Gabriel Gomez losing his cool on tape.
In the Massachusetts Senate race, Republican Gabriel Gomez is apparently trying to ratchet down the appearance of his total desperation. He's planning to
hit his opponent Ed Markey with a typical, boring Republican attack.
At an afternoon event in Mattapan, Gomez will argue that Markey’s voting record during 37 years in Congress, including 271 votes in favor of higher taxes, has harmed small businesses. According to his campaign, Gomez will argue for “real tax reform” and a lower corporate tax rate.
"I can understand why Ed Markey thinks the answer to everything is higher taxes and more spending. He’s never had a real job in the real world," Gomez will argue, according to excerpts provided by his campaign. "He is an out of touch, career Washington politician who has never had to make a payroll or balance a budget."
That does potentially leave Gomez open for more scrutiny of his own
failures in the "real" world of business, but it is a step back from the
crazy attacks of last week. That's when Gomez called Markey "pond scum" and repeated the wholly debunked claim that a Markey ad compared Gomez to Osama bin Laden. One
Republican consultant
called the rant an "undisciplined move," and advised Gomez to try to "control your message and stay on message."
So this is Gomez's campaign apparently being taken over by the professionals and being put back on message: the same old, tired Republican message. But, hey, that doesn't mean that the thin-skinned Gomez will stay there, so there's every hope that he'll go unhinged again to liven things up.
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