Posted on 02/03/2008 9:52:02 AM PST by coffee260
FARGO, North Dakota – The Romney campaign has complained to the North Dakota attorney general about what it claims are dirty tricks by the McCain campaign.
Jason McBride, who is running North Dakota for the Romney campaign, said the campaign has heard numerous complaints from voters here about anonymous and misleading automated phone calls.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
I’m just glad that the campaign has now passed South Carolina by, and I’m not getting phone calls any longer.
Tape those calls! Expose the dirty McCain tricks.
This actually is more important than it seems. North Dakota is a winner take all state and double digit delegates. Winning it matters.
I think McCain was bitter over how he got the treatment eight years ago and I wouldn’t be surprised to see his campaign smearing Romney with dirty tricks.
McCain won’t call himself pro-life openly or pro-marriage openly in ads. We see this “social conservative” crap in TV ads.
Maybe that’s why Huckabee looks more like McCain’s shotgun rider than a serious candidate.
Huck’s appearance in Massachsetts yesterday, now McCain moving in. Its like a one-two punch aimed at Romney in state where he’s leading.
I think McCain was bitter over how he got the treatment eight years ago and I wouldn’t be surprised to see his campaign smearing Romney with dirty tricks.
McCain won’t call himself pro-life openly or pro-marriage openly in ads. We see this “social conservative” crap in TV ads.
Maybe that’s why Huckabee looks more like McCain’s shotgun rider than a serious candidate.
Huck’s appearance in Massachsetts yesterday, now McCain moving in. Its like a one-two punch aimed at Romney in state where he’s leading.
I think McCain was bitter over how he got the treatment eight years ago and I wouldn’t be surprised to see his campaign smearing Romney with dirty tricks.
McCain won’t call himself pro-life openly or pro-marriage openly in ads. We see this “social conservative” crap in TV ads.
Maybe that’s why Huckabee looks more like McCain’s shotgun rider than a serious candidate.
Huck’s appearance in Massachsetts yesterday, now McCain moving in. Its like a one-two punch aimed at Romney in state where he’s leading.
Just like the Clintons never have any knowledge of the dirty tricks being done by their campaign aides, neither does McShame and therefore, he can not be accountable for those dirty tricks. What a slime ball. I am sure that he knows exactly what is being done by this aide; he probably orchestrated it.
I’m not surprised...But the KEY IS...Will this story get out on the news tonight after the Super Bowl? And will it get out tomorrow?
ND is a caucus state, I think McCain is wasting his time.
“anonymous and misleading automated phone calls.”
I hate these phone calls! Here in Ohio, for some reason, you can’t even hang up on them. They seize your phone line! You can hang up on them any number of times, and when you pick the phone back up, the message is still playing! I’m on 24 hour emergency call for a public utility, and this “seizure” of my phone line really pi$$es me off. I’ve complained to the phone company, but they deny there’s a problem. Sheesh!
Nice to see McCain taking the past dirty tricks out on Romney, instead of just running a clean campaign.
Here in Mississippi, with our March 5th primary, sadly I won’t get an option to make a choice.
Check the record a little more closely.
During the South Carolina primary of 2000 the McCain campaign complained about negative phone calls from the opposition.
But post election investigations failed to turn up any evidence or witnesses that such calls were ever made.
In short - there is no proof whatsoever that McCain got "the treatment".
In fact, the McClain complaint itself was a dirty trick.
SEE THE FOLLOWING:
From: National Review | Date: 4/19/2004 | Author: York, Byron
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-130933958.html
"McCain held a town-hall meeting in Spartanburg, and a woman named Donna Duren said her 14-year-old son, who idolized McCain, had answered the phone the night before and had become distressed. "He was so upset," Duren told McCain. "He said, 'Mom, someone told me that Senator McCain is a cheat and a liar and a fraud.'" "What you've just told me has had a very profound effect on me," McCain told Duren. He subsequently sent an impassioned message to Bush: "I'm calling on my good friend George Bush to stop this now. He comes from a better family. He knows better than this." Duren's story became a staple of McCain's campaign. He told it at a debate, in stump speeches, and on TV. But despite all the attention McCain lavished on the tale, there was no evidence, beyond Duren's testimony, that it was true.
The Bush campaign had hired an out-of-state company to make about 200,000 "advocacy" calls to voters. After McCain's criticism, the campaign released the script of those calls. The script said Bush was "working hard and stressing his message of reform with results." It went on to say, "Unfortunately, the race has turned ugly," and urged listeners, "Don't be misled by McCain's negative tactics." It ended with more positive words about Bush. There was no mention of cheats or liars or frauds.
Nearly a week after McCain's initial accusations, the Los Angeles Times looked into the matter. The paper found voters who had received the "advocacy" calls, but none who had received a call like the one described by Duren. "The McCain campaign has provided the names of only six voters complaining about calls from the Bush side," the paper said. Of the voters the Times's reporters could reach, "three described questions that, while negative, appear to have been part of a legitimate poll. Another said she heard no negative information at all." The paper found no one who supported Duren's accusation.
The lack of evidence, while not proof that the call story was untrue, is nevertheless telling. Republican strategists point out that in controversies over mass callings, there has almost always been a tape of the calls, usually made by the answering machines of voters who received them. When Pat Robertson made a negative call on Bush's behalf in Michigan, for example, the story ended up on the front page of the New York Times, because someone had a tape of it. Likewise, when the McCain campaign made its infamous anti-Bush "Catholic voter alert" calls in Michigan, there was taped evidence. But there was no such evidence of the "cheat/liar/fraud" calls.
"If those calls took place, then where is the tape?" asks one GOP strategist. "You can't make more than five phone calls and not have it end up on somebody's answering machine. They've never been able to produce the individual who made the calls, they've never been able to produce the phone vendor who made the calls, and they've never been able to produce a script or a tape recording."
No tricks from McCain.
McCain is Hillary lite.
Thanks for the ping. You’re right, McCrazy has so much in common with the Clintons’ character. They’re cut from the same sleazy cloth.
I hear you but National Right To Life wanted W and they were brutal in their attacks on McCain, who had a pretty good pro-life record to that point. (Now he supports stem cell research.)
The attack of NRL was rightly centered on McCain-Feingold.
But note in the end President George W. Bush ended up signing it anyway.
Real politics is a messy business that Ronald Reagan once compared to “the world with its pants down.”
It was in 2000 and it is right now with Romney being tag-teamed by McCain and Huckabee.
More from another article about this.
Jason McBride, who is running North Dakota for the Romney campaign, said the campaign has heard numerous complaints from voters here about anonymous and misleading automated phone calls.
The caller, McBride said, falsely claims to be from the Romney campaign but says positive things about John McCain. He said the caller has a strong “Hispanic accent.”
McBride said that by using caller ID and the reverse directory, the Romney team has traced the calls to the office of a McCain aide in Michigan. The campaign, he said, lodged a complaint today by e-mail to Atttorney General Wayne Stenehjem.
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