Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Running for McCain's Veep?   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

This comes from an e-mail that just went out from the Brownback for president campaign:

...after his staff unjustly maligned Senator Brownback's record on life issues, and then Senator McCain's record on life issues, Governor Romney continued this tactic by untruthfully characterizing the record of President Bush on life issues. It is disturbing that Governor Romney has seen fit to respond to legitimate questions about his own record by falsely attempting to reinvent everyone else in the race (and President Bush) in his own image...

The shame of this is I think Romney may be the most liable to lead on the social issues — if his cloning and marriage fights in Massachusetts are any indication. On the chance he might be a true-blue latter-day lifer it strikes me as unwise for Brownback — who is running in part to make sure such issues get a hearing, right? — to tear him down so directly and consistently. People would still be thoroughly scrutinizing Romney's record — as we should any candidate — without Brownback pile-on.

02/27 01:25 PMShare