From Washington Post:
A top adviser to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney appears to be behind the launch of a new Web site attacking GOP presidential rival Fred D. Thompson during his first week on the trail.
The site, PhoneyFred.org, painted an unflattering picture of Thompson, dubbing the former TV star and senator Fancy Fred, Five O'clock Fred, Flip-Flop Fred, McCain Fred, Moron Fred, Playboy Fred, Pro-Choice Fred, Son-of-a-Fred and Trial Lawyer Fred. Shortly after a Washington Post reporter made inquiries about the site to the Romney campaign, it was taken down.
Before it vanished, the front page of the Web site featured a picture of Thompson depicted in a frilly outfit more befitting a Gilbert and Sullivan production than a presidential candidate.
Under the heading "Playboy Fred," the site asked the provocative question: "Once a Pro-Choice Skirt Chaser, Now Standard Bearer of the Religious Right?"
Nowhere on the site was any indication of who was responsible for it. But a series of inquiries led to "Under the Power Lines," the Web site of the political consulting firm of J. Warren Tompkins, Romney's lead consultant in South Carolina. Tompkins did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Late yesterday afternoon, a spokesman for Thompson called on Romney to fire Tompkins.
"There is no room in our party for this kind of smut. As the top executive of his own campaign, Governor Romney should take full responsibility for this type of high-tech gutter politics and issue an immediate apology," said spokesman Todd Harris. "If this is true, Governor Romney should exercise some of his much-touted executive acumen and immediately terminate anyone related to this outrage."
5 comments:
Mitt doesn't get his hands dirty he let's others do his dirty work. Mitt is showing voters what he teaches his sons, play dirty and turn your back on your friends when they get in trouble. Look out for yourself and lie/cheat/steal to do it. Fred doesn't need anyone to do him in he does it all by himself. Don't forget the war in Iraq per Fred is because the men aren't allowed to smoke.
Oven Mitt should pay Biloxi for all of the Anti-Fred stuff here, too. At least this stuff is more creative.
>;-)
Kittybowtie,
Did you think I should take Romney to court? Believe me, you know that I have very much court experience. ;-)
Oh, and thank you for the compliment about the creativity.
This fight for the WH is still young, and things will get uglier. What is going to get ugly is seeing more Rudia, ewwwwwww, yuk.
Hegel is out and he was probably the only Republican running that I could have stomached. It may be time to leave the TV off until sometime mid November of 2008.
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