Romney vs. McCain on the Airwaves

By: Andante Higgins
Topics: Campaign '08

(CBS)

From CBS News' Dante Higgins:

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Mitt Romney fired the first shot this morning with a TV ad here in the Granite State directly hitting John McCain's record. By the end of the day, McCain had responded with his own anti-Romney ad.

In Romney's ad, he went after McCain on taxes and immigration and the ad's announcer ends by saying "There is a difference" between the two.

McCain and his campaign went into response mode, culminating in a late afternoon TV adof their own which quotes New Hampshire newspaper articles praising McCain and calling Romney "a phony."

This afternoon, after a campaign event in Burlington, Iowa, and before his own ad was released, McCain laughed off Romney's ad.

"The best indicator that I'm doing very well is that when you're attacked by Romney," he said, suggesting his rise in New Hampshire polls is provoking this attention from Romney.

"And I don't know how to respond to some of it because his position may change tomorrow," he added. "Unfortunately we have to respond. This is one of a number of attacks he's made on me, but as we've gone up in the polls, these attacks have grown more, shall we say, hysterical."

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by brittanicus-2009 December 29, 2007 3:00 PM EST: Only Duncan Hunter, Fred Thompson and Ron Paul have the right credentials, to stop the disasterous period of red ink. Alas, we cannot trust any Democrats to stop the illegal alien invasion, because their pandering for votes during the occupation of our nation. Even McCain destroyed his chances when he joined up with ultra-liberal Ted Kennedy to pass a mammoth immigration bill. We would have had millions of illegal aliens in our Social Security system, who never paid into it.

Taxpayers must stand with any official, who is willing to go that extra mile; no matter the political consequences. Very few politicians have the backbone to consumate the majority will of THE PEOPLE. They have become panderers to corporate and globalist open-border, unfair free-traders favors. America can no longer afford the $2 trillion dollar a year, to support the pariah contractors and businesses that hire illegal immigrants.; Reply to this comment


by giantrobot2 December 29, 2007 1:39 PM EST: Mitt Romney is a phony, even the staunch New Hampshire newspaper leader got it exactly right.

Mitt Romney can''t pull the wool over the American people. He thinks he can buy the American voters vote with his gobs of peronal bank account money. Americans have respect and can not be purchased.

Mike Huckabee is out there doing it the old fashion way by earning the respect of the American voters. His honest, humble and trustworthy character connects with the American people. He is a dynamic, charaistmatic speaker who is also funny and warm.

Mitt Romney on the other hand is sooooo phony, him and Fred Thompson are complete phonys. Boring beauracratic money hungry red tape politicians. They want the extreme wealthy to rule over the Americans with an iron fist.

Americans will not let our nation revert to the Kings in the palaces type government who rule with wealth instead of honor.; Reply to this comment


by mflytrue December 29, 2007 1:55 AM EST: Stating your opponent''s record clearly should be allowed in a presidential campaign and is different from an "attack". And it takes much more than a folksy sense of humor to run the oval office. Huck would destroy the enconomy and that is nothing to laugh about! Huckabee for pastor-in-chief! Romney for president!; Reply to this comment


by grassboots December 28, 2007 10:48 PM EST: Romney started attacks on Huckabee weeks ago. You can''t beat something with nothing. It is probably doomed fail. The folks of Iowa and NH don''t cotton to that.; Reply to this comment