Posted on 11/03/2011 12:31:01 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
......Days after I got into the presidential race in 2007, I was greeted with a website, PhoneyFred.org, described in the media at the time as an anti Fred Thompson smear site. You couldnt really tell who was behind it, but we learned of it from the Democratic National Committee, which made ample use of it. We assumed that they had created it. However, a reporter at the Washington Post (of all people) decided to find out who was behind the site. After a lot of effort, she traced it to an executive of TTS Strategies, a South Carolina consulting firm run by J. Warren Tompkins, one of the most notorious hardball political operatives in the country.
Politicians of opposing campaigns were known to get what was called the Warren Treatment. He ran George W. Bushs 2000 campaign, in which anonymous flyers and telephone calls accused John McCain of fathering an illegitimate child with a black woman.
In 2007, he was running Mitt Romneys campaign in South Carolina, where Mitt was behind the rest of us in the polls. Of course, when confronted, both Tompkins and Mitt were shocked to learn that a rogue employee (who ran Tompkinss office) was running such a website (out of the office), and the site was taken down immediately. One of the more benign and amusing things the site accused me of was being a flip flopper. I kid you not.
This doesnt mean that Mitt is behind the Herman Cain hit piece. Id like to think that he and his extensive staff, many of them with training in the political dark arts has learned....
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Somehow someway, we need to get DeMint or Palin in the race.
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I was angry at DeMint and my girl Sarah for not getting into the race. But, this latest Cain “scandal”, “smear campaign” or whatever, is exactly why a lot of good people do not run.
I hate Romney and Perry and will not vote for either.
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Wow! That’s pretty strong language. I don’t “hate” them but I sure as heck don’t like them. If Herman does get derailed by this, I’m hoping his support goes to Newt.
"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."
--- Admiral Josh Painter - (Fred Dalton Thompson) Hunt for Red October - 1990
Apparently the tricks are back in now ...... as long as conservatives are getting hosed with them.
And as all bien-pensant JournoList fans know, Rep. Issa's committee, by demanding documents from the Obama Justice Department, is ipso facto engaging in unfair "dirty tricks". Because Issa is dirty, the GOP is dirty, and everyone to the right of Leon Trotsky is dirty. And deserves People's Revolutionary Justice (one-pistol firing squad), if the truth be told. Just ask them.
He was not very prepared to address it this year.
Even a hypocrite has constraints on his behavior. Or would you rather be "tried" by a jury of value-free scientific materialists who regard you as a reactionary throwback who needs to be pruned from the U.S. population?
Up yours Clara Poo. Perry has the most to gain from a Cain snafu. I will wait to see the smoke to clear before making a conclusion on this matter.
LOL, that's right. Funny thing is that Huckabee was right. The early writings of the Mormon founders said Satan was the brother of Jesus.
While true, what does that have to do with electing a President?
This is but one reason why I don’t like that used car salesman.
Religion is critical to a man's character. It's the source of his core values.
Romney can't distinguish between the truth and a false religion that promotes Satan to be the brother of Jesus and demotes Jesus to just a man subsequently promoted to Godhood by the infinite chain of Gods before him.
Romney is not qualified to be President, because his judgement is obviously and critically impaired.
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