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Do Two Negatives Make a Positive?
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ABC News’s Bret Hovell reports: Senator John McCain weighed-in an ongoing back and forth between his campaign and that of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney Friday night, responding to Romney’s assertion that a new McCain ad was "nasty" and "mean-spirited," and that it constituted a personal attack.
"Look I know these campaigns are wearing, they're tough. I've been in them before," McCain said, when told of Romney’s words.
"Try to relax, Mitt," McCain said with a laugh.
The back and forth started Friday morning. The Romney campaign released a television ad about McCain that was widely considered to be negative in tone. At an afternoon press conference, McCain took issue with the content of the ad, which he said was inaccurate.
"We will respond and we have to respond," McCain said. "But we will conduct this campaign in a dignified manner on the issues."
"The people of New Hampshire, I would like to tell Governor Romney and others, don’t respond favorably to negative ad campaigns..." McCain continued. "We won’t engage in that kind campaigning now will we stoop to responding to a lot of it."
But a few hours later came McCain’s response, which did have a negative tone. The McCain team launched a TV ad, titled "Consider," McCain’s team pulls quotes from the New Hampshire Union-Leader, which endorsed McCain, and from the Concord Monitor which wrote a scathing anti-Romney editorial last week.
"If a candidate is a phony…we’ll know it," McCain’s ad says, quoting the Monitor. "Mitt Romney is such a candidate."
That’s when Romney fired back calling McCain’s ad negative. (You can judge for yourself by viewing the ad here.)
"I've just seen the text of his ad and it is obvious of a very different nature," Romney said aboard his campaign’s press bus in western Iowa. "It's an attack ad. It attacks me personally."
Back to McCain.
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it's hard to be a republican these days, without being easy fodder for attack
Posted by: earthisnotflat | Dec 29, 2007 4:53:52 AM
I can't stand Mitt Flip Flopper Romney. He is running the most negative campaign out of any of the Republicans. Plus he distorts the truth to make himself look good. J
Posted by: imwithmmcain | Dec 29, 2007 11:23:29 AM
Sir; I know I will be blasted on blogs far, and wide for these comments, but here goes. Sen. McCain touts his foreign policy expertice, his military accumen, and his conservative values. I am an undecided voter, but I strongly lean towards Romney. Mainly because I considert him the least disagreeable of the candidates. As for McCain, he votes mainly with the Dem. Party, they are not conservative. He has, as far as I know, only been on junkets to foreign countries. What policies did he help enact? Except an attempt to give amnesty to illegal aliens. This I really hesitate on, but, his military experience. He was a pilot, who flew over Viet Nam, and got shot down. He was incarcerated in the Hanoi Hilton, under more than cruel conditions, and lived to tell about it. How does this qualifie him as a military leader? He is an expert on how to behave as a POW, this does NOT make him an Eisenhower, a Colim Powel, or even a "Stormin' Norman Schwartzkauf. Are these questions inappropriate? I don't know, you tell me!
Posted by: lee rader | Dec 30, 2007 1:17:38 AM
The nice thing about Romney is that if you do not like his positions he will gladly switch them for you: then he will attack the other canidates for not having his strong convictions!
How can a person be true to America if they cannot be true to themselves ?
Posted by: TYSPOCK | Dec 30, 2007 11:00:58 AM
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