Giuliani attacks Romney's Mormon faith

Taking a page out of Bush's 2000 smear strategy against McCain, this week the Giuliani Campaign circulated a story to right-wing bloggers in an attempt to instill fear about Mitt Romney's Morman religion.  This is pretty despicable:

Today, however, a blogger has provided me (on condition of anonymity)an email from the Rudy Giuliani campaign drawing attention to an article from today's Salt Lake Tribunetying Mr. Romney to a disavowed Mormon prophecy of a "White Horse" thatwill ride onto the national stage to save the Constitution.

Generally speaking, the "White Horse" myth finds that the second coming of Christ will happen when the constitution is hanging by a thread.  The man on the White Horse will ride in and save the constitution.  Giuliani's people insinuated that some people believe Romney will be that White Horse -- obviously an attempt to poke fun at the prophecy, and make a general statement about the absurdity of Romney's religion in general.

According to a column this morning in the Salt Lake Tribune, the Giuliani Campaign has apologized for the mess-up:

This "is not acceptable," said Tony Carbonetti, Giuliani's senior campaign adviser.  "We extend our sincere apologies to Governor Romney and reaffirm our commitment to running a clean campaign."

In tonight's debate, we will see more examples  of that same brand of campaign cleanliness.