Novak: Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign

The Tennessean | Jan. 09, 2008 | By Ryan Underwood

[Reagan Man]

Romney and his band of "dirty tricksters".

GO FRED!

[khnyny]

Total bs. A plant by McCain or Huckabee.

[jdm]

I did not notice Novak's Saturday column until now (which was linked in The Tennessean piece).

No one posted it on FR, apparently (did not return a hit based on an exact phrase search).

Mitt's Divided Strategy

[khnyny]

Romney has no reason to care about Thompson - think this through people, lol.

[Freee-dame]

Unsourced rumors should not be believed. This morning on a radio network news, they actually said that Thompson and Guliani were hoping to do well in upcoming primaries, but that Romney would be dropping out if didn’t win in Michigan. What!! No sources, just the DBM making up their stories.

[Neu Pragmatist]

Spinnin for the RSM ?

[khnyny]

Spinnin for the RSM ?

What does RSM mean?

[jdm]

Romneystream media?

[Servant of the Cross]

Thank you for your service to our country’s future.

[cripplecreek]

I made a deal with my cousin today. I’ll send $20 to the Thompson Campaign if he’ll send $20 to the Hunter campaign. We’re exchanging checks in the morning.

[barryg]

Said Novak: The rumors were “traced in part to Mitt Romney’s campaign, trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson.”

I don’t doubt it . .Romney has been running a negative campaign, and this seems like out of his bag of dirty tricks.

There was a push-polling scandal a couple of weeks ago that was also traced back to a Romney-linked firm in Salt Lake City.

[Neu Pragmatist]

Post 4 and 9 ....

[Nonstatist]

I cant see how this helps Romney, even secondarily.

[mamelukesabre]

See post nine.

[outofstyle]

So where did the Politico item, which quoted "Republican officials close" to the campaign, come from? From Republican rival Mitt Romney, according to syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak

Must be true then.

/sarc/

[Neu Pragmatist]

Yep , they tried to blame the Huckster , but the Huckster didn’t have the money for the phone campaigns to pull this off .

[LibLieSlayer]

I knew it... the ba$tard$!

LLS

[Ol' Sparky]

More evidence Romney is as underhanded a politician as Bill Clinton.

I have no doubt his campaign also fed Drudge the story about the Democrats desperately wanting Huckabee to win because he'd be easy to win.

Maybe this is why Willard is so unlikable.

[Josh Painter]

The heck he doesn’t! Fred is the only one of the five viable GOP candidates who is a conservative. The Romney people want him out of the race so they can lay claim to the “conservative” mantle.

This is why the “Evengelicals for Mitt” website tried to paint Fred as pro-abortion and why a Romney associate put up the “Phoney Fred” website. Romney’s people have a track record of trying to kneecap Fred’s campaign.

[Col Freeper]

[I’m still holding off on judgement here. Who whispered in a Romney official’s ear? We don’t know. And aid to walrus from Arkansas? Who knows...]

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At this juncture, that would appear to be the wisest advise.