Shananigans

The Cajun Jew does some research into a Craig's List job posting for Chuck Pennacchio canvassers.

He hunts for the posts and dig around, and comes to a conclusion.

Unfortunately, Karl Rove makes an appearance.

So if Pennacchio's campaign didn't write either of the craigslist posts, then who did? I can see three possibilities:

• The Pennacchio campaign wrote them. I don't see this as likely at all--see why here. They would have nothing to gain and much to lose by hypocritically doing so. Also, they are not that dumb.


• A foolish Pennacchio supporter(s) wrote them. Perhaps someone who likes Chuck, but is ignorant of his all volunteer campaign wrote these craigslist posts. A person or two with good intentions could have written them, but was asked to remove the one offering payment, because it was bogus. This seems like a bit of a reach to me.


• One of Pennacchio's opponents or a supporter thereof wrote them. Attacking your opponent's credibility--in this case Chuck's ethics--is a page right out of Karl Rove's playbook. Unfortunately, Rove's tactics are not limited to Republicans. In politics, tearing your opponent down is one of the best ways to make yourself look better. However, I remain confused about the authenticity of the volunteer phonebanking post.

I'm hoping that the Rove mention is tongue in cheek. But maybe the Craigs List people can give up an IP address of the poster? If it's whitehouse.gov, I'll eat this post. ;)

But, if you're interested in internet forensics, here's a good example.