Republicans are seizing on President Obama’s flip-flop on so-called Super PACS, calling it his Kerry moment. “He was against them before he was for them,” said a GOP official.
Late Monday, the campaign said that since Republican front-runner Mitt Romney was getting help from outside Super PACs, raising the possibility that the GOP could spend $1 billion in the election, it decided to back a Super PAC , Priorities USA, started by a former Obama deputy spokesman Bill Burton.
Republicans predictably sneered, but that only brought shrugs from the Democrats who argued that by not aiding their own Super PAC, they were ignoring big buckets of money by playing under stricter rules. Tweeted Democratic Party Communication’s Director Brad Woodhouse after seeing emails of GOP outrage, Republicans officials “have their panties in a wad ‘cuz we’re going to play by the rules they insisted on and support.”
