The Montana Governor's Scurrilous Polygamy Attack On Romney

On Friday, Montana's Governor, Brian Schweitzer, a Democrat, decided to link Mitt Romney to polygamy by noting that, when Mitt was born, his parents resided in a polygamist, Mormon commune in Mexico.  Obviously, this was a very intentional, but deceptive attack; knowing full well that neither Romney nor his father were polygamists.  But, Schweitzer also knows that, by simply floating that information out there for the media to disperse, many people will just read the headlines and truly believe Romney to be a polygamist.

Some believe that this Schweitzer attack was actually orchestrated by the White House because Schweitzer won't be seen as having any direct ties to the Obama reelection campaign; thus keeping Obama "clean" in the process.  And, I certainly wouldn't put it past a guy like David Axelrod to pull something like that.  This kind of thing just reinforces the belief that the 2012 presidential election will probably be one of the dirtiest in the history of American politics; with Obama and his surrogates floating half-truths and outright lies to destroy Romney.

Though, sometimes, when the dirt is being thrown around in a political contest, the contestant who was supposed to benefit from the throwing actually gets a lot of mud on themselves as well.  This is true in this case.  What the idiot Schweitzer doesn't seem to know is that Obama's own roots have polygamy as close to him as his own father.  You see, polygamy was widely practiced in Kenya; the birthplace of Obama senior.  The President's great grandfather had five wives.  His grandfather had an estimated 4 wives. Estimated because there are no true records as to how many wives he actually had.  Then, too, Obama's own father married Obama's mother while having never been divorced from his prior Kenyan wife.

Unfortunately, these truths about The President's polygamist past didn't get the same amount of press that the Schweitzer statement did.  Sadly, once again, the media has come to the reelection aid of Obama.