Romney’s people did the rumor thing but that is not what killed him in Iowa. The big thing is that Huckabee took Iowa. And he did it by organizing better at the grass roots level. The Huckster turned out church networks and homeschoolers who drummed up support for him and mobilized all of their friends and family. In the Iowa Cacus all you needed to do was bring your extended family with you to a precinct. For any given one you only needed to win 10 or 20 extra votes to win. So if you call up all your aunts and uncles that were not planning to go, and talk to people in your church, or local homeschool support group then you are good to go. It pisses me off off to admit it, as a homeschool grad and Fred supporter, but what won it for the Huckster in Iowa was 100% to homeschooler & church networks. My wife and I were there and voted for Fred so this is not speculation.
I feel reasonably comfortable in strongly suspecting Mike Murphy now...but I could be wrong.
That is a long way from blaming any candidate. I'm no noob to campaigns, if you have "dirty tricks squad" you keep 2-3 degrees of separation from them and the candidate. The candidate might know "something" is going on, but not what and no idea who.There are things I've done that I regret. There are things I've done that were marginal, but I have no regret.
I never did anything against a conservative or even anybody claiming to be a conservative. Even the stuff I did do was legal and accurate
I just want to know who these people are...I suspect they will do the same to Palin.