While going through the DNC blog I came across this story from this morning:
Ironically, McCain has hired Terry Nelson, a strategist with his own long history of dirty tricks who said he admired the tactics used against McCain in South Carolina in 2000.
Just in time for the debate tonight, a smear attack on Mitt Romney and his Mormon beliefs. Coincidence?
The Spartanburg Herald-Journal reported that some unsigned literature attacking Mormonism was being mailed to some households in the state. The literature was described as “an eight-page diatribe,” with the title “Mormons in Contemporary American Society: A Politically Dangerous Religion?” It did not mention Romney, who is Mormon, but was seen by politically active South Carolinians as a direct attack on his candidacy, the paper said.
Of course, Mitt Romney has hired Warren Tompkins, Bush’s South Carolina chief strategist in 2000–and one of the principal architects of the smear campaign against McCain. Watch out, folks. This could get ugly.
That came earlier than I expected.
Something to say?
