McCain: Romney Campaign Is 'Wholesale Deception'
As Rudy Giuliuni's campaign continues to deflate—he just finished speaking to less than 50 supporters at an airport in Sanford, Florida (where Jon Voight was introduced by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum as "Midnight Cowboy, National Treasure, Deliverance")--the battle between John McCain and Mitt Romney is escalating.
The McCain campaign just released a statement from the Senator saying Romney's campaign is based on "the wholesale deception of voters," calls him the "liberal governor" and even makes mention of Ted Kennedy as an ally on Romney's healthcare plan in Massachusetts.
Full statement:
“Mitt Romney's campaign is based on the wholesale deception of voters. On every one of the issues he has attacked John McCain on, Romney was for it before he was against it.
“He was for campaign finance reform, and even proposed taxing political contributions.
“He was for cap and trade, and even supported a tax that increased the price of gasoline at the pump.
“He called our immigration bill ‘reasonable’ and ‘not amnesty.’
“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 47 other states.”
UPDATE: The McCain campaign also sent out these comments the Senator made in Jacksonville, Florida this morning:
"One thing we should give Governor Romney credit for, he is consistent, He's consistently taken both sides of every issue, he has consistently flip-flopped on every issue … If you say different things in different parts of the country and take more than two sides on every issue, it's not going to work over time. That's why we're going to win over Governor Romney both tomorrow, and on Super Tuesday."
“As the liberal governor of Massachusetts, he raised taxes by $730 million dollars. Just take a look at his record as governor. Certainly his big government mandated health care plan for Massachusetts, which is now half a billion in the hole, is certainly not conservative."
- Poll
- Obama (D)
- McCain(R)
- Spread
- RCP Average
- 46.5
- 41.7
- Obama +4.8
- Candidate
- Favorable
- Unfavorable
- Spread
- Obama
- 55.7
- 32.7
- +23.0
- McCain
- 52.4
- 34.7
- +17.7
I can't believe how low Senator McCain has stooped in running his "positive" campaign.
McCain says Romney was "for the immigration bill" before he was against it, well if that's the case at least he's decided now that it was a bad idea. McCain on the other hand will never admit that his bill was diametrically opposed to the will of the people. Remember McCain not only supported it, but he was the author of the amnesty plan with his Buddy Ted Kennedy (whom he is now trying to link to Mitt Romney in some sense because of the Massachussets Healthcare bill)
Romney left his state in the black, the job market was growing instead of shrinking, and no one knows yet how the government mandate that people have Healthcare Insurance (much like they must have auto insurance) will play out financially. They do agree that health premiums for everyone have dropped by as much as 35% because of the influx of new policy holders.
In any case Romney was inventive, forward thinking and yes conservative in his approach to solving problems, something that McCain will never understand.
AMERICAN PEOPLE TO BE JUDGE AND JURY IN THE TRIAL OF NEO-CON JOHN FOR DISLOYALTY
Un-Constitutional Amnesty for Aliens?
Sacrifice American Wealth and Blood for Israel?
Demonize the Christian Conservatives?
Sacrificial Killing of Children by Abortion?
Neo-Con News Media Propaganda against Conservatives?
Dirty Tricks to Defeat Romney?
McCain-Feingold Suppression of Internet Freedom of Speech?
Early Caucus for Neo-Con Advantages over Conservatives?
Un-Constitutional Wars to “Occupy Iraq for 100 Years” and “Bomb Iran”?
Tax and Spend Opposition to Bush Tax Cuts?
No Grasp of Looming Recession and Inflation Threat?
No Record of Social or Economic Accomplishments?
If McCain is such a pretentious Christian and patriot, insanely dishonoring his God and his Constitution, how can he ever be trusted to cherish and honor the American People?
That the Republican Party so justly stripped Neo-Con dominated New Hampshire and Florida of half of their delegates, as punishment for trying to trick the American People into believing that McCain is leading candidate, is the first step to his final appointment with the Republican firing squad.