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February 04, 2008
Romney Whacks Huckabee, Finally
To be honest, I was beginning to wonder whether Romney had it in him. One of Romney's recent campaign lines is that a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain, because he's the only candidate who can keep The Maverick™ from the nomination.
Huckabee then cast Romney’s comment as an attempt to keep voters from going to the polls.Given the level of low-class nastiness Huckabee has thrown at Romney over the course of this campaign, I'm surprised it took the Romney campaign this long to respond. (H/t: Ace)“If you try to discourage people from voting for somebody, what else would you call it? Isn’t voter suppression when you try to keep people from voting a certain way, by anybody’s definition? … Isn’t that voter suppression, suppressing the vote, pushing it down, keeping people from feeling comfortable and going and making a vote? I think that’s exactly what it is,” Huckabee told reporters during a stop in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Monday.
But Romney, speaking in Atlanta, dismissed the charge, saying Huckabee has misused the term.
“First a couple of rules in politics. One, no whining. And Number 2, you get them to vote for you. And so I want them not to vote for Mike Huckabee and not to vote for John McCain and to vote for me. … That’s not voter suppression. That’s known as politics,” Romney said. “I want people to vote, but I want them to vote for me.”
Posted by slublog at February 4, 2008 07:53 PM
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I'm not a big Romney fan, but I know why he hasn't really responded... He's above it. He isn't sleezy. Frankly, I consider it a reason to vote for him.
Posted by: Dan Pete at February 4, 2008 11:02 PM