Thread: Did McCain call Romney a 'pig'?

Did McCain call Romney a 'pig'?
By Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor December 29, 2007
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.

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Romney has to worry about repeating the same mistakes as Gephardt.

You attack your opponent long enough and both of your campaigns sink.

I'd hate to see Huckaboob benefit from this internecine warfare.

McCain DID want illegal aliens to remain permanently in the US. That's a fact!

W

Hey McCain,

I hope Romney spends his first term in office making the rest of the United States more like Arizona.

R

FACT: McCain Sponsored An Immigration Plan To Allow 11 Million Illegals To Remain In The U.S. "The McCain plan -- which is being put forward in the U.S. House by Arizona GOP Congressmen Jeff Flake and Jim Kolbe -- allows the 11 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S. to stay in the country if they apply for legal status and pay a $2,000 fine." (Mike Sunnucks, "Napolitano, Hayworth Criticize Bush On Illegal Immigration," The Phoenix Business Journal, 2/1/06)

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) Called The McCain-Kennedy Immigration Bill "Amnesty." "[McCain] has also teamed up with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (Mass.), a liberal Democrat, on an immigration bill that many conservatives despise. 'It would have legalized and provided a path for citizenship, which is amnesty, for 66.1 million people,' said Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who has called Kennedy and McCain 'amnesty mercenaries.'" (Michael D. Shear, "McCain Fighting To Recapture Maverick Spirit Of 2000 Bid," The Washington Post, 3/15/07)

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More on McAmnesty here:
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog