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Perry campaign urges Twitter followers to catalog Romney flip-flops
The Rick Perry campaign is encouraging its Twitter followers to highlight position changes by Republican front-runner Mitt Romney using the #flipflopmitt hashtag.
"With Mitt Romney finally showing a willingness to flip-flop on his liberal positions, the Perry Truth Team is encouraging Twitter users to suggest other liberal positions Mitt Romney should flip-flop on by using the hashtag #flipflopmitt," the presidential campaign said in a statement.
The press release highlighted Romney's endorsement of an Ohio ballot measure that limits collective bargaining rights Wednesday, after refusing to endorse the initiative during a campaign stop earlier this week.
Ironically, Perry's social-media efforts mirror those of an unlikely ally — the Democratic National Committee. The DNC has urged its supporters to tag Romney flip-flops with a #whichmitt hashtag, and launched a corresponding website and YouTube channel to highlight instances where Romney has shifted position.
The Obama reelection campaign has also Romney's shifting positions as a potential vulnerability, hammering the former Massachusetts governor for political opportunism.
"Across the political spectrum, people have the same question: If you are willing to change positions on fundamental issues of principle, how can we know what you would do as president? How can we trust who you would be?” said Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod.
Republican strategists have long viewed Romney's shifting positions on issues — a by-product of transitioning from a job as governor of a solidly blue state to the national stage — as an area of weakness. But while Romney was hammered during his 2008 presidential campaign for equivocating, he has largely been able to avoid the narrative this cycle.
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