In the past month it has become apparent that many Democrats are willing to say anything to try and get President Barack Obama reelected, including comments that would border on being slander in most circumstances.
First, in a debunked effort to link Republican candidate Mitt Romney to investments in companies that outsourced some jobs, the Obama campaign's surrogates suggested that he may have committed a felony in signing some of the SEC filings for Bain Capital when he was running the Olympics. The attack was revived by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D. FL) as head of the Democratic National Committee (she is also rumored to have won Best In Show as a poodle during the Westminster dog show in 1988).
After this baseless attack went nowhere, they returned to saying that Mr. Romney should release more than the two years of tax returns (though it didn't seem to bother them when Sen. John McCain (R. AZ) or John Kerry (D. MA) released that same amount).
Now, Sen. Harry Reid (D. NV), has come out saying an unnamed former official with Bain Capital tells him that Mr. Romney had not paid any taxes in a period of 10 years. In doing so, Mr. Reid himself admits that he doesn't even known if the unnamed source's information is accurate. Thank God the brave Mr. Reid is willing to put himself out there in support of such a well founded accusation. Luckily it appears serious journalists (you know, people who don't work at the Huffington Post) have so far treated the allegation with the proper amount of derision.
But then, what do you expect from a campaign strategy that was summed up simply as "Kill Romney" by Ann Romney.
