Did McCain call Romney a 'pig'?
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff
DOVER, N.H. -- As Senator John McCain rolled down a New Hampshire highway today in his "Straight Talk Express" campaign bus, he listened to a description of the latest attack on him by his chief rival in this state's primary, Mitt Romney.
He smirked as he heard the former Massachusetts governor's assertion that McCain wanted to allow illegal immigrants to remain permanently in the United States.
Asked how he intended to respond, the Arizona Republican said: "Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty -- and the pig likes it."
The back-of-the-bus compartment in which McCain was holding forth went silent for several seconds. Finally, a reporter asked: was McCain comparing Romney to a pig? McCain laughed and paused as he formulated his response: "That was a general philosophical approach to American politics."
The moment encapsulated McCain's day on the campaign trail, during which he attended several town hall-style meetings attended by overflowing audiences of several hundred people. He reveled in the large crowds, which he said reminded him of his surge before his 2000 primary win, while also wrestling with an array of charges against him arriving over the television airwaves and via email messages. He was caustic and confident, cracking jokes in his trademark style as traveled from Dover to Merrimack to Manchester while Romney and other Republican rivals were campaigning in Iowa.



LOL...How prophetic. Just this morning the Romney-hating Globe analyzed the danger of Mitt "attacking" their man McCain.
Let's see the Globe spin this one.
If tables were turned, headline would be a bit more matter of fact, like oh say, Romney Calls McCain 'Pig'
PS to liberal media. McCain has ZERO chance at the nomination. YOu're wasting your time with the inkind editorials and stories. He may score well in NH where the Indies (cough, cough Dems) can vote in either primary but the train stops there for the Straight Jacket Express.
McCain/Feingold MoveOn.org Bill
McCain/Kennedy Amnesty Bill
McCain/Kennedy Anti Bush Tax Cuts
McCain/Durbin Al Queda Bill of Rights Bill
McCain/ Gang of 14 Hijack
McCain/Global Warming Hucksters and Shysters Bowing
Takes one to know one?
Anybody who believes a single word that comes out of Mitt Romney's mouth should be institutionalized, since they are clearly so mentally deficient allowing them to interact with general society puts us sane, rational Americans at risk.
I love the selective classification by the media of "attack" ads vs. contrast ads. My feeling of an attack ad is something of a personal nature like religion, calling someone a pig, insinuating that because a candidate is rich he cares nothing for poor to middle class people. A persons integrity still exists even if the media tears it to shreds in the public eye. Flip flop I am so sick of that it is about as original as a barb wire tattoo around the bicep or a butterfly on the lower back of a female.
Mit is no pig...he's a snake.
McCain: this year's Bob Dole. The MSM's pick to go against their whoever/weak candidate......
Don't get manipulated by his 'old Vet' routine, NH - he's no conservative and he's no moderate, either.
McCain: this year's Bob Dole. The MSM's pick to go against their whoever/weak candidate......
Don't get manipulated by his 'old Vet' routine, NH - he's no conservative and he's no moderate, either.
Romney...with each new distorted attack...proves what kind of leader he would be. Slimy, smarmy and all about Romney...end of story.
Really, is there any candidate from either party who is less trustworthy right now? Anyone? I really don't think so.
Mitt wants illegals to stay as long as it takes them to cut his grass....What a hypocrite - McCain benefits enormously from that poseur who would sell his soul to get a vote!
McCain is saying one thing .... like let"s not get negative and then doing the exact opposite. He is into negative and has been since last Spring. Romney's ads are informative and helpful to those who want to know the facts about the issues. His ads are not personal attacks.
McCain's response is like a boy to his schol principal.
I'm sure McCain meant the remark metaphorically.
Or philosophically, as he put it.
But if he had meant it literally, he would have been right.
I don't know; McCain's a scrappy sort. Maybe he was referring to himself in an effort to taunt Romney?
Mitt Romney has admitted he has made mistakes in the past and many (not all) have accepted him as being sincere. It is tough on a man who will never admit he has made a mistake to see them as a focus in a comparison ad on TV. McCain's response has been anger and obvious frustration because the comparisons are facts from his past.
Mittwit is not a pig, he's much more dangerous as a cameleon who evolves his positions quicker then it takes to take the latest poll. He's an empty suit, born to entitlement who is very good at taking the credit of others such as the Olympics and avoiding the mess he left behind in Mass while he toured the country during his last year in office the last year. Then he abandons his Lt Gov during the election, just the kind of guy I don't want as president.
John McCain = pro-Defense Democrat. Joe Lieberman is more of a conservative than McCain. It's funny to watch McCain and Huckabee try to avoid answering why their records are distasteful here and disgusting there simply by saying Mitt Romney is being dishonest. Memo to Campaigns McCain and Huckabee: your records are public record, and those records are in the Romney ads. If something in an ad is dishonest, then what is it? Hm? Speak up.
Saying Romney is dishonest, a pig, and that hey don't not vote for him because he's Mormon (wink wink) is the only tactic they have aside from the flip flop charge, which is a joke in and of itself since flip-flop was a term used to describe the whimsical musings of wandering John Kerry's life stroll throughout the Senate that gave him the opportunity to contradict everything he ever did or said, whereas Mitt has had one area, abortion, where it's been a change--oh wow. So here we have a candidate whose record and positions are not being criticized since they are largely exemplary and superior to his Republican opponents versus two pandering liberal Republicans who are engaging in personal attacks, yet the media is focused on how Mitt's negative ads will backfire on him and yield wins in Iowa and NH for Hickabee and the Maverick so that Romney will be done, and then Rudy the RINO can enter center stage and win the GOP nomination, securing all sorts of liberal social positions which is what the liberals in media care most dearly about.
It's so easy to read the motives of media through their focus on the hyped prospect that Huckster & McCain could maybe execute their block of Mitt just so Rudy gets it that you know it won't happen that way for them, lol. Romney has NH sealed and locked. McCain has no shot there whatsoever, but since he's a media darling, they prop him up just to see if they can affect Mitt there as he's in a decent race with Gomer in Iowa. Can't wait to see their faux-awe when Mitt wins both states.
Anyway, you think about it....Huckabee, McCain, Rudy = all oddly liberal Republicans, and all get better coverage in media. The funniest part is, out of these 2 and Mitt, only Romney stands a chance to have a landslide win in 2012, based on his past of actually reforming and improving, oh, I dunno, everything he's ever ran before.
Wow, can't the GOP come up with a candidate that isn't a total loser? Oh wait -- their last loser became president...
If you don't know who Romney and McCain are .. how about listening to someone whom you do know and trust .. ? like Robert Bork ..
www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Bork_Endorses_Romney/2007/12/15/57308.html
Some of Mitt's critics here are ignorant or their heads are stuck where the sun don't shine. Either they didn't make better research or they are just like Huckabee and McCain who refused to say anything negative but now are the real hypocrites and dishonest ones. Mitt's ads are about contrasts of their records which are public anyway. I still believe Mitt is the main target because he's the better than all of them. From too good, too presedential to dishonesty to a pig? Their blows are getting lower and lower. That may be the only way to beat Mitt.
"Throughout my career, I have had the honor of serving under several Presidents and am proud to make today's endorsement. No other candidate will do more to advance the conservative judicial movement than Governor Mitt Romney. He knows firsthand how the judicial branch can profoundly affect the future course of a state and a nation. I greatly admired his leadership in Massachusetts in the way that he responded to the activist court's ruling legalizing same-sex 'marriage.' His leadership on the issue has served as a model to the nation on how to respect all of our citizens while respecting the rule of law at the same time."
"Our next President may be called upon to make more than one Supreme Court nomination, and Governor Romney is committed to nominating judges who take their oath of office seriously and respect the rule of law in our nation. I also support Governor Romney because of his character, his integrity and his stands on the major issues facing the United States."
Robert Bork
They all are pigs...
Where were the grownups on the Globe's editoral staff when this was written up? Sounds like it's past time to give them cookies, milk, and a blankey and put them down for a nap.
One nation, under McCain
Don't let Mccain do for America what he has done for Arizona!
We are still "tail sore" here, and we never even got kissed..............
Why can't we get decent, honorable individuals to run for president? I know... it's the $.
Come on people. McCain's comeback was pretty darned funny. It was a commentary on politics in general. But on the other hand, Mitt is a phony and a fraud and it's astounding that people still want to vote for him. He blows with the wind and is nothing but negative. Not that I really care. I'm voting Democrat!!
Come on people. McCain's comeback was pretty darned funny. It was a commentary on politics in general. But on the other hand, Mitt is a phony and a fraud and it's astounding that people still want to vote for him. He blows with the wind and is nothing but negative. Not that I really care. I'm voting Democrat!!
Haven't any of you ever heard that 'wrestling with a pig' crack before? It's an old line. To jump from that to "McCain called Romney a pig" is exactly the stupididty that we have come to expect from the punditocracy. That's why we don't listen to you jerks anymore.
They both belong to the Group Of Pigs.
'Mit is no pig...he's a snake.'
That would be correct, assuming you meant 'Mitt" as apposed to "Mit".
Romeny is a snake and McCain's a pig.
What a rude, low-class attack on Romney.
I have lost all respect for McCain
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