Don’t be Hasty, this smells more like Texas Style LBJ politics.
Don’t be hasty about that either. Jonathan Martin was just on TV and said Politico has been working on this story for weeks, and implied he has talked to the women. This story did not happen overnight.
Also, do you remember if Politico broke the painted-over rock at the hunting lease story?
Why couldn’t it be a Dem/MSM hit all the way? They have a long history of 1) racism, 2) trying to clear the field of minority and woman Republicans as early as possible, before the general public learns that such people exist, and 3) driving wedges between and among Republicans (by, eg, getting a finger-pointing game going among us), all of which are objects of this ridiculous smear attempt.
I’d say it’s more likely to be Dem operatives than any Republican, as they have the most to gain from both the underlying allegations and the mutually destructive accusations that fall out from it.
I think it smells more like current Chicago, Illinois style politics, but I am only guessing. I know no more about it than you do.