Romney Criticizes McCain Legislation

[Attero Dominatus]

Romney Criticizes McCain Legislation
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Jan 28, 6:06 PM (ET)

By LIBBY QUAID

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Mitt Romney and John McCain accused each other Monday of being liberals, a charge tantamount to blasphemy in the caustic campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

One day before the crucial Florida primary, Romney lambasted the Arizona senator for a host of "liberal answers" to the country's problems. Among them: McCain's legislation curbing money in politics, his more forgiving view of illegal immigrants and his backing of an energy bill that Romney said would raise consumer costs.

"And I just don't think those liberal answers are what America is looking for, not for the Republican Party or for any party, for that matter," Romney said in Fort Myers, Fla.

McCain accused Romney of "wholesale deception of voters" and of flip-flopping on the issues.

"On every one of the issues he has attacked us on, Mitt Romney was for it before he was against it," McCain said.

He added, "The truth is, Mitt Romney was a liberal governor of Massachusetts who raised taxes, imposed with Ted Kennedy a big government mandate health care plan that is now a quarter of a billion dollars in the red, and managed his state's economy incompetently, leaving Massachusetts with less job growth than 46 other states."

McCain told a Jacksonville audience that Romney has been "entirely consistent," then quipped: "He's consistently taken at least two sides of every issue, sometimes more than two."

Since Friday, McCain has been running negative radio commercials that criticize Romney. The campaign also has a Web ad superimposing Romney's face on the image of a windsurfing Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee.

The Romney campaign said voters have been receiving automated phone calls that say Romney supports taxpayer-funded abortions and opposes President Bush's tax cuts, neither of which is true. Another set of calls from an unknown critic claim Romney favors direct talks with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, said Mandy Fletcher, Romney's Florida campaign director.

Two liberal "republicans" accusing each other of being liberal   

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[Atomic Lib Smasher]

Those are are choices (unfortunatly).... guess we gotta live with them. God, it's depressing.

[Attero Dominatus]

Those are are choices (unfortunatly).... guess we gotta live with them. God, it's depressing.

Yeah unfortunately. I am not even going to bother voting on February 19th (when the Primary comes here).