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...Indeed one thing both McCain and Romney staffers agree on: The aside and the two camp's reactions to it highlight the fundamental differences between the campaigns - and the character of the candidates. In an e-mail, Romney spokeman Madden even put it in chart form...
...Romney is, in many ways, the anti-McCain. Polished where McCain is rough, smiling where McCain grimaces, very, very tan where as McCain is pale. Romney's successes have come in large part due to a smooth manner and a gentle way with words; McCain has succeeded in politics despite lacking those skills...
...cannot brush off McCain's "small varmint gun" quip as entirely lacking substance. If anything, it's a model of political economy: There's the obvious reference to Romney's now-notorious "evolving" opinions (on gay rights, on abortion, on immigration), there's the more obscure dig at Romney's comic explanation for his spotty hunting record (the "lifelong hunter" has been on two hunts - "for small varmints, if you will"). And there's the for-junkies-only joke, resurrecting a six-month-old charge that Romney's landscaping company employed illegal immigrants from Guatemala. As an added bonus...
...salty McCain riposte, this one to Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn; it included both a "barnyard epithet" (as it came to be known in the Nixon White House transcripts) and a verb last in political news when uttered by Dick Cheney. (Notably, the harshest reaction reporters received from Romney when they pressed him about those laboring Guatemalans was "Geez...
...course, the immigration bill now being considered is anything but politically expedient - it's an albatross for all the conservatives associated with it. The truly politically expedient position for Republicans would be to criticize the bill (and "amnesty") without offering any alternative. (Tuesday Romney, in an echo of his refusal to offer his opinion on the surge earlier this year, told reporters that he didn't have a direct suggestion for how to fix the legislation: "I'm not in the position to make that call today...