Feb 09 2007
Romney pulling Idaho’s GOP
With the latest news that Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig is becoming one of the two Senate “liaisons” (Utah Senator Bob Bennett is the other) for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, you get the sense that most of Idaho’s top-tier Republicans are headed into the Romney camp.
We’ve thought that likely for a while. Locally, Romney has been talked up more than any of the other contenders. And there’s the Utah connection (through Romney’s work on the Olympics several years back) and as a member of the LDS church, to which something like a third of Idahoans also belong. His personal style is probable more appealing, too, than that of his two leading competitors, John McCain (whose sometimes a “maverick,” sometimes not manner may not sit well) and Rudy Giuliani (who among other things may simply be too New York for Idaho tastes).
Not that all Idaho Republicans will necessarily fall into line. We’d not be surprised if Representative Bill Sali signed on with the longshot campaign of Tom Tancredo; that association runs deep into the early part of Sali’s campaign last year, if not earlier. But in the main, for now, Romney seems to have the main Idaho track.
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Get your facts straight Randy. Tom Tancredo supported Vasquez NOT Bill Sali.
Surprised NRA board member Larry Craig can overlook Romney’s endorsement of the Brady Bill and the federal Assault Weapons Ban.
See, for example, Romney’s 2002 gubernatorial campaign web site pledge:
“On gun control, Mitt Romney supports the strict enforcement of gun laws.
http://web.archive.org/web/20021218005104/www.romneyhealey.com/issues/
Social conservatives, including and perhaps especially LDS folks, will be shocked once Romney’s lengthy record of supporting Roe v. Wade, legal abortion on demand, “gays in the military,” opposing the Boy Scouts policy banning homosexuals, and being endorsed in past campaigns by pro-abortion and homosexual activist groups is fully exposed.
For just the tip of the iceberg, watch Mitt debate Ted Kennedy in 1994:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI
Read LDS investigative journalist David Bresnahan’s piece in 2002: http://www.888webtoday.com/bresnahan6.html
And for the real political junkies, read the lengthy and meticulously sourced “The Romney Deception” at http://www.MassResistance.org