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At first I thought that going after former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for putting his dog's kennel on top of his car for a long trip was the best the überLibs could do.
Now, they hammer the Governor this morning for "apparently" distancing himself from the GOP.
From CNN's Political Ticker blog:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Already the victim of previous YouTube assaults, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney now faces a new online video that shows the GOP presidential hopeful repeatedly distancing himself from the Republican Party during his 2002 gubernatorial run.
The video, posted on YouTube Thursday by the Massachusetts Democratic Party, shows several clips of Romney tamping down his Republican affiliation and advocating for political balance.
"I lived in a place that had a one-party state that was primarily Republican. I thought, 'Well, won't that be nice?' The answer is no," Romney says in one of the video's clips.
"I've been very clear, I think, to people all across the Commonwealth, that my 'R' didn't stand so much for 'Republican' as it does for 'reform,'" Romney is also seen saying.
Romney spokesman Kevin Madden brushed aside the video, arguing it indicates Massachusetts Democrats view him as the "greatest threat to them in 2008."
"You know you're making great progress and you're doing things right as a good Republican when the wrong-way crowd in the Democratic Party starts attacking you," he added.
A YouTube video of Romney defending abortion rights and gay rights as a Senate candidate in 1994 received wide exposure earlier in the year. Last month, fellow GOP candidate John McCain's campaign posted a video of then-Gov. Romney in 2005 saying he supported maintaining the state's abortion rights.
It looks like that even the Massachusetts Democrat Party forgets that it's headquartered in the most liberal state in the union. That state hasn't done well with all Democrats now, has it? We live in a two-party system. I don't want all Republicans or all Democrats running anything! I want two parties (or more) and especially on a state level to keep things in check.
But, leave it to the Massachusetts Dems to make that sound like a bad thing. Single-party demagoguery is bad no matter which party it is, thanks.
What did the Democrat Party expect Mitt to do? That's the climate that they've created in Massachusetts and they've been doing it for decades.
Any Republican campaigning in Taxachusetts has to run a creative campaign to get elected, and that's what Mitt Romney did. Regardless of how he ran, he governed as a Republican Governor. Democrats turned out to vote for him in record numbers in that state because he did promise reform and Governor Romney did his best to deliver on that promise.
What a shock that the Dems in Massachusetts would focus on sound bites from file footage. That's an indication of how scared they are, nothing else.
William Smith
ConservativeBlogger.com
