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Feb 4th, 2008 at 7:53 am by Susie

Considering the source, this is interesting:

MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. - Mitt Romney’s campaign is blasting out automated phone calls that feature a recording of former senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania raising questions about John McCain’s “temperament” - a hot-button issue that Romney himself has assiduously avoided.

Santorum said in an interview yesterday that he wrote the script himself, and the campaign deferred to him and approved it.

“I think that to me it is a relevant issue for people to consider,” he said. “I think it’s one without question that factors into his ability to govern, to form coalitions, and to get things done.”

But Romney had insisted as recently as last week that he would not make an issue of McCain’s temperament, which some critics have said tends toward the hot-tempered and angry.

Santorum said he had witnessed problems with McCain’s temperament, which he declined to detail. “I don’t know anybody in the Senate who hasn’t. Everybody has their McCain story.”

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on 04 Feb 2008 at 8:43 am1brendan

that’s no surprise.
right-wing radio has been on an anti-mccain jihad (I listen every day to get a sense of what the wingnuts are up to) for the past 2-3 weeks. This past Friday night, Hannity had Santorum (on the show, not on his withered flaccid penis), and the Rickster went off about how McCain’s not a conservative, he’s a crapshoot, his temper is troubling.

ohn Cole puts it best:

For as long as I can remember, McCain has been anti-abortion, for fiscal conservatism and balanced budgets and against wasteful spending, and an avowed and committed hawk and ardent military supporter. By my count, that is, or at least used to be, the trinity for the modern GOP. Those were the issues that, at a glance, defined conservatism, and McCain was on the “right” side of every one of them. Mitt Romney, not so much.

So how is it that these lunatics have so completely convinced themselves that Romney, who will say ANYTHING to get elected, is the actual conservative? It is becoming clearer and clearer that Mitt Romney is little more than the Manchurian Candidate for the oligarchy, and the notion of their puppet figure losing to someone who will occasionally tell them to go fuck themselves has them in a real tizzy.
on 04 Feb 2008 at 9:12 am2Snarki, child of Loki

I wager that McCain was all mean and dismissive of Little Ricky’s man-on-dog obsessions, and that’s just intolerable.

Mitt, on the other hand, knows exactly how to deal with dogs and has Little Ricky’s full support.
on 04 Feb 2008 at 10:41 am3mbw

Had McCain done his job, Santorum would have been one of the Congressional crooks sunk by the Abramoff hearings - Santorum loved himself some Italia Federici, and introduced her to his favorite Pennsylvania buddies (including mob buddies) in 2000. While McCain has been able to extort those who are still in power, I’m noticing a break with the former-power clique, such as Santorum. I’m wondering if Romney has finally figured it all out and promised that he can be trusted to keep the dirt under the rug better than Maverick McCain.