Posted on 11/05/2013 6:22:28 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
To think, we’ve spent two years believing it was Romney that had the nastiest, most relentless seek-and-destroy oppo operation on the GOP side. Now I feel like Frank Drebin discovering the missing evidence in the Kelner case. My god — he was innocent.
If you believe the sources in “Double Down,” Team Huntsman feeding a mega-smear of Romney to Harry Reid was the tip of the iceberg.
1994, his wife Cheri left [Mitch] Daniels for a married man, but then the couple reconciled and remarried. “In the years since, she had never spoken publicly about the turmoil, and Mitch had done so only once – pithily telling the Indianapolis Star, ‘If you like happy endings, you’ll love our story,’” wrote authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.
But then, as Cheri Daniels was about to keynote a fundraising dinner for Indiana Republicans – considered to be a big step toward her husband throwing his hat in – “an official for another GOP prospect” leaked the phone number of Cheri Daniels’ ex-husband’s ex-wife, who called her “vengeful” and a “narcissist,” the book reported.
“In the Daniels orbit, all fingers pointed at the Romney camp, and in particular to [Romney's campaign manager Matt] Rhoades, for shopping the ex-wife’s cell-phone and e-mail address to the press,” the “Double Down” authors wrote.
But, in reality, the person behind the leak was Matt David, presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman’s communications director-to-be, Heilemann and Halperin reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Look, apparently the dirt was real. Much better for it to come out early than if ol’ Herm had actually got nominated and THEN it came out!
Hunstman was a Dem plant of course
Just declare open season on ALL Republican “campaign managers” & “strategists”.
Many, many so called "Republicans" are Dem plants.
It's been going on for years.
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