Romney to run ad against Huckabee

[brooklynite]

Source: AP

His shot at the Republican presidential nomination in jeopardy, Mitt Romney will run a TV ad starting Tuesday against Iowa front-runner Mike Huckabee while weighing how much negative campaigning he can add to the methodical plan he's followed all year.

Romney's campaign said Monday a "contrast ad" on illegal immigration is planned for Iowa on Tuesday. Aides said the ad identifies the former Arkansas governor and characterized it as a reaction to Huckabee's own TV commercial in which he touts his immigration proposal.

Such elevated rhetoric — including the Romney campaign's mass e-mailing Monday of an anti-Huckabee Web column — reflects a growing sense of urgency at Romney headquarters, where the game plan all year has been predicated on bowling over rivals with victories in lead-voting Iowa and New Hampshire.

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Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican" - Ronald Reagan

[MADem]

1. Can't wait to see it--it will be perceived as UNFAIR. Huckapoo has no money, Romney is RICH.

I think that might not play too well in IA...

[JuniperLea]

2. Without regard to his own glass house...

That is plain stupid... even for a Republican.

[Olney Blue]

3. Mittens versus Mikey. Let the games begin, and may the better

Christian win.

[IsItJustMe]

4. If it was me, I would Willy Horton his ass.

[brooklynite]

5. If I wanted to be REALLY sneaky...

I'd take an exact copy of the Willie Horton ad, use Huckabee's name instead, and wait for someone to attack me for copyright infringement.....

[sjdnb]

6. And, then, Huck can Joseph Smith Willard's rear

It should be a beautiful thing to observer.

[AlinPA]

7. It is not going to work. He needs to make an ad of him quoting the bible and prayzing Jesus.

Then he will get the RW "Christians"'s attention.

[Lautremont]

8. Just slow motion shots of him rolling and writhing on the ground

in the grip of some ecstatic fit, bellowing and mooing and jabbering in slo-mo tongues - just thirty seconds of that exactly - and "Mitt" will have a political ad for the ages and the nomination in hand.