[bcsco]

The Web site, PhoneyFred.org, was created by Wesley Donehue, a business partner of Warren Tompkins, a South Carolina political operative on the Romney payroll and Romney's top adviser in the early voting state.

The site was created without the knowledge of Tompkins or Romney, said Romney spokesman Kevin Madden.

Uh, OK. So, this guy is a business partner of Tompkins, but neither Tompkins nor Romney knew of this. Either Tompkins/Romney are very inept businessmen, or very disingenuous at spin.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Do you know everything being done by your business partners, or co-workers?

You think that his partner, knowing the value of deniability, WOULDn’T set up this site without telling him, precisely to keep that deniability?

As soon as they were told about it, Romney acted to have the site taken down. Most people who know about the site ONLY know about it because of Fred Thompson supporters posting about it.

He acted quickly and decisively. He denounced the tactic.