Ben LaBolt, press secretary for the Obama campaign, said in an appearance on MSNBC Thursday that Mitt Romney’s attacks on President Obama for running a hateful, divisive campaign are hypocritical because Romney himself has run a negative campaign.
“Over the course of the past year, Gov. Romney has run almost an entirely negative campaign, tearing down his opponents and after tearing them down, telling them to stop whining,” LaBolt said. “Over the past weekend, when he announced his vice presidential selection, he said that he wanted to focus on the economic choice in this election, which the president has been focused on all along. But the other night, he abandoned that pledge and strangely accused the president of running a hateful campaign.”
LaBolt also said Romney’s ads accusing Obama of ending welfare’s work requirements demonstrate the Republican’s hypocrisy.
Romney is calling the president divisive “at the same time as he’s got these ads on the air that are [demonstrably] false, that President Clinton said are false,” LaBolt said.
