There have been some interesting developments in the republican presidential primaries of late and the newest came yesterday with Rick Santorum and his strategy to do robocalls to democrats urging them to vote for him because Romney didn't support the bailouts of Chrysler and GM. Now I will have to say that it is an odd move considering Santorum doesn't agree with the bailouts either. By asking someone to vote for you because of your opponent's stance on an issue would usually make that voter come to the conclusion that you have the opposite view. But in this case Romney and Santorum pretty much agree. So this is a strange tactic by Santorum.
The real irony of the situation though, is what Romney said about the tactic. He said that it was an "outrageous and a terrible dirty trick." Romney also said, "this is a new low for his campaign and that's saying something." Now is it just me or is this the "pot calling the kettle black?" Romney has ran, by far, the dirtiest campaign yet. His whole platform is mud slinging. He can't run on his record because he is way too moderate and when he ran against Kennedy for Massachusetts Senator he was running as a progressive and attacking Kennedy from the left. Now Romney claims to be the only true conservative in the race even though his record doesn't show it. That is why, whenever another candidate gets close to him in the polls, his platform is to tear the other person down.
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