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Showing Original Post only (View all)Beware of this Rovian maneuver... it is coming. [View all]
Step 1. Create a fake Romney tax return that shows something REALLY bad... zero taxes paid in 2009, offshore accounts, the works.
Step 2. Release the phony tax return to an unwilling news organization... (can't use Dan Rather this time, probably try Brian Williams).
Step 3. When unwilling news organization reports that they have received a copy of Romney's tax return and publicizes it, have some "minions" on rightwing blogs come up with the "evidence" that the return is a fake.
Step 4. Scream bloody murder about Brian Williams (or whoever) using made-up evidence against Romney. Scream left-wing media bias. Scream dirty tricks by Democrats.
Step 5. Media, embarrassed by using a phony document, backs off of story for the rest of the campaign.
We've all seen it before with Bush and National Guard, people. The way they make the "truth" go away is to pull a trick like I laid out.
You know it is coming. Be ready for when it does.
THIS is how they'll try to bury the tax return issue for all time.
Rove did this with the debate prep tape in 2000.
He did it with the Air National Guard forgeries in 2004.
He did it with the Sarah Palin emails being "hacked" in 2008.
They don't play fair. Be ready.