Posted on 11/27/2007 1:04:37 PM PST by monkeycard
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday said rival Rudy Giuliani "had nothing but praise" when then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed a universal health care plan.
Romney's campaign cited a 1994 New York Times article quoting the former New York mayor as praising the Clinton plan for "doing some pretty good things." The plan was never enacted.
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This is getting good. I’m waiting for these two to bring both their poll numbers down so that Fred can walk in and claim the prize.
Consider the source. The NYTimes would have tried to put as pro-Clinton a spin as possible on whatever Rudy happened to say at the time. Remember that Republican politicians tend to be more polite and are even known to couch scathing criticism in a nice wrapper.
(Please do not take my comment as an endorsement of the Mayor. I like Fred and others better.)
C’mon, Mitt... if you’re going to hit Rudy over things he did and said in 1994, you’re leaving yourself wide-open to an obvious counter-attack. There are YouTube videos of you from 1994. You’re giving Guiliani every reason in the world to revisit them.
These two RINOs slap fighting is funny.
What pussies; throw a punch.
OTOH, RINO-Chameleon-MITT's RomneyCARE=HillaryCARE WAS forced down the throats of millions (without a vote = the Romney WAY(TM)).
Massachusetts citizens are about to have their premiums jump 10-12% because of the Mittster's socialism.
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