This is an image of PhonyFred, a website that lampooned the aging boy wonder of the GOP Fred Thompson. It is only an image because the website was taken down shortly after the Washington Post election blog linked the site to Romney's campaign through common stakeholder Warren Tompkins, a Romney consultant and, Post detective work reveals, an apparent owner of PhonyFred.com.
The dirty tricks specialist for Romney has a rather disgusting past. He was a chief strategist for Bush in 2000, when John McCain was savaged by a malicious whisper campaign suggesting his children had dark skin. Attacking the skin color of an adopted child - that's a resume builder for GOP campaigns.
Now, isn't this special. Here we have Mitt Romney, a candidate who should be under investigation by bunko squads for deceptive labeling, accusing Fred Thompson of being a phony. It wouldn't matter if Fred had a three dollar bill tattooed on his forehead he could never be the symbol for phoniness that the surrealist political artist Mitt is. This really may be a cornerstone of GOP campaigns akin to running a sober man out ahead of drunk bar patrons at closing time to draw away the cops attention. Mitt Romney's sole purpose in this race may be making other candidates illusions about believing the dark ages creed of the religious right more tolerable. Fred Thompson may indeed be as phony as that three dollar bill but he isn't as phony as Mitt.
All the GOP has is phoniness. Is it any wonder they have to disguise their messages? It doesn't matter how rancorous a debate over health care plans or energy policy might get as long as the debate from Democratic candidates is over real ideas instead of this sort of inane bs we at least are dealing with people who don't need to deceive the public to change the topic from what is important. The core of Conservativive government is clearly taking your money and giving it's benefit to someone much wealthier. Is it any wonder they desperately need to distract voters from the real buisness of government onto these inanities. Let's never put up from this kind of deceptive fakery from our candidates! We don't need two GOP circuses.