Weaver sought to praise Barbour and defend Cahill’s ad in an email:
Different candidates have different perspectives and strategists don’t always agree with every decision a campaign makes. I can’t blame Tim Cahill for not appreciating $1 milllion in unfounded personal attacks against him and he has every right to defend himself as he sees fit. My personal opinion is that Haley is a great governor who has been a great leader for the party. He happens to be wrong on this race because Tim Cahill is the more conservative candidate. I am not sure RGA donors want their money supporting liberals like Charlie Baker.
Weaver described himself as “someone who always advocates a broad and big GOP — under a large tent.”
“But even Barnum and Bailey couldn’t find a tent big enough to hold the liberal fiscal and social policies of Baker and Tisei, who are completely out of the mainstream. Most conservative RGA donors would be shocked how liberal,” he wrote of the Republican ticket in Massachusetts.
The spokesman for the RGA, Mike Schrimpf, responded with a scalding email suggesting that Barbour didn’t take kindly to the caricature:
This looks to be a classic case of a consultant and candidate becoming mirrors of each other. Just like Cahill, he tries to be on all sides of an issue. He loves and respects Haley Barbour, but he also condones him being disparaged in a cheesy internet video. Sounds like Cahill endorsing Patrick’s tax increases and then being against them. Now we know why these guys like each other. An opportunist has a 1000 different excuses but only one true character.
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Weaver, meanwhile, responded to the RGA blast by both distancing himself from the ad and rebuking Schrimpf.
“I opposed the ad after I was presented with it after the fact,” he emailed. “But Tim Cahill, the only fiscal conservative in the race, has a right to defend himself. And he has done so obviously effectively or the beltway wonders wouldn’t be acting like scalded apes. This kid at the RGA sounds like he could scare a third grader, but I was working with Haley when he was in diapers to elect Republicans and conservatives. This time the RGA is backing a fiscal ultra liberal and they’re wrong and they know it.”
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