Subject: Romney's Dark Knight
From: "Molly Magarik" <[email-masked]>
To: "B" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Kaufman Ted" <[email-masked]>, "Biden Hunter" <[email-masked]>, "Schwerin Eric" <[email-masked]>, "Snyder-Mackler Alex" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:22:04 -0400

http://m.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201205/eric-fehrnstrom-profile-mitt-romney-adviser?currentPage=1

Last graphs of the article--

"And yet political nihilism may be Romney's only hope for November. While he's been able to cast a spell on intimates like Fehrnstrom, so far the Mitt magic hasn't worked very well on voters. Romneyworld knows it's not going to win a charisma competition. That leaves one option: tearing down Obama. 

"It's a path to victory that Romney has taken before. In 2002—the only race he's ever won—he ran a scorched-earth campaign against his Democratic opponent, hitting her with misleading ads that took her words out of context. (Much as he did with the Obama spot, Fehrnstrom publicly defended the ads, saying they were "something reporters do every day.") And if Romney manages to win with similarly ruthless methods this November? Fehrnstrom's reward will be much bigger than a plum job on Beacon Hill. Says one veteran Romney watcher: "I can just see Eric in Karl Rove's old office upstairs at the White House now." 

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