Matt,
My dictionary defines attack "to set upon violently", and "to assail with hostile words".
Your headline is disingenuous! Calling it a comparison ad would be more honest! |
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Sir, I know I'll be lambasted for these comments, but here goes. McCain keeps hawking, (I.E.) bragging about his military experience, and his long 'Friendships.' with various world leaders. He was a pilot who was shot down, and spent 6 years in a Viet Cong prison. This does not make him an Eisenhower, It only makes him a POW expert. His friendships consist of junkets to meet them. His voting record puts him squarely in the category of a 'RINO.' voting with Kennedy, and Feinstein for two, how do these qualify him to lead the conservative Republican Party? |
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It used to be that only Democrats whined about "attacks" when someone brought up their record. When a factual accounting of a record is so unflattering it sounds like an attack it's his own damn fault. And let's face it his record sucks. Again, McCain-Feingold, Gang of 14, McCain-Kennedy. No thinking conservative can overlook these things.
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[Frank Byrne on 28 December 2007 10:24 AM]"when a factual accounting of a record"
Do you think Romney gives a "factual accounting of" his own record in that ad?
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Michael Medved
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2d1d6b5f-7d2a-4ba4-af3 8-ce935abe2d7c%40e67g2000hsc.googlegroups.com
Mitt Romney, on the other hand, saw sharper
increases in taxes during his single gubernatorial
term (2003 to 2007) in Massachusetts. The state-
local burden rose from 9.8% the year of his election
to 10.5% his last year as governor. Meanwhile, the
total tax burden went up from 31.2% to 33.9%--
vaulting Massachusetts from 9th place to 7th place
in the nation.
Fee-Fee Romney's Taxes & Fees
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=23a78e88-4d1a-47bd-8a7 a-60aa8109e297%40s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com
Bank, Justin and Lori Robertson, of factcheck.org. 19 December 2007. "Romney on Huckabee II
Romney attacks Huckabee again with false and misleading claims."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/80949
This item should have mentioned Romney's bogus 'I took only pro-life steps in office' claims:
Luo, Michael. 22 December 2007. "Romney Learns That 'Facts Are Stubborn Things'" _The New York Times_
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/us/politics/21cnd-romney. html?hp
Allott, Daniel. 20 December 2007. "Romney, get real about your abortion record"
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7482.html
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Club for Growth. 21 August 2007. "Mitt Romney's Record on Economic Issues"
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2007/08/mitt_romneys_record_on _economi.php
During his 2002 campaign for governor, Mitt Romney pledged to balance the budget without raising taxes and touted his fulfillment of that pledge throughout his term. While it is true that Governor Romney did not impose any broad-based tax hikes despite pressure from liberal special interests and an inherited budget deficit, he imposed a slew of fee hikes and tax "loophole" closures, together with spending cuts, in order to eliminate the budget gap.
The largest of these was $259 million worth of fee hikes in FY 2004, the bulk of which came from higher Registry of Deeds fees[1]. Smaller fee hikes, including higher charges for boaters and golfers, were imposed in FY 2003[2] and FY 2005[3]. Romney also sought $128 million worth of so-called tax loophole closures for FY 2004[4]; $70 million for FY 2005[5]; and $170 million for FY 2006, which were later reduced to $85 million due to backlash from business leaders[6].
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Footnotes
[1] Massachusetts Executive Office of Administration and Finance, internal documents
[2] Boston Herald, 01/30/03
[3] Knight Ridder Tribune Business News, 01/29/04
[4] Knight Ridder Tribune Business News, 02/27/03
[5] Knight Ridder Tribune Business News, 01/29/04
[6] Boston Globe, 03/26/05
Fee-Fee Romney's Taxes & Fees
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=23a78e88-4d1a-47bd-8a7 a-60aa8109e297%40s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com
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Lee,
How sure are you that all McCain ever did in the military is fly a plane and spend time as a POW? He actually continued to serves in the Navy after he came back from Vietnam. Turns out he was the Commanding Officer of the largest attack squadron in the Navy. You'll find the details below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain
"By late 1974 McCain had recuperated just enough to pass his flight physical and have his flight status reinstated, and he became Executive Officer and then Commanding Officer of the VA-174 Hellrazors, the East Coast A-7 Corsair II Navy training squadron stationed at Naval Air Station Cecil Field outside Jacksonville in Florida and the largest attack squadron in the Navy. McCain's leadership abilities were credited with turning around a mediocre unit, improving its aircraft readiness and pilot safety metrics and winning the squadron its first Meritorious Unit Commendation, and while some senior officers resented McCain's presence as favoritism due to his father, junior officers rallied to him and helped him qualify for A-7 carrier landings." |
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Check out the link.
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/12/28/video-mccain-smacks-r omney-over-new-ad/
Mitt Romney may have staked out the differences between McCain and himself, but towards the end of the clip McCain is the one that starts digging his own grave. At least that is my opinion. I love this line.
"Dear Maverick,
When conservatives come up to you and say they want more bipartisanship to “get things done,” working with Ted Kennedy on amnesty and Russ Feingold on CFR isn’t what they have in mind.
Love, AP"
What we want is more of what Mitt Romney did in Mass. when he turned a retroactive tax that the liberal legislature had planed into a tax refund.
When McCain talks about bipartisanship, it means handing the reins over to the Democrats. When Mitt Romney talks about it, bipartisanship means getting the Democrats to what he wants.
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6. Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR): Governor Huckabee enjoyed a meteoric rise in the polls in December 2007, which prompted a more thorough review of his ethics record. According to The Associated Press: “[Huckabee’s] career has also been colored by 14 ethics complaints and a volley of questions about his integrity, ranging from his management of campaign cash to his use of a nonprofit organization to subsidize his income to his destruction of state computer files on his way out of the governor’s office.” And what was Governor Huckabee’s response to these ethics allegations? Rather than cooperating with investigators, Huckabee sued the state ethics commission twice and attempted to shut the ethics process down.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-announces-list- washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2007
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At one point, Huckabee’s party turned toward a cluster of reporters and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired shotgun blasts over the group’s heads.
This, friends, is dangerously bad hunting form.
...if any of our hunting mates had pulled a stunt like Huckabee’s yesterday, we never would have invited them back. It’s the sort of behavior that drives safety-conscious hunters up the wall, because it reinforces a reckless, gun-totin’ stereotype.
My colleague James Oliphant reports that Huckabee’s party was about 75 yards away from the press corps Wednesday when a pheasant jumped up and flew toward the reporters, drawing several shots. “That was too close,” he reports a cameraman saying.
Perhaps Huckabee missed hunter’s safety classes – Arkansas only requires them for hunters born after 1968 – but the etiquette on this point is clear.
http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/1 2/huckabees_muzzle_control_probl.html
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with verbal attack. Thin skin is all around, the Romney ads have to be the most gentle "attack" ads I've ever seen. They're issue and comparison based, and perhaps the real issue is that Romney has the money to purchase ads and they don't. I don't know. But then again..Matt I do understand you may be trying to counter Hugh. So you have that right.
Required reading is NRO's reaction to the McCain NH newspaper endorsements.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2M1MTg3NDY0MjhmOTI1Yj AyY2U5MzkwYjAyN2RiMmI= |
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