Nobody leans on Sharky's [Romney's?] machine...
Sharky: I'm gonna pull the chain on you, pal. And you wanna know why? 'Cause you're f*cking up my city. 'Cause you're walking all over people like you own them. And you wanna know the worst part? You're from out of state
I've been trying to step around this story, at first thinking it to be much ado about nothing. You know- the story about Mitt Romney's personal bodyguard acting like an official officer of the law, issuing orders to a news reporter legally travelling a public road to stop. This was followed with a claim of "running" the hapless reporter's vehicle plates. Then I took the time to read a detailed account of how the events went down, which made me wonder.
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The BRAINSTER blog has a pretty good rundown of the chain of events. EyeOn08 goes nuclear, dropping the Watergate bomb:
I don’t even know what to make of this. It sounds like this wannabe cop is a wannabe Secret Service officer. Or maybe he wants to be Howard Hunt, of Nixon Plumber fame. And Romney is perfectly happy to feed this guys weird delusions, perhaps with Romney’s own?
Romney as Nixon? Ouch!
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When you're running for president and you wake up and read headlines in the statewide newspaper and the main Granite State television station indicating the New Hampshire (first in the nation primary state) Attorney General is opening an investigation into your campaign tactics, it's not gonna be a good day. Whether it's an egregious crime or not might not even matter at this point. Employing someone acting like a goon pushing people around in public places in your name doesn't project the "man of the people" image voters look for in a president.
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Oooh, that's gotta hurt, Sharky!
BY DOUG
