Who Hired Moore-Information? [UPDATE]
By Erick Posted in 2008 — Comments (27) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
The New Hampshire Attorney General wants your help. The AG has been able to identify the company that retained Western-Watts to make the anti-Mormon push poll calls before Thanksgiving.
The problem, though, is that the company that did it, Moore-Information, is fighting the AG's subpoena. A hearing won't be scheduled until after the New Hampshire primary.
As a result, ladies and gentlemen, we still don't know which party was behind the calls. Speculation will continue.
But, if you have information, go here and let the New Hampshire Attorney General know about it. This information could open up the primaries a bit more.
[UPDATE:] This is a bit of a no-brainer, but it seems pretty clear to me that a Republican leaning person or group is behind these calls. Moore-Information is a solidly Republican group.
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Sorry I didn't realize this company only works for Republicans. However, Clinton could have had a member of the VRWC for cover.
Michael at PoliGazette and John at Right Wing News are working on this story, too -- probably others as well.
Joe Carter thinks (hopes?) this can bring Romney down.
as far as supporting him.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
Machiavelli always said it was important to have a Fall Guy, one who will do your dirty work, I think Joe Carter is that person.
I think Carter is behind the calls himself here's why: Make anti-mormon calls and then insert remarks praising John McCain. How many times during these last few weeks have we heard Huckabee's Relentless praise for John McCain?
McCain did not do these, if I remember correctly he was quoted as saying that he felt there was a special place in he** for people who do that sort of thing.
Neither did Huckabee officially. It would be more believable that the offshoot group did it but Carter knew of it And signed off on it without telling Huckabee so that he could keep running the nice campaign, hence plausible deniability.
It can't be Michael Moore. He specializes in Moore Disinformation.
Sorry, I forgot this. That the polling firm is fighting the subpoena and the media/ACLU aren't in rabid hysteria, points to the Clintons even more clearly.
Nobody but Romney would be seriously hurt by this, and Romney mainly if it turned out to be tied to top people...even then, it's a tempest in a teapot that will only influence people who are very much on the fence.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
He wanted more than anyone to know what effect his Mormonism had on his electability, and he had these done. After the results were parsed, he then had his famous religion speech in Texas. He always thought he needed to get that speech out there, but his advisers were against it. Thess push polls, who he had done himself, let him knwo it was time to give "the speech"
No, I do not have any links, but this is the deal. Watch and see.
But that is about as delusional as you can be.
There have been both open and covert attacks on Mitt's religion for almost a year now, in particular McCain and Huckabee campaigns have been behind other similar activities, statements, etc. This is just one more example. The speech was not about polling and his speech didn't need a poll but about getting something out there that needed to be said so the Mormon-bashers who were falsely insisting on 'answers' could be told ... "Go here, your questions are answered here":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CchMtS3odDQ
I think one of those offshoot groups for Huckabee is behind this. Joe Carter is probably behind it too but it was done in a way so that Huckabee could maintain plausible deniability while still being the nice guy running the nice campaign.
I don't think McCain is behind this because he was the victim of this kind of smear campaign South Carolina over his and his wife's adopting a child and I just don't see him doing that and thats coming from someone not supporting McCain.
Liberals, seriously doubt they'd waste the time or money right now doing this.
Please, let's not start smearing everybody without good, hard evidence. Pscblazer20, you can read Joe's post at Evangelical Outpost and then get back to us about how he is behind this.
...especially if the person with that money-bomb cash already has an account with that firm. Jim Geraghty points out Ron Paul is a past client of Moore-Information.
I mean, seriously. Yes, he's a nut.
But it would shock me to the foundation of my being if I found that Ron Paul would spend money on this, rather than on, say, Gold Futures.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. --Voltaire
Allow me to state for the record that I have no opinion on who did the push poll. However, there are two people on the Republican ticket that would really benefit from a wounded Romney and McCain in New Hampshire, and Paul is one of them (Giuliani is the other).
There are other scenarios that are already on this thread, and I also cannot fully-discount them.
John Hawkins published an anonymous tip pointing the finger of suspicion at the Commonwealth PAC. To reiterate, an ANONYMOUS tip.
Gee, an anonymous tip leading back to Romney.
Stunning.
Aside, I thought the Commonwealth PAC was "essentially defunct" since about May. Recent expenditures from their last report don't seem to show much activity of any sort.
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The letter says that the AG is inquiring to see if a campaign broke a push-poll law. However after describing what a push-poll is, the letter goes on to say,
The push-poll law does not apply to presidential primaries.
So... why is it being investigated? What am I missing here?
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Considering where the good doctor's head was, when practicing medicine, is it any wonder that the man has issues?
TPM (which is pretty good at digging stuff up) tosses out this piece on information: "Back in 2006, when Romney was head of the Republican Governors Association, the great majority of FEC-reported disbursements to Moore came from contracts from the RGA."
That means Romney used these guys a lot and would trust them to keep his name out of it IF he did use them. This doesn't prove anything, but Romney now has ties to the group that actually placed the calls (and in a rather large way) AND the group that hired them. I'm not aware of any other candidate with relations to both groups.
The "rather large way" bit should refer to the group that hired the people who placed the calls not the actual callers. I'm assuming that the RGA did a fair amount of business since it was Moore's largest reported FEC income source.
Who had the most to gain by trying to depress Romney's numbers in New Hampshire in early November?
I think you'd have to look at McCain or Giuliani as primary suspects.
Always go to the dirtiest tricksters of all time, the Clintons.