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January 30, 2008

New Low for McLame Campaign?

Posted by Dave Blount at January 30, 2008 8:34 AM

You have to wonder if any tactic could be beneath John "Lettuce" McCain's Doubletalk Express campaign, after his phony claim that Romney supports a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, and now this outrage:

The day before polls close in Tuesday's critical Florida primary, some voters in the Miami area received automated phone calls in Spanish falsely accusing Mitt Romney of supporting an opening of relations with Cuban President Fidel Castro.

A key member of Romney's Latin American policy team, Ambassador Roger Noriega, had been on local radio on Monday morning talking about Romney's anti-Castro stance. "It was obviously a dirty tactic and strategy to rebut the efforts we made to let the [Hispanic] community know our position," said Al Cardenas, Romney's Florida state chairman.

Asked if he suspected rival John McCain, Cardenas responded, "Obviously it's a camp of one of our opponents," later adding "I can't specifically state with certainty it is John McCain's campaign, all I know is there are two campaigns making these calls, ours and his and these calls started immediately after our programming on that issue."

McCain took Florida largely because of overwhelming support from Hispanics, many of whom are refugees from communist Cuba.

As we've learned from the Clintons, there's a difference between hardball and gutter ball.

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