroll, turned out to be behind the Phony Fred site. It’s been documented right here throughout the campaign ad nauseum. It appears to me to be Romney’s MO to keep his own hands clean and run a dirty campaign behind the scenes for plausible deniability — the very fact that he employs Tomkins is evidence enough of that for me. If you believe differently, great — I see no point in arguing about it since I no longer have any stake in the presidential race.