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Iowa Mud

August 09, 2007 9:15 AM

As Saturday's GOP straw poll vote approaches,  the Iowa attacks are getting intense. 

With former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., having taken a pass on the event (which is really kind of a bogus event), the 2nd and 3rd tier candidates are competing for momentum...and they are pulling out all the stops...and the mud.... as this invaluable piece by Slate's John Dickerson describes (LINK)

As we've covered before in this blog (LINK), Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas,  is accusing former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee of supporting anti-Catholic bigotry after a supporter (and local pastor) wrote an email saying he preferred an evangelical such as Huckabee.

Both have now accused the other of not being "Christian" enough. .....

At the "Iowa Values Not for Sale" website (LINK)  fomer Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney  is charged by a conservative activist with buying votes  -- with a list of Iowa consultants on the Romney payroll. ....

In push phone calls Brownback has taken on Romney for having been pro-choice....and he's also taken on Rep. Tom Tancredo , R-Colo. ,  for having "accepted tens of thousands of dollars from the founder of a Planned Parenthood network." (That would be Dr. John Tanton, a founder of the Northern Michigan Planned Parenthood Association, who is on the board of directors of the Federation for American Immigration Reform  - hence his support for Tancredo, a leader of the conservative movement against illegal immigration). ...

Tancredo has put out a web video demanding that Brownback apologize for the push phone calls (LINK) -- "We do expect more from people who at least call themselves Christians." Tancredo says. 

Plus, of course, Romney attacked Giuliani yesterday on the subject of illegal immigration, which we covered on World News (DOT COM STORY HERE)....

And this is just the stuff we know about! 

If you're heading to Ames, bring your waders.

-- jpt

August 9, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (4)

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Big buisiness Mitt, vote for Corporate Romney.
No different than Bushes corporate America.

Posted by: JB | Aug 14, 2007 3:52:46 PM

I hope that all the candidates can put aside their squabbling and focus on real issues such as Global Poverty. The candidates fall short if they are spending their time convincing the public that the other candidates are bad, instead of how they themselves can help solve big issues of today.

Posted by: Erica | Aug 9, 2007 2:03:04 PM

I'm gratified to see all of the Repub candidates seriously discussing the important issues of our day, such as whether Gov. Huckabee is a bigot, if Sen. Brownback is a Christian, that Gov. Romney is buying votes, that Rep. Tancredo is pro-choice, and that Mayor Giuliani supports immigrant amnesty. I can rest more soundly at night knowing that these "great" minds are hard at work on the major problems we all face.

But to put things in their proper perspective, isn't this the same group of candidates who, several weeks ago, overwhelmingly rejected supporting the theory of evolution and voiced their support for creationism? It would seem that Iowa is teaching them one of the precepts of the theory of evolution that they don't believe in: survival of the fittest.

Posted by: chuck | Aug 9, 2007 10:13:01 AM

awwww...what ever happened to turning the other cheek? What would Jesus do?

Posted by: cordelia525 | Aug 9, 2007 9:59:54 AM

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