Video: Dick Morris Calls Steve Womack a “liberal” and a “liar”
Dick Morris spoke at Tea Party events across the state today and sets his sites not only on Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln and her primary challenger Bill Halter but a Republican Steve Womack who he said he considers a “RINO” (Republican in Name Only.)
Michael Tilley with The City Wire has a report from the northwest Arkansas events where Morris criticized Womack, who is running in the Third Congressional District primary.
“I would urge them not to vote for Womack because Womack is the only one of them who has not signed the American for Tax Reform pledge of no new taxes,” Morris told the Tolbert Report this afternoon. “This issue really is very clear. Obama has increased spending and increased borrowing so that he can come back and increase taxes. And any Republican that is not 100 percent committed not to raise taxes obviously is going to raise them.”
“Two weeks ago in a public forum Womack said ‘Taxes are on the table,’” continued Morris. “Anyone who says taxes are on the table, I think Republican voters should say taxes are off the table. If it’s wearing horns, it’s a RINO.”
Minutes before my interview with Morris, Womack issued a press release saying he had signed the ATR no tax pledge.
“I have signed the Taxpayers Protection Pledge. There is no better day than today to memorialize my longstanding opposition to tax increases,” said Womack in his release. “Today, April 15, millions of Americans went to the post office to mail in taxes they see as burdensome. I sign this pledge in respect to the American taxpayer.” (Full release on the jump.)
I asked Morris above this development.
“It is conceivable that he has signed the Americans for Tax Reform Pledge and that he saw the light today,” responded Morris. “In which case, I congratulate him and I withdraw my criticism and I withdraw my advise to the voters in the district.”
Saying he did not see Womack listed on the website, Morris said, “If he has taken a no tax position but has not signed the Americans for Tax Reform pledge, then in addition to being a liberal, he is a liar.”
Michael Tilley confirmed with American for Tax Reform that the signed pledge was received from Womack around 4:30 this afternoon. Tilley also spoke with Womack who insisted that he planned to sign the pledge today all along and that this timing had nothing to do with Morris remarks.





