Desperation?
Via rebelpundit:
In Michigan, Santorum supporters planted hundreds of campaign signs in Shelby Township prior to Mitt Romney’s appearance. Some of these signs were planted alongside sidewalks and roadways across from and surrounding the Romney campaign stop. Approximately two hours before the scheduled event, Romney campaign staffers, including Dennis Lennox of Topinabee, MI, began planting Romney signs in front of the location. Around the same time, several other people, who refused to identify themselves, began uprooting hundreds of Santorum signs along the roadway leading to the event. Signs placed at a commercial intersection were also removed.
When asked to explain his actions, Santorum supporters were confronted with obscenities from one person removing signs. He claimed to be unaffiliated with the Romney campaign.
One officer on the scene, Lou Francis, refused to assist in retrieving stolen campaign signs valued at over $1500.
ADDENDUM: In related Romney news, read Ben Domenech's Ricochet piece on The Trouble With Mitt. Besides giving more insight into the 'it'll be conservatives fault if we lose in November' meme, leading to the 'brokered convention' talk, Domenech makes a critical point about Romney's disconnect.
The reason Romney hasn’t ended this thing in a walk is that he hasn’t successfully sold himself to the base or the country. ... The competitive and lengthy primary is not the reason for Romney’s failure – it’s just revealed the things about him that make him fail. There are three ways Romney supporters could've avoided this circumstance. They could have run a different campaign. They could have run on a different agenda. Or they could have run a different candidate.
And in regards to that Pethokoukis piece buried in there on Romney's 'maintenance-based agenda', I know that the Romney camp has issued a statement to Kudlow that a "bolder tax-cut plan" is on its way, but I have to ask... Why does Mitt always have to be nudged to come up with conservative solutions, economic or otherwise? Why does the man have to be nudged towards the conservative base?
