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Chill folks. If there was really anything here, do you not think one of Romney’s opponents in the 2008 or 2012 primary would have discovered it before now (they spend millions on this sort of OP Research). In fact Romney would have had to disclose it in 2008 when he was being vetted as McCain’s potential VP. Obama/Axelrod/Allred are desperate and grasping at straws, just ignore them.

There's another point to this as well: the first person a good, competent campaign does opposition research on is ... it's own candidate. This would certainly include reviewing (verbally, behind closed doors, with the candidate himself) the content/nature of things like sealed court testimony.

Especially in a situation where the opponent (in this case Barack Obama) has a good track record of obtaining such.

So if the Romney Campaign knew about this and didn't prepare for it, we're talking about one of the most egregious cases of campaign management malfeasance in history. If Romney knew about it and didn't reveal it to his campaign managers, he richly deserves what he's going to get.

What worries me though about this isn't either of the above, because I really do think that whatever it is Romney told his people about it and they are prepared to deal with a release.

What worries me is that Allred may be going into this knowing that the records won't be unsealed. But they WILL generate controversy and attention, to which Romney (being under the gag order) won't be able to respond to. So all sorts of speculation will be prompted and will take place.

That's a pretty difficult thing to defend against. Making me wonder if the Harry Reid accusations against Romney's taxes weren't so much of a serious attack as a trial run to gauge how the Romney Campaign would respond to allegations that would be hard to, if not impossible to, disprove.