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Charlie Crist Attacks Marco Rubio With a Fake (and poorly done) Website

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 28th, 2009 at 02:39 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Talk about desperation. Charlie Crist has set up a fake website to cover the “truth” about Marco Rubio.. Why do I call it a fake website?

Well, the website’s domain registry shows this:

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: TRUTHABOUTRUBIO.COM
Created on: 27-Oct-09
Expires on: 27-Oct-11
Last Updated on: 27-Oct-09

The website has blog posts time stamped all the way back to 2007 even thought it was only created yesterday.

It tries to tie Marco Rubio to a Hitler video parody of Charlie Crist — a video Rubio condemned upon finding out about it (he should have gone after it for a lack of comedic value other than the sun tan jab), but that this Charlie Crist backed site is fixated on.

Funny how the Crist Hitler video appeared on October 24th and the Anti-Rubio site came out three days later and just happens to have as its big story the Hitler video, complete with polling.

Hmmmm . . . .

Is Crist so desperate that he puts out an exceedingly lame video and then tries to blame Rubio for it?

Why am I guessing this is Charlie Crist hit job? Well, first the Democrats have no need to attack Rubio now.

Secondly, the anti-Rubio website has a Twitter Account. And who was following the site until twenty minutes ago? Michelle Todd. Who is Michelle Todd? Special Assistant to Governor Charlie Crist. Likewise, the Senate GOP Conference is following and Mike Reed from the NRSC is following. [Note: Senate GOP says they follow everyone who follows them, which is normal, and the NRSC denies any involvement whatsoever, despite their endorsement and championing of Crist.]

I wonder what an Open Records Act request to the Governor’s Office for IP information related to the anti-Rubio site would turn up.

UPDATE: Also following and being followed by the twitter account is William McGinley, General Counsel to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Hmmm . . . given the number of NRSC connections, I wonder if they have something to do with this too.

UPDATE 2: Beware of source code problems.

UPDATE 3: Crist’s team has now yanked the website. Hahahaha

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  • janis

    would come after you in droves because of the damage you’ve inflicted on them over the years, but your truest enemies are looking to be the unprincipled stalwarts of the RINO wing of the party.

    We’ll hold ‘em, you hit ‘em. Really hard.

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    I do my best. Thanks for the help.

  • stixxxnstones

    “I wonder what an Open Records Act request to the Governor?s Office for IP information related to the anti-Rubio site would turn up.”

    Maybe a job for Malkin, unless you were saying that you’re prepping the paperwork yourself?

    Either way, someone’s gotta find out — and I have no frickin’ clue how to do that. If someone wants to walk me through it, I’d be glad to file that request :D

  • E Pluribus Unum

    The “unthinkable” must be getting more “thinkable” all the time.

  • Richard Mullins

    your allies. Well we now know who is getting closer to Epic FAIL.

  • 10ksnooker

    Time … he is running radio ads in our area trying to convince people he is conservative, it’s not working.

  • kerrhome

    What the RNC is doing to our conservative candidates is despicable. They’re not getting a dime from me. I’m sick of this garbage.

  • http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/blog/loren_heal Socrates

    In the HTML source for the front page of the site we find:

    <img src=”///Users/rheffley/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.png” alt=”" />

    That;’s what happens when you publish a page and reference an image in your Firefox cache.

    Searching for “heffley crist rubio” we find Rich Heffley getting a typical sweetheart board appointment from Crist:

    Heffley is a lobbyist and Republican operative who played a big behind-the-scenes role in Crist’s 2006 campaign and just recently helped secure victory for Amendment 1 and John McCain.

    Not only is Crist dishonest, but he also hires sloppy workmen.

  • Richard Mullins

    from the Republican base in Florida that won’t vote him in any longer. It seems to me that he’s playing the nobody like me routine.

  • kerrhome

    Well done Socrates. Let’s see how long Crist keeps this garbage site up.

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    This really is a big story, in my humble opinion. Great job, Erick, Socrates, and all the rest!

    It’s just despicable that one supposedly honorable Republican would do such a thing to another Republican.

    I hope all of you will do what you can to get this onto Fox News, Drudge, Rush, etc.

    Thank you.
    ColdWarrior
    www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    and forgot to tell us that we’re no longer welcome.

  • http://biggator5.net/archive.html BigGator5

    Everyone should go to the site just to vote “No” on the current poll.

    Then go out and vote for Rubio in the primary (if you live in Florida, of course)!

  • http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/blog/loren_heal Socrates

    If it were me, I’d block that account.

  • ceili_dancer

    I don’t think Steele and Co. have made any donations to Crist. Just like in NY-23 use that money to attack a Dem instead of imploding.

  • Richard Mullins

    via the NRSC. There are Hatchet jobs in the NRSC and lots of Moderate in the RNC. One could easily move money to the NRSC with telling a soul.

  • http://biggator5.net/archive.html BigGator5

    The poll I was talking about, asked the question “Was Rubio Campaign behind the Hitler Video” and not “Is Rubio Qualified for Senate”.

    Talk about getting your answer before asking the question.