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What a hit piece on Romney!

p>Two days after you run pieces on how he won the CPAC poll you announce that his plight is desperately hopeless and his only option left is to attack everyone else. From what I could learn from you article he is pointing out differences between his positions and his opponents. He's not saying bad things about their heritage (like has been done to him), he's not chasing down Giuliani's Italian mafia relatives or making personal judgments about McCain. Attacking is not the same as differentiating. Instead of running an attack add of your own on Romney, try to hold to conservative positions and not liberal tactics. br> -- Rob Andrus br> Provo, Utah /p>

Mr. Klein accuses Mr. Romney of "going negative" and of "taking the low road." Let us be clear. Presidential candidates have been "going negative" almost since the time of George Washington's accession to that office. Any time that any candidate says that he would be better on any particular issue than the other guy, by definition, he is going negative. Furthermore, Mr. Klein fails to demonstrate, in his screed, where Mr. Romney has been wrong regarding the stances of his opponents. Some would say that is not "going negative," it is just presenting the facts regarding one's opponent.

Mr. Klein also accuses Mr. Romney of being disingenuous, the old flip flopper charge. Now there is some validity to that argument. I would also avow that Mr. Klein is being disingenuous and even devious in not prefacing his article with a disclaimer stating his endorsement of one of Mr. Romney's challengers. Surely Mr. Klein does not expect that we have completely forgotten his previous articles in this venue within the last few weeks. Now I don't know if Mr. Klein is officially on the payroll of his preferred candidate, but that hardly seems to be a significant difference to me. It depends on what the definition of "is" is, Mr. Klein, and you are doing a masterfully Clintonesque job of splitting the "disingenuous" hair. Have you been taking lessons from the Bubba Bill school of political discourse?

p>Nothing I have said above should be taken as any endorsement of Mr. Romney. I don't know who I will support, and I have serious questions about all three front runners, and most of the others also. That said, Mr. Klein's article would be more honest if it were identified as the campaign ad that it is. br> -- Ken Shreve br> New Hampshire /p>

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