[Cincinatus' Wife]

Nov 14, 2011: Special report: The golden age of opposition research Original source – Reuters .....Overall, Romney is thought to have the best oppo team in this Republican primary, with Yost as chief of research and Matt Rhoades, another veteran of RNC opposition research, as campaign manager. No one in the Romney organization would comment.

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....."Frustrated rivals think they know the secret: a low-profile, hard-driving Republican operative named Matt Rhoades, who is Romney’s campaign manager. Rhoades met DRUDGE, as POLITICO Editor-in-Chief John F. Harris and co-author Mark Halperin reported in their book “The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008,” when he became research director of the Republican National Committee and was introduced by his predecessor on a special trip to Miami. Rhoades has since been seen as a pipeline to the reclusive Drudge, who now has two veteran Washington reporters working on the site as well.".... Source

[TitansAFC]

Glad this thread gets the sidebar; it’s long overdue.

I see that Team Romney was quick to come at this from all angles on this thread; very quick and very constant with their talking points, too. They are truly organized, even at FR. They think we’re stupid; I am please to see that folks like you were quick to respond.

Matt Drudge has become what he always claimed to despise: an elitist media whore shilling for one candidate and propagandizing against another.

To actually have Romney campaign staff running the Drudge Website like he does in UNCONSCIENABLE! It is utterly reprehensible!

Shame on you, Matt Drudge, shame on all of you elitist media whores!

[Amanda King]

More links to stories about Drudge's inside connection to the Romney campaign:

Matt Rhoades, Romney campaign’s under-the-radar chief (Washington Post, November 20, 2011)
Romney's 2012 campaign manager is Matt Rhoades. His connection with Drudge discussed in this article

Mitt Romney leads the Drudge primary (Politico, 6/12/11)
Even though this article is from last summer, it discusses Drudge’s obvious favoritism toward Romney and Drudge’s high-level friend inside the Romney campaign.

[KansasGirl]

Yes, Drudge is knocking out every conservative candidate with relentless attacks. Romney, who will lose to Obama in a massive landslide, will be the last candidate standing. Romney will lose to Obama and take republican House and Senate candidates with him.