Posted on 12/28/2007 10:46:55 PM PST by militem
On Thursday, Mitt Romney put up a television ad knocking John McCain for not supporting tax cuts and offering amnesty to illegal aliens. The ad asks "John McCain, an honorable man. But is he the right Republican for the future?" Now the McCain team is thinking about using Romney's own words (and campaign aides) to respond.
Taxes and immigration have nothing to do with the future, particularly, but the framing is a not-so-subtle jab at McCain's age. In his closing-argument stump speech, Romney is trying to identify himself with the future. ''No one votes for yesterday; they vote for tomorrow,'' Romney said Thursday in New Hampshire. ''Elections are about the future, the future of our families, the future of our country.''
The McCain team's response is that Romney has to talk about the future because he's spent much of the campaign running from his past. This may become more than a quip if the campaign decides to air the following television ad, which they've had on the shelf since the spring.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
IBTZ!!!!! ;)
Fred’s PitBull McPain in attack mode.
Let these two beat each other up to a pulp.
Fred just keeps smooth talkin.
I love it. They’re both correct. They cancel each other out. I hope McManiac floods Iowa with it, this week.
The only thing it needs is a tag that says...”Neither of these guys has what it takes to be the Conservative nominee. Vote for FRed Thompson!”
It is good ad. If McCain doesn’t run it, at least in NH, it is a tacit admission that he thinks Romney may be the nominee and he doesn’t want to bloody the winners nose. (The kind of pragmatic thinking we don’t often get from McCain.) The only other reason he wouldn’t run it is if he thought he were far enough ahead that he didn’t need to and that is clearly not the case.
You have to wonder why a left-wing magazine like Slate is so gung-ho about getting this McCain ad out there.
The real message of the ad is: “Don’t vote for that RINO Romney! John McCain is the REAL RINO you want!”
Welcome!
Ok, now it’s really you!!
There is some truth behind that. McCain won’t be the nominee because of his past, but he runs good. He can sweep away some of the Romney-Huck-Rudy clutter
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