Oh-eight (R): Fred's coming to Iowa
Posted: Thursday, August 09, 2007 9:07 AM by Mark Murray
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Republicans, 2008
Just two days before the Ames straw poll… A University of Iowa poll shows Romney with a substantial lead in the Hawkeye State over Giuliani, 26.9% to 11.3%. Fred Thompson was third with 6.5%. One-third of those questioned said they were undecided.
The Quad Cities Times reports that the Iowa GOP is doing everything it can to safeguard the integrity of the vote this Saturday. Among the things it will do to stop ballot stuffing: check for Iowa IDs. Still, "questions are being raised, particularly by supporters of Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul, about the party’s plan to use optical-scan voting machines manufactured by Diebold Election Systems. Voting machines manufactured by the company have come under fire after California researchers found they might be vulnerable to computer hackers. Although some of Paul’s most vocal supporters are taking to radio call-in shows and online blogs to cry fraud, his campaign is not sounding alarm bells.”
ROMNEY: In an interview with
USA Today, Romney came out in support of the Iraq troop surge. "Romney would clearly prefer to talk about other things, including his support of lower taxes and his hard line on immigration. In recent days, he has been calling on the federal government to deny some funding for ‘sanctuary cities’ that decline to aggressively enforce immigration laws. He said New York was ‘the poster child for sanctuary cities’ when rival Rudy Giuliani was mayor, a designation Giuliani dismissed as inaccurate."
The Boston Globe’s Vennochi says Romney has an “honesty problem” on abortion. “He engaged in a full-body tango with Massachusetts voters, doing everything he could to convince them he was pro-choice. He used his mother and another dead relative as props in a cold political calculation. But, this "pro-life Mormon," to quote Murphy, was "faking it" big time. That's more than a mistake. That's dishonest.”
The AP reports Romney “defended his five sons' decision not to enlist in the military, saying they're showing their support for the country by ‘helping me get elected.’”
By the way, want to know how repressed Romney's memory of his days as Massachusetts governor is now? He couldn't correctly answer the question of how many counties the state has.
F. THOMPSON: The candidate-to-be makes his
first trip to Iowa next Friday, August 17 -- just in time to get a little state fair face time in.
CBN's Brody uncovered a memo from Thompson's '94 Senate campaign, in which the then-Tenn. GOP chair relayed a message to the candidate and his top aide that the Christian Coalition had some serious reservations about Thompson. More drip, drip that Thompson hasn't always been a conservative?
