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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/us/politics/29repubs.html?_r=3D1&hp&o.=

Acrimony in G.O.P. on Eve of Primary

Trying to deflect attention away from the humiliating behavior of the
Democrats in the primaries thus far, eh? Continue sobbing, infant ;0

Your inability to address the facts speaks volumes. You guys sure are
terrified. :)

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

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By JOHN M. BRODER and MICHAEL LUO
Published: January 29, 2008

TAMPA, Fla. -- The Republican contest for Florida ended in acrimony on
Monday as the two leading candidates traded attacks, aggressively
courting voters across the Florida peninsula in a primary battle that
could produce a clear front-runner for the party's presidential
nomination before a virtual national primary next week.

The sparring, between Mitt Romney and Senator John McCain of Arizona,
came as polls showed the race a statistical tie between them, with
Rudolph W. Giuliani and Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas,
lagging.

Mr. Giuliani, former New York mayor, pledged that he would participate
in a Republican presidential debate in California on Wednesday
regardless of where he finished in Tuesday's voting here. Still, if
Florida is not his last stand, it remains the place where he has all
but staked his campaign. And as the hours before voting waned, that
campaign had none of the feel of imminent victory. Though his
organization chartered a Boeing 727 for a day of barnstorming on the
eve of the primary, none of the rallies at airports in Sanford,
Clearwater, Fort Myers or Fort Lauderdale drew even 100 supporters.

Mr. Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, began attacking at dawn,
accusing Mr. McCain of allying himself with liberal Democrats in the
Senate and betraying conservative principles on legislation involving
immigration, the environment and campaign finance.

"If you want that kind of a liberal Democratic course as president,
then you can vote for him," Mr. Romney said at a Texaco gas station in
West Palm Beach at 6:30 a.m. "But those three pieces of legislation,
those aren't conservative. Those aren't Republican."

Mr. McCain volleyed back by describing Mr. Romney as a serial
flip-flopper who had taken multiple positions on a variety of issues,
including gay rights, global warming and immigration. "People, just
look at his record as governor," Mr. McCain said at a shipyard in
Jacksonville. "He has been entirely consistent. He has consistently
taken two sides of every major issue, sometimes more than two."

Monday's charges ended a week of intense campaigning in which Mr.
McCain focused on veterans, senior citizens and Cubans in Miami, and
Mr. Romney on conservatives across the state. Mr. Huckabee, who has
spent little time in Florida, concentrated on religious conservatives.
Mr. Giuliani appealed to transplanted New Yorkers and voters attracted
to his tough-on-terrorism message.

The Democrats are also holding a primary here Tuesday. But no
convention delegates are being awarded in that contest (and no
Democratic candidates have campaigned for it), a result of the
national party's penalizing the state for scheduling it earlier than
party rules allowed.

One wild card in the Republican primary is the hundreds of thousands
of Floridians who have already cast their ballots in early voting,
before the last-minute advertising blitzes by the two leaders and the
weekend endorsements of Mr. McCain by two popular Republican elected
officials, Senator Mel Martinez and Gov. Charlie Crist.

For a time on Monday, Mr. Crist, a moderate elected in 2006 with Mr.
McCain's endorsement, stood on a street corner in Tampa waving a
McCain sign at passing drivers. He spoke at a McCain rally here in the
evening.

Mr. Romney's campaign has spent much time focusing on the so-called
I-4 corridor, which stretches from Tampa to Orlando, as well as the
Jacksonville area. Those two regions, his campaign believes, will
account for more than half the Republican turnout.

His Florida field staff, in the midst of an enormous get-out-the-vote
operation, telephoned more than 100,000 voters in 30 counties over the
weekend, according to Mandy Fletcher, his state director. Volunteers
are going door to door in population centers around the state,
including Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Fort Myers, Palm Beach and
Fort Lauderdale.

Mr. Romney built a sophisticated grass-roots and fund-raising
operation in the state over the last year, while Mr. McCain has had
virtually no Florida infrastructure since his campaign stalled over
the summer. The Romney campaign believes its investment could make the
difference on Tuesday.

Mr. McCain's aides said his campaign, too, was running last-minute
phone banks and get-out-the-vote drives, but acknowledged that they
were being heavily outspent by Mr. Romney.

Both campaigns spent liberally on television and radio advertising and
have been placing automated phone calls carrying negative messages
about each other. Romney aides said on Monday that some of their
candidate's Cuban-American supporters had received phone calls saying
Mr. Romney favored normalized relations with Fidel Castro's Cuba, a
blasphemy to most Cuban =E9migr=E9s. Mr. McCain's staff said it was not=
responsible for the calls.

Florida may be Mr. Romney's last chance to stop Mr. McCain from being
anointed the front-runner in the Republican field. Mr. Romney's
advisers have been laying out certain strategies for the crush of
states that vote on Feb. 5, depending on whether they win or lose. In
the case of a loss, depending on how large the margin and how his
rivals fare, Mr. Romney may have to fall back on something of a
survival strategy, scooping up a few states he can capture with
relatively small expenditure and hoping that Mr. McCain does not sweep
everywhere else and lock up the nomination.

On the other hand, a victory by Mr. Romney in Florida would throw the
race wide open, giving him much needed momentum and most likely an
infusion of cash.

Until the last few days, Mr. Romney largely refrained from criticizing
Mr. McCain in Florida. After vigorously going after Mr. Huckabee in
Iowa and Mr. McCain in New Hampshire, only to come up short in the
nominating contests there, Mr. Romney's campaign tried a different
tack in Michigan. He began focusing more on the economy, pledging to
use his business background to fight for jobs. He won Michigan by a
comfortable margin.

Then, with polls showing the race in Florida to be neck and neck, it
was Mr. McCain who went on the offensive against Mr. Romney over the
weekend, ending something of an unofficial truce that had helped
produce a relatively gentle Republican debate last week in Boca Raton.

Mr. McCain accused Mr. Romney of having called in the spring for a
timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, likening him to the Democrats in
his approach to the conflict.

Mr. Romney denounced the charge as false, and his traveling press
secretary, Eric Fehrnstrom, said Mr. McCain's accusation "raises the
ante" and forced Mr. Romney to "respond in kind."

John M. Broder reported from Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa. Michael
Luo reported from West Palm Beach, Fort Myers and Orlando. Michael
Cooper contributed reporting from Clearwater.

--
"Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government
talking
about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order.
Nothing has
changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists,
we're
talking about getting a court order before we do so"
-George W. Bush, April 20, 2004

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don't like the S-Chip expansion, it is hard to deny what Republicans
are- a bunch of bitter, nasty, petty, snarling, sneering, vicious
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I'm registering Independent tomorrow."

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feloniousmouse@aol.com wrote:

On Jan 29, 6:54 am, 3941 Dead <zepp22113...@finestplanet.com> wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/us/politics/29repubs.html?_r=1&hp&o...

Acrimony in G.O.P. on Eve of Primary

Trying to deflect attention away from the humiliating behavior of the
Democrats in the primaries thus far, eh? Continue sobbing, infant ;0

Your inability to address the facts speaks volumes. You guys sure are
terrified. :)

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

Article Tools Sponsored By
By JOHN M. BRODER and MICHAEL LUO
Published: January 29, 2008

TAMPA, Fla. -- The Republican contest for Florida ended in acrimony on
Monday as the two leading candidates traded attacks, aggressively
courting voters across the Florida peninsula in a primary battle that
could produce a clear front-runner for the party's presidential
nomination before a virtual national primary next week.

The sparring, between Mitt Romney and Senator John McCain of Arizona,
came as polls showed the race a statistical tie between them, with
Rudolph W. Giuliani and Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas,
lagging.

Mr. Giuliani, former New York mayor, pledged that he would participate
in a Republican presidential debate in California on Wednesday
regardless of where he finished in Tuesday's voting here. Still, if
Florida is not his last stand, it remains the place where he has all
but staked his campaign. And as the hours before voting waned, that
campaign had none of the feel of imminent victory. Though his
organization chartered a Boeing 727 for a day of barnstorming on the
eve of the primary, none of the rallies at airports in Sanford,
Clearwater, Fort Myers or Fort Lauderdale drew even 100 supporters.

Mr. Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, began attacking at dawn,
accusing Mr. McCain of allying himself with liberal Democrats in the
Senate and betraying conservative principles on legislation involving
immigration, the environment and campaign finance.

"If you want that kind of a liberal Democratic course as president,
then you can vote for him," Mr. Romney said at a Texaco gas station in
West Palm Beach at 6:30 a.m. "But those three pieces of legislation,
those aren't conservative. Those aren't Republican."

Mr. McCain volleyed back by describing Mr. Romney as a serial
flip-flopper who had taken multiple positions on a variety of issues,
including gay rights, global warming and immigration. "People, just
look at his record as governor," Mr. McCain said at a shipyard in
Jacksonville. "He has been entirely consistent. He has consistently
taken two sides of every major issue, sometimes more than two."

Monday's charges ended a week of intense campaigning in which Mr.
McCain focused on veterans, senior citizens and Cubans in Miami, and
Mr. Romney on conservatives across the state. Mr. Huckabee, who has
spent little time in Florida, concentrated on religious conservatives.
Mr. Giuliani appealed to transplanted New Yorkers and voters attracted
to his tough-on-terrorism message.

The Democrats are also holding a primary here Tuesday. But no
convention delegates are being awarded in that contest (and no
Democratic candidates have campaigned for it), a result of the
national party's penalizing the state for scheduling it earlier than
party rules allowed.

One wild card in the Republican primary is the hundreds of thousands
of Floridians who have already cast their ballots in early voting,
before the last-minute advertising blitzes by the two leaders and the
weekend endorsements of Mr. McCain by two popular Republican elected
officials, Senator Mel Martinez and Gov. Charlie Crist.

For a time on Monday, Mr. Crist, a moderate elected in 2006 with Mr.
McCain's endorsement, stood on a street corner in Tampa waving a
McCain sign at passing drivers. He spoke at a McCain rally here in the
evening.

Mr. Romney's campaign has spent much time focusing on the so-called
I-4 corridor, which stretches from Tampa to Orlando, as well as the
Jacksonville area. Those two regions, his campaign believes, will
account for more than half the Republican turnout.

His Florida field staff, in the midst of an enormous get-out-the-vote
operation, telephoned more than 100,000 voters in 30 counties over the
weekend, according to Mandy Fletcher, his state director. Volunteers
are going door to door in population centers around the state,
including Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Fort Myers, Palm Beach and
Fort Lauderdale.

Mr. Romney built a sophisticated grass-roots and fund-raising
operation in the state over the last year, while Mr. McCain has had
virtually no Florida infrastructure since his campaign stalled over
the summer. The Romney campaign believes its investment could make the
difference on Tuesday.

Mr. McCain's aides said his campaign, too, was running last-minute
phone banks and get-out-the-vote drives, but acknowledged that they
were being heavily outspent by Mr. Romney.

Both campaigns spent liberally on television and radio advertising and
have been placing automated phone calls carrying negative messages
about each other. Romney aides said on Monday that some of their
candidate's Cuban-American supporters had received phone calls saying
Mr. Romney favored normalized relations with Fidel Castro's Cuba, a
blasphemy to most Cuban émigrés. Mr. McCain's staff said it was not
responsible for the calls.

Florida may be Mr. Romney's last chance to stop Mr. McCain from being
anointed the front-runner in the Republican field. Mr. Romney's
advisers have been laying out certain strategies for the crush of
states that vote on Feb. 5, depending on whether they win or lose. In
the case of a loss, depending on how large the margin and how his
rivals fare, Mr. Romney may have to fall back on something of a
survival strategy, scooping up a few states he can capture with
relatively small expenditure and hoping that Mr. McCain does not sweep
everywhere else and lock up the nomination.

On the other hand, a victory by Mr. Romney in Florida would throw the
race wide open, giving him much needed momentum and most likely an
infusion of cash.

Until the last few days, Mr. Romney largely refrained from criticizing
Mr. McCain in Florida. After vigorously going after Mr. Huckabee in
Iowa and Mr. McCain in New Hampshire, only to come up short in the
nominating contests there, Mr. Romney's campaign tried a different
tack in Michigan. He began focusing more on the economy, pledging to
use his business background to fight for jobs. He won Michigan by a
comfortable margin.

Then, with polls showing the race in Florida to be neck and neck, it
was Mr. McCain who went on the offensive against Mr. Romney over the
weekend, ending something of an unofficial truce that had helped
produce a relatively gentle Republican debate last week in Boca Raton.

Mr. McCain accused Mr. Romney of having called in the spring for a
timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, likening him to the Democrats in
his approach to the conflict.

Mr. Romney denounced the charge as false, and his traveling press
secretary, Eric Fehrnstrom, said Mr. McCain's accusation "raises the
ante" and forced Mr. Romney to "respond in kind."

John M. Broder reported from Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa. Michael
Luo reported from West Palm Beach, Fort Myers and Orlando. Michael
Cooper contributed reporting from Clearwater.

--
"Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government
talking
about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order.
Nothing has
changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists,
we're
talking about getting a court order before we do so"
-George W. Bush, April 20, 2004

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"I simply can not believe this is what the Republican party has
become. I just can't. It just makes me sick to think all those years
of supporting this party, and this is what it has become. Even if you
don't like the S-Chip expansion, it is hard to deny what Republicans
are- a bunch of bitter, nasty, petty, snarling, sneering, vicious
thugs, peering through people's windows so they can make fun of their
misfortune.

I'm registering Independent tomorrow."

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