The super-PACs out out in force, at least on conservative talk radio.
Yesterday, I heard a pro-Romney PAC going after Rick Santorum as a Washington insider. Yeah, like Romney would vote more to Santorum's right were he there from 1994-2006.
Yes, Santorum lost badly in 2006, Mitt... didn't even bother to run for re-election that year.
Santorum earned some money as a consultant and board member which can be spun as lobbying, but Romney was wealthy enough to live off of his investments and thus didn't need no steenking employers who can be spun against him.
Of course, an attack ad doesn't get the counter-spin attached to it like a blog post will.
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Speaking of attack ads, Newt's PAC is out after Romney as the choice of the establishment, from the folks that gave us the car-wreck campaigns of Dole and McCain; at least you hear the sound of a bad collision after those two centrists are invoked. Nice ad, but the downside of a negative ad in a multi-party race is that the anti-establishmentarians will likely flow more to Santorum than Gingrich.
Also, in Romney's defense, he's more conservative than either of those two GOP presidential losers of the past; he's the most moderate of the current pack on balance, but the bar has been shifted to the right in the last decade and especially the last four years with the advent of the Tea Party and a well-left president to rail against.
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12 days to go before we can put these to bed in Michigan and wait for the general election mudslinging to come once the primary campaign runs its course; the winner's PAC friends can take aim at Obama and the liberal PAC daddies can then point both barrels at the GOP nominee.
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