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Here's what is happening: Republican voters, the folks Romney and Giuliani need to win over, want their party's nominee to be as tough as nails in the war on terrorism. And they don't want him to bash President George W. Bush on Iraq, because, well, that's what Democrats do. But--and this is where things get tricky--they don't exactly want him to support Bush's Iraq policy either. Recent polls suggest that while most Republicans oppose a complete withdrawal from Iraq, they'd prefer a smaller U.S. presence, ensconced in bases far from Iraq...
Next time you listen to Mitt Romney�or Rudy Giuliani, the two announced Republican front runners for 2008, try playing this game: count how many times they use some variation of Sept. 11, terrorism or jihad. Then count how many times they utter the word Iraq. When Romney gave a foreign policy speech at Yeshiva University in April, the score was 19 to 3. In an address at the Citadel in May, Giuliani's score...
Luckily for Giuliani and Romney, most Republicans don't associate them with the surge, as they do John McCain. Most either don't know what the GOP front runners think or think they agree with them and support a Baker-Hamilton-style drawdown. In a July Hotline poll, only 17% of Republicans knew that Giuliani opposes any troop withdrawal from Iraq, and only 12% knew that Romney did. For both men, that's good news. They don't want to be identified with a policy that's unpopular even among Republicans, let alone the rest of America. But they...
Romney and Giuliani's solution: when asked about Iraq, they talk about terrorism. Writing in Foreign Affairs, Romney argued that "whether or not the current 'surge' in troop levels in Iraq succeeds," the U.S. faces "challenges that go far beyond any single nation or conflict." Giuliani told Fox News's Sean Hannity, "Whether Iraq turns out successfully ... we're still going to be at war." Romney and Giuliani also bash the Democrats as defeatists who don't recognize the jihadist threat and who want us to leave Iraq with our tail between our legs. In this way, they emphasize their...
Maria Comella, a spokeswoman for former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has appeared often on Letterman's show, Late Night With Conan O'Brien and other shows, says the talk-show circuit allows the candidate a chance to open up to an audience outside of the bounds of a news interview. "I think it speaks for itself when the mayor is allowed to show voters a more humorous side," Comella said. "It happens on the campaign trail, but it isn't necessarily seen by millions of people at one time... More than anything it allows voters...