The Salt Lake Tribune, in its never-ending quest to bring justice and reason to the Intermountain West, picked up a New York Times story today that claims Mitt Romney is, well, not very well-liked by his Republican opponents:
“Never get into a wrestling match with a pig,” Senator John McCain said in New Hampshire this month after reporters asked him about Mr. Romney. “You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.”
The Romney camp, not surprisingly, is nonplussed:
A spokesman for the Romney campaign, Kevin Madden, said, “I think it’s largely driven by the fact that everybody’s taught to tackle the guy on the field with the ball.”
The pundits are having so much fun with the ongoing shouting match between Clinton and Obama that they probably want to bait the Republicans into a similar fight. Both McCain and Huckabee seem willing, especially considering, at the moment, Romney and McCain are running cheek by jowl in two primaries.
Here’s hoping they all keep their ties and jackets on and stay focused on the real issues—like, oh, I don’t know, maybe the ECONOMY?
(And for an interesting take on Hillary by one of her constituents, check this.)