Buzz Feed notes that Romney used to take great pains to be civil when criticizing Obama while on the stump. That civility has apparently gone out the window. Officials with the Romney campaign say previously off-limits topics, like Obama's drug use as a youth, are no longer taboo.
Indeed, facing what the candidate and his aides believe to be a series of surprisingly ruthless, unfounded, and unfair attacks from the Obama campaign on Romney's finances and business record, the Republican's campaign is now prepared to go eye for an eye in an intense, no-holds-barred act of political reprisal, said two Romney advisers who spoke on condition of anonymity. In the next chapter of Boston's pushback — which began last week when they began labeling Obama a "liar" — very little will be off-limits, from the president's youthful drug habit, to his ties to disgraced Chicago politicians.
"I mean, this is a guy who admitted to cocaine use, had a sweetheart deal with his house in Chicago, and was associated and worked with Rod Blagojevich to get Valerie Jarrett appointed to the Senate," the adviser said. "The bottom line is there'll be counterattacks."
The reference to Obama's past drug use seems to suggest that former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu wasn't going off-script after all when he dinged the president for spending "his early years in Hawaii smoking something" during a Tuesday morning Fox News appearance.
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While Obama is attacking Mitt Romney's performance at Bain Capital, a legitimate issue since Romney is using this experience as the basis of his campaign, the Republican rabble rousers are attacking on the false issue of religion questioning whether or or not Obama is a Christian.
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