Romney: McCain's Tactic "Reminiscent Of Nixon"
LONG BEACH, CALIF. -- Arguing that John McCain took "a sharp detour off the Straight Talk Express," Mitt Romney said McCain's accusation that Romney wanted to set a date for troop withdrawal from Iraq was "disingenuous and not honorable."
"Had he a question about this, he could have raised it any time between April and now," Romney told reporters here. "But to raise it outside a debate and to do it in a way with blasted out to people in Florida was something reminiscent of the Nixon era, and I don't think I want to see our party go back to that kind of campaigning."
This morning, Romney signed off on a seven-figure ad buy in California and other February 5th states, signaling that he is ready to dip back into his pockets to try to derail McCain's path to the nomination.
"And so we'll be advertising," Romney said. "But frankly at this stage, I don't think anyone will be advertising on a per person basis at the level we did in Iowa and New Hampshire, Michigan, Florida—those were the early states. We all invested pretty heavily in those early states. I'm sure some of us wish we had invested less early and could do more now."