There has been a video circulating around recently that dates from earlier this year in the primaries in which Romney hits McCain for lying about his record, which has caused some confusion, since McCain’s campaign has been issuing so many lies this year that it was a bit more difficult to pin down the proper context for Romney’s remarks.  If I remember correctly, this clip of Romney comes from the immediate aftermath of McCain’s egregious, absolutely shameless lie about Romney’s views on the “surge” and the war in Iraq.  According to McCain, Romney favored “surrender,” which is apparently what everyone who is not on the side of John McCain’s career advancement favors.  As I said back in July, McCain’s dishonest attacks on Obama will go largely unpunished and might even be rewarded with stronger support in the polls and on Election Day, just as he was basically rewarded in the Florida primary for lying about Romney’s record.  In the primaries, he was their preferred Republican candidate and no one cared about Romney anyway.  The difference this time seems to be that journalists and pundits will not forgive McCain as they forgave him for his obvious lying back then because he is no longer their preferred candidate, but it may be that the public expects such strong pro-Obama bias from the media that all criticisms will simply bounce off of him.  However, it probably wouldn’t matter even if the public trusted the media to be neutral: dishonesty has worked for McCain before, and it doesn’t seem to be hurting him now, which is why he keeps doing it.

One way that you could know that the video was old, though, was that it was Romney saying this.  Ever since he suspended his campaign at CPAC in February (to prevent “surrender” to terrorists that would surely come with a Democratic victory, he told everyone), Romney has been a good team player and worked loyally as a McCain surrogate.  Romney may be a fraud, but he is not one to break ranks.