Dems release Mitt Romney attack ad

BOSTON, Mass. (WWLP) - The Republican primary is a little over a month away, with former Governor Mitt Romney leading the polls in New Hampshire.  That hasn’t escaped Democrats who are now taking aim at the presidential hopeful.

The Democratic National Committee released a 30-second TV ad and 4-minute web video Monday, labeling him a flip-flopper on issues like health care, the economy and taxes.

“We’ve seen him flip and flop and flip and flop and go back and forth any number of times,” said Rep. Jay Kaufman (D-Lexington).  “He apparently is willing and has the skill to say whatever is appropriate for the moment and for the audience he’s speaking to.”

“Mitt Romney, as he’s running for the presidency once again in 2012, unfortunately, is a candidate without any core,” said Philip Johnston, the former Chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund spokesperson Tricia Wajda presented a blown up copy of Romney’s written support of a woman’s right to choose an abortion in 2002.  Whereas now Romney says he supports a Constitutional amendment stating that life starts at conception.  

“The only rights that he’s interested in protecting is his right to change his mind, to change his script depending on which audience he’s trying to court,” said Wajda.

Republicans fired back saying the ad shows how Democrats are “deathly afraid” of Romney.  House Minority Leader Bradley Jones (R-North Reading) said the former Massachusetts governor has the best appeal and consistently polls well. As for the so-called flip-flopping, Jones said it comes with the change in office.

“I don’t know of any candidate, including the President, that you’re not going to be able to find an issue that somebody has taken a look over time and said well ‘I have a different set of facts, there’s a different set of circumstances’ or quite frankly, the office I’m running for is different.”

The Republican caucuses take place in Iowa on January 3 ^rd, followed by the New Hampshire Republican primary on January 10 ^th.