Oh-eight (R): Tough day for Rudy?
Posted: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:04 AM by Mark Murray
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BROWNBACK:
He was in
Iowa yesterday, where he drew 35 at one stop and talked up his partition plan for Iraq. Brownback also called Romney yesterday to apologize for his campaign staffer’s email criticizing the Mormon Church, the
AP says. Romney accepted his rival’s apology, saying “‘I told him that was not a big matter to me. If I can’t stand the heat I shouldn’t be in the kitchen.’”
GIULIANI:
CNBC's Kudlow yesterday asked Giuliani an interesting (perhaps leading?) question regarding his campaign staff. He asked whether any of his Giuliani Partners' employees were working for the campaign. Giuliani, perhaps knowing where Kudlow was trying to go, said there were some employees "volunteering" time to the campaign.
NBC political analyst Charlie Cook writes in his CongressDaily column about the significant decline in Giuliani's national poll standing. "The downward slope in his support levels look even sharper than his ascent had been earlier.”
Newsday: "Giuliani's membership on an elite Iraq study panel came to an abrupt end last spring after he failed to show up for a single official meeting of the group, causing the panel's top Republican to give him a stark choice: either attend the meetings or quit, several sources said. Giuliani left the Iraq Study Group last May after just two months, walking away from a chance to make up for his lack of foreign policy credentials on the top issue in the 2008 race, the Iraq war. ... Giuliani failed to show up for a pair of two-day sessions that occurred during his tenure, the sources said - and both times, they conflicted with paid public appearances shown on his recent financial disclosure. Giuliani quit the group during his busiest stretch in 2006, when he gave 20 speeches in a single month that brought in $1.7 million."
You don’t bring me flowers … any … mooorreee. “I accept the distance created by Giuliani. I understand it, but inside, it's killing me. It's like dying a slow death, watching him have to answer for my mistakes,” Kerik said “in a dark, F-bomb-infused interview in the August edition of Best Life magazine,” according to the New York Post.
MCCAIN: The Arizona senator sat down with the Boston Globe yesterday. He expressed optimism on getting an immigration bill passed, but he's clearly lamenting the treatment he's getting. "McCain, who acknowledges that his outspoken support for overhauling immigration laws is complicating his presidential campaign, relayed a story about attending a recent fund-raiser where protesters were standing outside holding signs that declared: ‘McCain -- traitor.’ ‘I'm a pretty tough guy, and I'm not asking for any sympathy,’ said McCain… But, he added, ‘you see something like that and you think, “Wow, what would make these women . . . think I'm a traitor?”’”
The New York Post says McCain “is in the doghouse on his home turf over immigration reform and is no longer a lock to carry Arizona in the Republican presidential primary, the state's GOP leader said yesterday. ‘It's a fight to the end. I don't think it's a given that McCain will win [Arizona],’ state GOP chairman Randy Pullen told The Post during a New York visit.
