April 05, 2007
Hotline After Dark: The Money Trail
The '08ers continued their TV tours in the wake of 1st Quarter fundraising announcements:
Mitt Romney continued his media tour with a stop on "Hannity & Colmes":
Asked about polls that show 50% of people don't know him: "You don't overcome it by trying to change that at a national level. Instead you do well in the early primary states. If you look at people who have run in the past and who were not terribly well known, people like Bill Clinton and, for that matter, John McCain when he ran in 2000. They didn't worry about national name recognition. They worried about doing well in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, Michigan, the early states. And by doing well there, they got very dramatic name recognition, front pages of newspapers and magazines, on everybody's talk shows. And name recognition immediately followed, and they went on to do pretty darn well" (FNC, 4/4).
And Rudy Giuliani was in the "Situation Room":
On his competition: "John McCain is never going to be done. I don't know if I'm going to beat him or he's going to beat me in New Hampshire. But if I do beat him in New Hampshire, I expect to see him in South Carolina and I expect to see him in California and I expect to see him every place else."
On his abortion position: "I'm in the same position now that I was 12 years ago, when I ran for mayor, or as mayor, which is personally opposed to abortion, don't like it, hate it, would advise that woman have an adoption, rather than an abortion. And I will help you find the money for it. But it's your choice. It's an individual right. You get to make that choice. And I don't think society should be putting you in jail for it."
Asked if he supports taxpayer funding for abortions: "If it would deprive someone of a constitutional right, yes. I mean, if that's the status of the law, then I would, yes" (CNN, 4/4). [EMILY GOODIN]
Posted at 07:47 AM
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