Posted on 01/03/2008 12:24:15 PM PST by Maelstorm
Yea that definetly counts. Difference is that at least Romney is paying for his adds, Huckabee found the media free advertisement loophole to exploit.
If this was the traditional caucus, you are dead on right. But basically the Republicans are trying a school house vote tonight. Everybody file in, don’t look at your neighbors paper, and cast a secret ballot.
If the driver of the van who brought you out in the cold can see how you vote (traditional), then you are going to stand under the sign he tells you to. If he can’t, you might resent his candidate for a last minute dirty trick and vote for some other fellow.
Say what you want, be he didn’t run them on television.
Yes a news program ran the ad once, but big deal.
I haven’t yet seen them.
I think he should have run them. It’s never a good thing to not respond to a negative attacker.
“Yeah, I saw it too. Funny stuff... the Fred spokesman trashes Politico for putting out the story without any factual basis... and then proceeds to suggest (without any factual basis) that Romney’s camp planted it.
nice.”
And of course, Fred Head here at FR immediately take it as gospel that it originated with the Romney campaign. Have people here lost all common sense???
Nina Easton's husband is a consultant to the McCain campaign.
wow, did Romney do that...I am shocked, SHOCKED that a Massuchusetts politician would stoop so low../sarc
Mitt is a POS.................
I was listening to Fred last night on Mark Levin and he sounded very positive about Iowa and his chances. He suggested his people are detecting s last minute surge of support there and probably Romney got nervous and decided to take him out. Romney supporters are not strongly committed, as the Huctsters are.
“WHAT NEXT? Where was romney when Kennedy was shot?
Romney gets blamed for everything that isn’t assigned to Bush.”
That seems to be the long and short of it! It kills me that Romney is the victim of a shady political tactic and gets accused of doing it to himself. Then another candidate gets attacked in the same way and it’s still Romney’s fault. Notice a trend???
So, Mitt feels threatened by FRed.... Stick it to ‘im, FRed.
They’re all over the net. You need to put the Kool Aid down and smell the coffee, this is typical Huckster.
Yes. Fred would want to leak a story that would keep some of his supporters from bothering to go to the caucus for him or that would cause them to turn out for someone else because they now believe a vote for him would be wasted since he's leaving the race.
That would be very shrewd.
I was going to change my tagline, but I don't think Mitt will be around long enough to warrant it.
Bill Curry says he ``wouldn't believe Romney if he were telling me his blood type while lying on an operating table.''
Romney looks like the jut-jawed Ward Cleaver, but he acts like Eddie Haskell
This is bunk. Romney is not behind it.
In Iowa, I saw one from Huck this morning aimed at Mitt.
You don't leak something reinforcing the most negative ideas about your campaign. That would be like Romney leaking that he'd be calling Salt Lake before he made any decisions so that he could refute it. Or Huckabee leaking that He would actually be in charge if he won the election so that he could apologize for it. You just don't do it. (Huckabee might still do this, however.)
Impressions are too easily made to risk putting a bad one out there just to "get air time." I had breakfast with 3 colleagues who are not political junkies this morning. They all said, "I like Thompson. He just doesn't want it bad enough." When I asked them why they thought that, they had no idea.
No suprise from the Romney Sleaze Machine.
No suprise from the Romney Sleaze Machine.
Getting yourself not some but LOTS of free air-time, talking about how you are in the race, blaming another campaign, and getting YOUR message out is actually very schrewd.
I noticed that Political has not taken the story down, and they very explicitly quote “a Thompson source.”
Does that mean that they are standing by the story - including the source?
Willard lies, he flip-flops and uses dirty tactics just like the original Slick Willie. If this clown won the nomination, he’d destroy the GOP and any conservatives willing to associate with him.
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