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Catfight!
Topic Started: Dec 27 2007, 06:58 AM (119 Views)
QuirtEvans
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Just as the candidates were going into a pre-arranged break for Christmas, Romney alleged that McCain had failed "Reagan 101" by opposing two of the tax cuts proposed early on by President George W. Bush. A tough barb, sure, but not all that rough.

In response, McCain senior adviser Mark Salter unleashed this howitzer:

"Welcome to Mitt Romney's bizarro world, in which everyone is guilty of his sins. He didn't support Ronald Reagan. He didn't support President Bush's tax cuts. He raised taxes in Massachusetts by $700 million. He knows John McCain is gaining on him so he does what any small varmint gun totin', civil rights marching, NRA endorsed fantasy candidate would do: he questions someone else's credibility. New Hampshire is on to you, Mitt. Give it a rest. It's Christmas."

Whoah. Or should we say WHOAH!

Make no mistake. Salter has been with McCain a very long time; he is the co-author of a number of McCain's bestselling books. McCain speaks in Salter's words and vice versa. Given the closeness of that relationship, this statement is properly read as a direct candidate-to-candidate rebuke by McCain and (yet another) sign that he simply does not like Romney.

Unbowed by the fierceness of McCain's pushback, Romney went at the Arizona senator again on Wednesday -- releasing a research document entitled "Straight Talk Detour." It featured a 2003 quote in which McCain seems to express support for amnesty for illegal immigrants. The document went on to blast McCain for his support for a comprehensive immigration reform measure in the Senate and for his failure to renounce that support.

McCain, personally this time, hit back. "I know something about tailspins, and it's pretty clear Mitt Romney is in one," said McCain in a nod to his own campaign problems over the summer (and a very subtle reference to his days as a fighter pilot). "It's disappointing that he would launch desperate, flailing and false attacks in an attempt to maintain relevance. As the Union Leader said today, New Hampshire voters just aren't buying his act, and these latest attacks won't help him."

Put simply: It is on.


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It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Romney deserves every arrow he takes from McCain and more.

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Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.
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