Alec Baldwin Targets Ex-Romney Aide in Twitter Tantrum

Reports of Alec Baldwin's goodbye to public life have been greatly exaggerated. The former "30 Rock" star, 56, began his day by engaging in a bitter Twitter fight with a former aide to Mitt Romney.

Baldwin, responding to a perceived slight from the 2012 presidential candidate's former "body man," or personal assistant, Garrett Jackson, unleashed a string of angry replies, two of them with homophobic overtones.

And then, just as quickly, he deleted it all. Jackson, though, had been manually retweeting Baldwin's comments, along with his own, which appear below in the order they were published. Neither man would comment to ABC News.