While Team Perry is working aggressively to depict Mitt Romney as a flip-flopper, the Romney campaign is striking back by arguing that the Perry campaign is presenting false cases by editing Romney’s statements misleadingly.

“It is becoming increasingly clear that Rick Perry has problems with the truth,” said Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul in a statement. “Each of Rick Perry’s attacks has been proven false. Instead of dreaming up phony attacks on Mitt Romney, Governor Perry should explain why he encourages illegal immigration, why he wants to dismantle Social Security, and why he accepted billions of dollars of stimulus to cover up his massive budget deficit.”

The statement was in an e-mail headlined, “PERRY’S PROBLEM WITH THE TRUTH.” The e-mail shared news reports that called the Perry ads and comments misleading, including this Washington Post piece calling Perry’s ad ‘Romney’s Race to the Flop’ “misleading campaign advertising.” The campaign also cited this Politifact report, which argues that Romney did not change his position on whether the nation should adopt Romneycare between the hardback and paperback editions of his book, as Perry suggested that he had during the debate last week. Also up for criticism was the Perry team’s decision to only use a partial quote of Romney’s in the ad about the stimulus released today.

When I e-mailed the Perry campaign to see if they had any comment about the Romney campaign’s allegations, Perry spokesman Mark Miner responded, “The next time Mitt Romney writes a book he owes it to the public to disclose that his policies are subject to revisions due to changes in the political climate.”

“Last week Mitt Romney stressed that he is ‘very careful’ about his choice of words in his book because they could come back to haunt him,” Miner added. “The truth is he wrote in his book that the stimulus would accelerate the start of the economy. Then he flip-flopped and called it a failure.”