Posted on 01/28/2008 8:05:10 AM PST by rightinthemiddle
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Mitt Romney and John McCain accused each other Monday of harboring liberal tendencies, a charge bordering on blasphemy in the increasingly caustic campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
Romney struck first on the day before the winner-take-all Florida primary, criticizing the Arizona senator for his legislation reducing the role of money in politics, for his position on immigration and for his support of an energy bill that he said would have driven up consumer costs.
"If you ask people, 'Look at the three things Senator McCain has done as a senator,' if you want that kind of a liberal Democrat course as president, then you can vote for him," Romney told campaign workers. "But those three pieces of legislation, those aren't conservative, those aren't Republican, those are not the kind of leadership that we need as we go forward."
McCain answered swiftly, accusing the former Massachusetts governor of "wholesale deception of voters. On every one of the issues he has attacked us on, Mitt Romney was for it before he was against it."
He added, "The truth is, Mitt Romney was a liberal governor of Massachusetts who raised taxes, imposed with Ted Kennedy a big government mandate health care plan that is now a quarter of a billion dollars in the red, and managed his state's economy incompetently, leaving Massachusetts with less job growth than 46 other states."
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“We have seen theenemy, and he is US!”..........Pogo
Wow! One moment of inntelectual honesty - at least they’re not calling each other “conservative”!
what are the odds? two blind squirrels finding the same nut...
Honesty meets the campaign trail at last.
Wow, never thought I’d agree with McCain and Romney at the SAME TIME.
As noted in another thread:
Two RINOS fighting over who is the darker shade of gray.
For once, they are both telling the truth.
McCain: "You're a liberal and you throw like a girl!"
They are both liberals. How hard is it for people to see this? Geez. Look at voting records and upbringing.
gettin’ nasty out there. It’ll be interesting to listen to Rush today and see how hard he blasts McCain and/or supports Romney.
They're both right.
“McCain answered swiftly, accusing the former Massachusetts governor of “wholesale deception of voters. On every one of the issues he has attacked us on, Mitt Romney was for it before he was against it.”
So where’s the deception? That Romney somehow supported Federal legislation created by Mccain from the Governor’s mansion in Mass.?
Has Mccain bumped his head? Governors have nothing to do with creating and putting forth Federal legislation in the Senate!!!!
A pretty sorry state of affairs, isn’t it? No matter what we do, we’re getting a nominee who does not represent the views of most Republican voters.
Well, one of them has been working hard to undermine republicans for nearly a decade, and has been the favorite pick of the MSM.
I am not thrilled with Romney, but picking between the two is easy.
“I know you are, but what am I?!”
McCain out-polls Romney, state by state, against a Democrat nominee.
To all those who say a non-vote for the Republican nominee is a vote for Hillary (which has become the mantra of the Romney supporters), does that apply also if McCain is the nominee?
What a mess.
Not true at all. Just like every state has a legislative liaison from the governor's office to the state legislature, they all have a similar relationship with their representatives in Kongress. These people suggest bills that the state government want pushed at the federal level. They also tell the federal reps how the state government wants them to ote on various issues. The governo is a very influential figure in federal politics. Look at it this way. Is a Kongressional representative more likely to pay attention to a letter you or I write or one written by the governor requesting support or not for a particular piece of legislation?
“Look at it this way. Is a Kongressional representative more likely to pay attention to a letter you or I write or one written by the governor requesting support or not for a particular piece of legislation?”
So u are saying that the Governor from Mass. influenced the Senator from Arizona into CREATING legislation like Mccain/Feingold? Thats a stretch.
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