Despite admitting that his immigration stance was a major factor contributing to his declining polling numbers last spring, John McCain is attacking Mitt Romney on that very issue in a mailer being sent out to New Hampshire residents.

In a piece titled, “Why is Mitt Romney attacking John McCain? To hide another flip,” the Arizona Senator features a number of Romney immigration quotes through the years which he says shows “totally inconsistent policy positions.”

Among the quotes he uses in a section called “Mitt’s Mixed Message on Immigration,” is a March 2007 quote of him saying “I don’t believe we’re going to round up the 12 or 20 million people and deport them,” juxtaposed with a May 2007 statement, “I am going to tell them to go home.” (See more of mailer after jump)

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Concord, NH – Mitt Romney lays into his opponents’ economic records in his latest direct mail piece hitting New Hampshire homes this week. Taxes are a HOT issue in the “live free or die” state and the latest pamphlet, obtained by Fox News Tuesday, Romney takes direct aim at his rivals in one of the most pointed missives he has sent out to NH voters so far.

He calls John McCain “big-government, big-tax, big-bureaucracy,” labels Rudy Giuliani “higher taxes and budget-busting spending,” and notes that Mike Huckabee “supported numerous tax increases,” in a glossy pamphlet titled “Taxpayers must take a hard look at the candidates for president.” It adds that Romney has the “experience, vision and values to defend the American taxpayer.”

The mail also makes note that Romney is the “FIRST major Republican candidate to pledge to oppose any attempt to raise taxes on Americans,” a very significant issue for New Hampshire voters. McCain and Giuliani both refuse to take “pledges” and Huckabee signed the pledge after Romney. (See full pamphlet after jump)

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