"Mitt Romney thinks he can fool us. He supported abortion on demand, even allowed a law mandating taxpayer-funding for abortion. He says he changed his mind, but he still hasn't changed the law. He told gay organizers in Massachusetts he would be a stronger advocate for special rights than even Ted Kennedy. Now, it's something different."
The McCain campaign announced they pulled the attack ad yesterday.
But James Joyner doesn't think the ad rises to the level of slandering gays:
Does this amount to “gay baiting”? That seems a bit much, since the target of the attack is Romney, an open heterosexual. The main thrust of the message is that Romney is a dishonest flip-flopper who’ll tell you what you want to hear. But, certainly, the choice of abortion and gay rights among the dozens of issues on which Romney has changed positions to highlight would appear to be aimed at social conservatives.
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I do not think the McCain campaign was gay bashing - they were simple countering the real "gay bashing" going on with the Romeny campaign - there paid media was using all the "code words" re: marriage and pandering to the marriage amendment crowd here in Florida. Florida is not Rudy Country or Romney Country - it's McCain Country!
Posted by: calfloridia
| January 30, 2008 10:02 AM
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