NPR: Massachusetts Democrats Launch Anti-Romney Site

Massachusetts Democrats Launch Anti-Romney Site

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney

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I lived in Massachusetts when Mitt Romney was governor. And it's pretty fair to say that the Gov and the state's Democratic Party didn't get along all that well, especially after Romney decided to campaign for the GOP presidential nomination and started to reverse some of his earlier, more liberal positions. Apparently, the Democrats have decided it's time for a little payback.

As The Boston Globe reports, the state party launched today "a first-of-its-kind website that it says contains an unparalleled repository of information about Mitt Romney's record that could be used against the former governor in his White House run."

Kevin Madden, a spokesman for the Romney campaign, said, "Democrat party operatives are going to continue to peddle distortions and try and attack the governor in every which way possible."

But this is a rather unique method of attack. In addition to assembling the party's own problems with Romney as a candidate, the site offers documents for people who want to try to uncover potentially unfavorable information on their own. (Take a look at the Citizen Journalist Tool Kit.) The Globe reports:

RomneyFacts.com lays out a wealth of documents: personal financial disclosure statements he filed as governor; policy proposals he put forward in his 2002 campaign; several old campaign ads; and a unique searchable database of campaign contributions from his entire political career.

Somewhere in America, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Fred Thompson must be smiling.

2:13 PM ET | 09- 5-2007 | permalink

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Methinks they protest too loudly.

Sent by Lance | 2:19 AM ET | 09-06-2007

The 'Eight Years of I hate Bush' team are gearing up for the next 'Eight Years of I Hate Romney:' the continuing saga.

And none of it will make a whit's difference about Iraq, rising gasoline prices or the further corporatization of the global village.

I don't know about everyone else. But this exercise in futility is getting maudlin. Vladimir Putin would have had every complainer shot or ensconced in a gulag by now.

People, get used to it. In the feudal system you are the serfs. They live in the castles. They will catapult dead cows over the walls and onto your protesting phalanx.

fred call aka bigbro

Sent by fred call | 10:51 AM ET | 09-06-2007

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