By Jim Brown, OneNewsNow.com
Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, and John McCain took part in what former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee called a “demolition derby” during Sunday night’s GOP debate.
Former Senator Fred Thompson (R-Tennessee) blasted frontrunner Rudy Giuliani for supporting taxpayer funding of abortions, gun control, and sanctuary cities for illegal aliens, while the former New York mayor attacked Thompson for blocking tort reform while in the Senate. Meantime, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney took aim at his rivals by stating, “We’re not going to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House by acting like Hillary Clinton.”
Mike Allen, the chief political correspondent for Politico.com, notes the debate got really personal. “Senator John McCain, of all people, really making very personal comments about Governor Romney, saying that he ‘managed for profit’ and saying that he ‘fooled voters about his record,’ but of course where they really got personal and where they really got their laugh lines was with the ninth candidate on the stage, who is Hillary Clinton,” says Allen.
According to Allen, The Wall Street Journal’s blog stated that Clinton was mentioned 34 times in Sunday’s debate and that “no other Democrat was mentioned at all — not one Obama, and not one Edwards.” The Politico.com correspondent also points out that Huckabee’s stock continues to rise. “He has always performed well in these debates. One person told me that if a debate coach were to score the debate just on forensic skills, that he [Huckabee] would have won all the early debates certainly. And he is quite a crowd pleaser,” Allen says of the former Arkansas governor.
In a speech Saturday at the Values Voters Summit, Governor Huckabee said, “It’s important that a person doesn’t have more positions on issues than Elvis had waist sizes.” Afterwards, Huckabee was asked if he was taking a swipe at Mitt Romney; to which he replied no, that he was merely stressing that consistency is needed in a leader.
(Source: OneNewsNow.com)
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