Re: The Romney Playbook

What is it about highly-paid outside consultants (and less highly paid White House officials) who are unable to keep their confidential strategy memos, campaign playbooks and debate prep videos from being lost, stolen or otherwise leaked? Remember the imbroglio over the George W. Bush debate prep materials that were mysteriously sent to a Gore campaign aide? Then there was the Karl Rove Power Point presentation from the 2002 mid-terms that turned up in Lafayette Park. And not so long ago (but long enough ago that he was still at the Daily News), Ben Smith scored an exclusive when he got his hands on a 144-page "battle plan" put together by Rudy Giuliani's crack team of advisers.

I fear an epidemic is at hand. Candidates in need of some press attention will suddenly discover serious security breaches in their campaigns. It's only a matter of time before the confidential strategy memos for Tommy Thompson and Dennis Kucinich are leaked.

Of course, this is all good news for entrepreneurs who see campaigns as potentially lucrative places to work. I bet a qualified Document Security Specialist could command $15,000 a month. And what's $15,000 a month in a $500 million campaign?