Do not fool yourself into thinking that Santorum and Newt wouldn’t have run vicious attack ads against Romney, if they had had the money. They would have done so in a heartbeat.
And it seems to me that the anti-Romney people on web-sites, blogs and Twitter are just as vicious; they just don’t have the money for a wider range of ads.
Politics is not tiddlywinks. This is the reality of extended primaries, and it is a repeat of what happened in 2000.
No way. Tell me what election cycle where one of the candidates spend 91% of their ad budget on attacking the other candidates. It never happened. All the money to destroy the other candidates and all he can muster is 41% of the GOP vote thus far with Rick coming in close in contests with a limited budget.
The other huge issue with Milt is that you can go down the list of the other three candidates and list at least 2 issues you know are important to them through their messaging. Milt has nothing. Even his economic plan is 59 points of muddy garbage. Romney is a huge loser that the GOPe is pushing hard for and they can't even give Conservatives a reason to vote for him other than he isn't Obummer.
They wouldn't have run dishonest, lying ads. Of course with Mitt, they wouldn't have needed to. Just look at the ads they did do on him. They pointed out his liberal record truthfully. Meanwhile the lefty liberal progressive Romney put out lying ads claiming Newt and Rick were liberals. Truth matters.
“Do not fool yourself into thinking that Santorum and Newt wouldn’t have run vicious attack ads against Romney,...”
Mis Marple forgets it was Romney that fired the first shots back in December, and those ads were as close to outright fabrications as it gets.
Don’t try to excuse Romney of responsibilty for what he has done by saying Santorum and Gingrich WOULD have done it. That simply does not excuse what Romney ACTUALLY did to destroy party unity.
I think you hit it on the head. In the deabtes, they all went after each other, which means they dont have a problem with negative. Just mad that Romney had more money. Im not going to play the class warfare game.