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Brownback drops hammer on Romney

In light of the Kansas City National Right to Life convention, Sam Brownback has dropped the hammer on Mitt Romney. It is a fun read, but Brownback’s politcal director has a fun line:

“One would think that Mitt Romney is in training for an Olympic gold medal in verbal gymnastics, as his various political contortions on abortion are stunning in their timing and flexibility,” Gillespie added. "The best advice for Mitt Romney comes from Mark Twain: ‘Always tell the truth. That way, you don’t have to remember what you said.’”

Full text, including a great timeline of Romney’s multiple positions on abortion, after the jump
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By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago

Strategy

Logic of the McCain/Romney attack

Patrick Ruffini argues that it doesn’t make sense for John McCain to be attacking Mitt Romney. His argument boils down to the fact that if the punch lands, it still leaves Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson standing and, probably, helps Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago

Kevin Madden making stuff up

I was going to steer clear of the current John McCain-Mitt Romney fight over Romney’s abortion record. But then Kevin Madden said something silly: "Governor Romney is firmly pro–life and can rely on his record of having protected the sanctity Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago

West Virginia moves up

I don’t know how I missed this last week, but I thought it interesting. West Virginia wants to move up. According to The Hill, they will be picking most of their delegates at a Feb. 5th convention. And the timing Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago

NH slaps IA

You have to love this headline from the Concord Monitor: Frontloaded primary takes stuffing out of Iowa’s straw poll And the lede: So far, the New Hampshire primary doesn’t seem to be suffering from the front-loading of the presidential nominating Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago

Brownback lays into Romney

Brownback really whacks him: Mitt Romney is a good man. But there are many differences between us on the issues. I am for a three state political solution in Iraq. He is not. I am pro-life. He is not. I Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago

Should we be unified?

Phil Klein at the American Spectator writes: In my view the best case you can make for Thomson is that he’s the only Republican candidate capable of unifying the party. We know the Democrats will be unified. Whatever happens during Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago

Romney continues to back away from Iraq

From the AP: Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Thursday rejected the Bush administration’s vision of a decades-long U.S. troop presence in Iraq akin to South Korea and suggested a need for public benchmarks to gauge progress. "Our objective would Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago

Pressing the flesh versus enhancing contact with technology

Justin Hart of MyManMitt makes an argument for why Fred Thompson is going nowhere if he uses the internet. This is, of course, correct, as far as he takes it… which isn’t very far. His position is a straw man. Read more

By Soren Dayton, 19 years ago