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Subscribe to RSSIn the spring of 2008, the Hillary Clinton and John McCain campaigns ganged up on then-Democratic front-runner Barack Obama -- often hitting him with the same lines of attack. He's too inexperienced. He's naive on foreign policy. His promises aren't based in reality.
And the one-two punch certainly bruised Obama, although not enough to deny him the Democratic nomination or stop his decisive general-election victory.
Now we're seeing a similar sort of tag-teaming, with the Obama White House and Rick Perry making the same exact attacks on presumptive GOP front-runner Mitt Romney.
Just check out what White House senior adviser David Plouffe said on "Meet the Press" yesterday, and what Perry said on "Fox News Sunday," per NBC's Sarah Blackwill:
Perry: He's been for pro-abortion.
Plouffe: He was an extremely pro-choice governor. Now he believes that life begins at conception.
Perry: He's been for, you know, supporting gay rights.
Plouffe: He was to the left of Ted Kennedy on gay rights issues. Now he wants to amend the Constitution to further gay marriage.
Perry: We are very, very different from the standpoint of consistency.
Plouffe: What you need in that office is conviction. you've need to have a true compass and you've got to be willing to make tough calls.
*** UPDATE *** Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul emails First Read:
“Gov. Perry and President Obama have a lot in common, including their support for tuition breaks for illegal immigrants and opposition to a border fence. They also share abysmal jobs records. Under Rick Perry, Texas unemployment has doubled. And under President Obama more middle class American’s have lost their jobs than anytime in modern history. It is no wonder their only strategy is to issue false and negative attacks on Mitt Romney.”
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Isn't this fun?
I'll bet they spent all Saturday night on the telephone coordinating their comments.
Did they enact the alphabetical posting rule? Amy, Anna...
"Isn't this fun?"
Yes.
Tag was my favorite game growing up. Still is, lol. : )
It sure appears the Romney camp would like to suspend reality for a bit,...since it was under the Bush administration where more jobs were lost, monthly, than any other time.
Oh, maybe those losing their jobs by the hundreds of thousands in 2008 weren't MIDDLE CLASS jobs,...well that makes it better, right?
NOT!
Is this flip flop strategy suppose to make me forget about all of Obama's flip flops.
One of bigger ones being that "I won't hire and take money from lobbyists"
The One Percenter in Chief tells alot of LIES.
Obama doesn't lie. GIve him credit for trying. It's pretty hard to avoid lobbyists in D.C., they are everywhere.
But, Rob, he doesn’t change his core values.
We know Obama and his core values. State one thing you know about Mittens order than he's a Mormon.
Obama doesn't lie.
Oh Amy, I think you need to look at FOIA.
Obama wants a LICENSE TO LIE.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2011/10/foia-obama-wants-license-lie
oh look, a link to an OPINION page,...and with the post,...A Murdoch Rag,...No One THERE has a negative opinion of President Obama,...
RIGGGHHHHHHHHHt,...
Murdoch controls the ACLU???
Oh, Rob, MY APOLOGIES! I got the Examiner confused with the Post,...but really, you linked to an OPINION page by the rag owned by:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28355.html
you don't see the joke? I trade you one Murdoch for one Anschutz,...second verse, same as the first.
Hi
One has to eventually accept that Romney is the only one that has any chance of beating Obama.
Get to understand that or accept another 4 years of the same.
"accept...Romney." You mean settle, right? Its not that I would argue, but its just sad that Romney probably will be the nominee and probably does have the best chance, but NOBODY is excited about Romey as President. The best anyone seems willing to say about him is well, at least he's not Obama. Sad
If the choice is Weathervane Willard or four more years, I'll go with four more years.
Romney has hired a lot of Bush advisers. You know like the one that thought tax cuts and wars goes together for the first time in our history our government was incredibly fiscally dangerous for our economy. That whose advise that Romney is willing to lean on.
Bush tax cuts and killing regulations got us the Bush recession and Romney just can't wait to do it again with the same people guiding him.
I don't know about you, but I am not ready for Bush III yet.
Dennis, Columbus, Ohio
Does any politician REALLY have "core values?" I've gotten very cynical about all of them.
Independent,
So far all the Republican candidates except Romney have not changed their core values like where they stand on abortion, LGBT rights, same sex marriage and several Constitutional Amendments.
Not true, Dennis,
Cain just had a debate with himself last week about Abortion and it being a women's choice,...and him being against abortion,...all in the same paragraph. Priceless!
When I heard him say: "Corporations are people too!" that seemed to come pretty close to his core values. He loves the idea of the corporation as a friendly system because he started out at the top. He's the real Bush-clone, not Perry.
You may be on to something, Amy---Romney's core value may be the almighty dollar---like the ones you see everyone holding in that famous picture of Romney with his colleagues. Apparently that value has stood the test of time with Mitt.
Hey Steeler fan, congrats on the win yesterday. Give my regards to Bob with a bunch of numbers on the end :-).
Thanks, Al---a good performance by the Steelers for sure. I had not realized Bob lotsa numbers was a New England fan---makes the win even better!!
Hi
Acceot the fact tha t Romney is the only one that has a chance to beat Obama. The only one.
If not romney expect another 4 years of the same. Wake Up and face reality.
Refuse to vote for a lesser of two evils. If Romney is the only one that can beat him,
and Romney is another status-quo guy,
then it's really not worth bothering to vote for Romney just to 'vote against Obama', is it?