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(Unconfirmed Vanity) Fox News Reports: Romney Campaign blamed for planting false story on Thompson D
Vanity Shepard Smith's Biography ^ | Jan 03,2008 | Fox News

Posted on 01/03/2008 12:24:15 PM PST by Maelstorm

I was just watching FoxNews Shepard Smith. The Romney campaign is being fingered as the source for the phony story about the drop out.

One of the Romney jerks is on making snide remarks.

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KEYWORDS: dirtytricks; fredthompson; ia2008; politico; romney; thompson
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To: mnehrling

Yea that definetly counts. Difference is that at least Romney is paying for his adds, Huckabee found the media free advertisement loophole to exploit.


61 posted on 01/03/2008 12:39:09 PM PST by Domandred (Eagles soar, but unfortunately weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
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To: Petronski

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.


62 posted on 01/03/2008 12:39:19 PM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: mnehrling
“Huckabee’s little trick of not running negative by showing everyone I think counts too.”

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.

63 posted on 01/03/2008 12:39:32 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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To: buckeyenation

“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???


64 posted on 01/03/2008 12:40:50 PM PST by VegasBaby (*sigh* Are the primaries over yet???)
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To: Miss Didi; donnab
Wrong

Nina Easton's husband is a consultant to the McCain campaign.

65 posted on 01/03/2008 12:41:21 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

wow, did Romney do that...I am shocked, SHOCKED that a Massuchusetts politician would stoop so low../sarc
Mitt is a POS.................


66 posted on 01/03/2008 12:41:42 PM PST by Alright_on_the_LeftCoast
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To: TornadoAlley3

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.


67 posted on 01/03/2008 12:42:18 PM PST by milwguy (........)
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To: 1Old Pro

“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???


68 posted on 01/03/2008 12:42:34 PM PST by VegasBaby (*sigh* Are the primaries over yet???)
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To: Maelstorm

So, Mitt feels threatened by FRed.... Stick it to ‘im, FRed.


69 posted on 01/03/2008 12:43:04 PM PST by Clara Lou (Thompson '08)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

They’re all over the net. You need to put the Kool Aid down and smell the coffee, this is typical Huckster.


70 posted on 01/03/2008 12:43:20 PM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: PurpleMan
Maybe, just maybe, someone in Fred’s campaign “leaked” it thus creating a free discussion about Fred. Sure got him air time on the day of. If true, pretty shrewd.

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.

71 posted on 01/03/2008 12:44:12 PM PST by Route66 (America's Main Street - - - Fred D. Thompson / Consistent Conservative...The One with Gravitas)
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To: Maelstorm
I found a couple of one liners about Mitty today.

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

72 posted on 01/03/2008 12:44:13 PM PST by colorcountry (To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Clara Lou

This is bunk. Romney is not behind it.


73 posted on 01/03/2008 12:44:19 PM PST by VegasBaby (*sigh* Are the primaries over yet???)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

In Iowa, I saw one from Huck this morning aimed at Mitt.


74 posted on 01/03/2008 12:46:05 PM PST by Frank L
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To: PurpleMan
Maybe, just maybe, someone in Fred’s campaign “leaked” it thus creating a free discussion about Fred.

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.

75 posted on 01/03/2008 12:50:19 PM PST by the808bass
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To: Maelstorm

No suprise from the Romney Sleaze Machine.


76 posted on 01/03/2008 12:50:46 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
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To: Maelstorm

No suprise from the Romney Sleaze Machine.


77 posted on 01/03/2008 12:50:47 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
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To: Route66

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.


78 posted on 01/03/2008 12:51:33 PM PST by PurpleMan
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To: PurpleMan

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?


79 posted on 01/03/2008 12:52:11 PM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: Maelstorm

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.


80 posted on 01/03/2008 12:52:31 PM PST by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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