Romney To Obama: Please Stop Attacking My Business Record, Taxes [View all]

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Mitt Romney, battered by Democratic attacks over his Bain Capital record and taxes, is calling on President Obama to agree to a truce over his business career.

“Our campaign would be — helped immensely if we had an agreement between both campaigns that we were only going to talk about issues and that attacks based upon — business or family or taxes or things of that nature,” Romney said, according to excerpts of an upcoming interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd released Friday.

Romney said he would prefer the campaigns “only talk about issues,” and claimed that “our ads haven’t gone after the president personally. … We haven’t dredged up the old stuff that people talked about last time around. We haven’t gone after the personal things.”

Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul offered up a broader take on whether Romney was really suggesting that his career at Bain Capital — the crux of his argument that he is better equipped to handle the economy — should be considered off-limits.

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They have to be kidding. Did they not see or hear or condone this:



Romney launches character offensive against Obama

(CBS News) BOSTON - The Romney campaign on Friday launched a character offensive against President Obama and his allies, arguing that a recent ad by a pro-Obama super PAC crosses a line and diminishes the office of the presidency.

The ad from Priorities USA Action, which had not yet run as of Friday, insinuates that presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney was indirectly responsible for a woman's death from cancer. Eric Ferhnstrom, a senior adviser to Romney, accused the Obama campaign of lying to the public about the ad.

"They've gone from what started as petty distortions and untruths to unbelievable exaggerations that diminish the office of the president and insult the American people," Fehrnstrom told reporters during a briefing at Romney's Boston headquarters. "I don't think a world champion limbo dancer could get any lower than the Obama campaign right now."

more:http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57491200-503544/romney-launches-character-offensive-against-obama/