The Romney campaign writes:

After reading Andy McCarthy’s blog post on Byron York’s article, I would like to know the source of the “been married more than once” quote that Mr. York uses.
Mr. York presents the quote as if Governor Romney had uttered it recently and in the context of the current back-and-forth with Mayor Giuliani. I cannot find any quote from Governor Romney in that context. Do you know the source?
Stephen B. Smith
Director of Online Communications
Romney for President, Inc.

I wrote:

[Romney] has said that voters are worried about a candidate who has “been married more than once.”

The quote came from an interview broadcast on August 6, 2007 on ABC News:

STEPHANOPOULOS: (Off-camera) Governor, I – know this is frustrating for you. But our recent poll showed that a third of Republican primary voters are still uncomfortable with the fact that you’re a Mormon, almost 40% of evangelical Christians. Don’t you need to do more to address this?
ROMNEY: Oh, possibly. You know, I see the same polls that say a very large percent are concerned if somebody is over 70 years old or if someone’s been married more than once. And frankly, the other guys don’t get asked about those questions every time they go on the air. But there seems to be an interest constantly in my faith…

I think it is fair to say that Romney “said that voters are worried about a candidate who has ‘been married more than once.’” The issue that Smith raises is whether Romney “uttered it recently and in the context of the current back-and-forth with Mayor Giuliani.” That’s not what I wrote – my story was about a buildup of resentments over months of back-and-forth attacks. And given that the statement was made in August – not exactly ancient history — and seemed intended to raise questions about Giuliani, Smith’s reading of it seems overly lawyerly.