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<\/a>“Three weeks ago, an Obama campaign website, ‘Keeping GOP Honest,\u2019 took the extraordinary step of publicly naming and assailing eight private citizens backing Mr. Romney. Titled ‘Behind the Curtain: A Brief History of Romney\u2019s Donors,\u2019 the post accused the eight of being ‘wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records.\u2019 Mr. VanderSloot was one of the eight, smeared particularly as being ‘litigious, combative and a bitter foe of the gay rights movement.\u2019 About a week after that post, a man named Michael Wolf contacted the Bonneville County Courthouse in Idaho Falls in search of court records regarding Mr. VanderSloot.<\/p>\n“Specifically, Mr. Wolf wanted all the documents dealing with Mr. VanderSloot\u2019s divorces, as well as a case involving a dispute with a former Melaleuca employee. Mr. Wolf sent a fax to the clerk\u2019s office — which [Miss Strassel says] I have obtained — listing four cases he was after. He would later send a second fax, asking for three further court cases dealing with either Melaleuca or Mr. VanderSloot. Mr. Wolf listed only his name and a private cellphone number.<\/p>\n
“Some digging revealed that Mr. Wolf was, until a few months ago, a law clerk on the Democratic side of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He\u2019s found new work. The ID written out at the top of his faxes identified them as coming from ‘Glenn Simpson.\u2019 That\u2019s the name of a former Wall Street Journal reporter who in 2009 founded a [Washington] company that performs private investigative work. The website for that company, Fusion GPS, describes itself as providing ‘strategic intelligence,\u2019 with expertise in areas like ‘politics.\u2019<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s a polite way of saying ‘opposition research.\u2019 When [Miss Strassel of the Wall Street Journal] called Fusion\u2019s main number and asked to speak to Michael Wolf, a man said Mr. Wolf wasn\u2019t in the office that day but he\u2019d be in this coming Monday. When I reached Mr. Wolf on his private cell, he confirmed he had until recently worked at the Senate. When I asked what his interest was in Mr. VanderSloot\u2019s divorce records, he hesitated, then said he didn\u2019t want to talk about that.<\/p>\n
“When I asked what his relationship was with Fusion, he hesitated again and said he had ‘no comment.\u2019 ‘It\u2019s a legal thing,\u2019 he added. Fusion dodged [Kimberley Strassel calls, so I couldn\u2019t ask who was paying it to troll through Mr. VanderSloot\u2019s divorce records. Mr. Simpson finally sent an email stating: ‘Frank VanderSloot is a figure of interest in the debate over civil rights for gay Americans. As his own record on gay issues amply demonstrates, he is a legitimate subject of public records research into his lengthy history of legal disputes.'”<\/p>\n
All he did was donate a million dollars to Romney\u2019s Super PAC, and Obama\u2019s opposition research people are after him to destroy him. Publicly.<\/p>\n
“A look through Federal Election Commission records did not show any payments to Fusion or Mr. Wolf from political players, such as the Democratic National Committee, the Obama campaign, or liberal Super PACs. Then again, when political groups want to hire researchers, it is not uncommon to hire a less controversial third party, which then hires the researchers. … That changed in January, with the first Super PAC disclosures. Liberal bloggers and media have since dug into his past, dredging up long-ago Idaho controversies that touched on gay issues. His detractors have spiraled these into accusations that Mr. VanderSloot is a ‘gay bashing thug.\u2019 He\u2019s become a national political focus of attention, aided by the likes of partisan Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.<\/p>\n
“Bloggers have harassed his children, visiting their social media accounts and asking for interviews and information. Mr. VanderSloot has said his attackers have misconstrued facts and made false allegations. In February he wrote a long reply, publicly stating that he has ‘many gay friends whom I love and respect\u2019 who should ‘have the same freedoms and rights as any other individual.\u2019 The Obama campaign\u2019s response, in April, was to single out Mr. VanderSloot and repeat the slurs.<\/p>\n
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Now, this goes back to the Romney Washington Post story a couple days ago. Much of it now made-up, front page. Something Romney allegedly did <\/a>against a “presumed” homosexual, back 50 years ago. Thankfully, there are questions all over the place about the accuracy of the Washington Post story. ABC News is questioning it; the family is questioning it. But still, it\u2019s patently obvious what\u2019s going on here. The Obama administration is working hand in hand with all of these different left-wing groups and blogs and, you name it, and mainstream journalists to systematically personally try to destroy anybody who gives money to Romney and Romney himself. <\/p>\n It\u2019s like Mark McKinnon said holding up the Washington Post story<\/a>. This means nobody can run for president. And I should add, on the Republican side. Democrats do not get this kind of media anal exam. They just don\u2019t. As I\u2019ve demonstrated over and over again today with the names of highly reputed Democrat people like Ted Kennedy and John Edwards, Robert Kennedy, Robert Byrd, all of these stellar, above-reproach men about whom nothing was found to be problematic with anything they had done. But make up a story about Romney, time it to Obama\u2019s supposed evolution on gay marriage, which again, I have to stress, Obama didn\u2019t say anything new<\/a>. The meter didn\u2019t move. There\u2019s not one thing new in the gay marriage movement other than gay advocates are opening their checkbooks and sending money out the wazoo to Obama. But not one thing has happened to advance the notion of gay marriage by Obama or anybody else. <\/p>\n Gay marriage, a social issue, is now a primary campaign issue. Gay marriage, a social issue, and who has introduced it? Not the pro-lifers. Not those people in the south that the Republican establishment hates. Nope, it\u2019s not the preachers. It\u2019s not the pro-lifers. It\u2019s not the NRA people. No way, Jose. No, the people introducing social issues into this race, Barack Obama and everybody beneath him on the flowchart. They are the ones. Barack Obama is attempting to win the presidency on the issue of gay marriage and gay-bashing. I need to amend that. Barack Obama is attempting to raise money on that issue and on that basis.<\/p>\n
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