It May Be Legal, We May Know About It But It Is STILL A Dirty Trick
To an inattentive listener, the 30-second phone message that went out to about 80,000 Michiganders last week might have sounded like a standard robo-call made on behalf of Rick Santorum’s campaign.
“Please Press ’1′ if you are committed to voting for Rick Santorum in next week’s GOP primary,” said a recorded voice in the call. “Vote Rick Santorum on Tuesday, February 28.”
But the calls were issued not by supporters of the conservative Republican White House hopeful but by Joe DiSano, a Democratic operative in the state to whom the idea of Santorum actually becoming president is both implausible and unpalatable.
“Democrats can help embarrass Mitt Romney and expose him as the weak front-runner that he is by supporting Rick Santorum on Tuesday,” DiSano said in the robo-call, revealing its intent.
Other coverage at Big Government and the Washington Post. If you are the recipient of this sort of help, running on the fact that you are the “real” conservative, what’s the honorable response here? Or do you just take the votes and run?
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sewinglady on 27 Feb 2012 at 8:56 pm #
I just received a robocall from the Santorum campaign. The speaker was a “Christian” man who told me to change history and vote for life and marriage by voting for Rick Santorum in the Arizona primary. The call would be fine if it hadn’t been for the “Christian” dog whistle part. I AM a Christian, and I did vote to change history and to support life and marriage by voting for Mitt Romney, who is also a “Christian” and who has already been directly fighting the culture wars on life and marriage in a very real way. Probably more real than what Santorum has done, because Mitt had to obey the laws while fighting against them. How dare they use the phone line that I pay for to spew their dog whistle bigotry?
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