Quick Iowa and Political Posts (121707)
Yesterday, the Thompson campaign followed up on the points it raised last Friday about Unfit Mitt Romney’s abortion record, based on Romney’s appearance yesterday on Meet the Press (link to MTP transcript at BizzyBlog host added by me):
Romney’s Claim: “…every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as a Governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life.”
- Mitt Romney, Meet the Press 12/16/07Fact Check
- Romney’s health care legislation provides taxpayer-funded abortions for a co-pay of just $50. Romney vetoed EIGHT provisions in his health care bill that he deemed objectionable, but he did not veto Planned Parenthoods’ guaranteed position on the Advisory Board or ensure that abortions were covered only in medically necessary situations (as required by MA court ruling). All abortions are covered in the Commonwealth Care program with no medically necessary limitation.
- Romney included in his health care legislation a guarantee that Planned Parenthood would have a representative on his MassHealth Payment Policy Advisory Board. No such provision was included for a pro-life representative .
- Romney forced private Catholic hospitals to provide the morning-after-pill, a position applauded by Democrats and pro-abortions groups.
Related: R.T. Neary — “Please Mitt, at least a mea culpa”
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King-Maker endorsement — Congressman Steve “Kingmaker” King of Iowa has endorsed Thompson. Michelle Malkin is apparently first with excerpts.
Apparently there was belief that Romney would get it (”Team Romney is in the back of the room looking bewildered.”). That’s a big “heh.”
Hugh Hewitt Hackitt, who when I checked yesterday had mentioned Thompson once in roughly his last three days’ posts (and that mention was in an excerpt), in the process ignoring Fred’s “I’m not doing a show of hands” moment, might actually have to type the man’s name. The horror!
Update, 2 PM: Fred reacts.
Update, 2:45 p.m.: King, at least according to this report, kept his endorsement under wraps. His speech appeared to be on the way to endorsing Romney when he mentioned “fire in the belly,” but then veered to Thompson in the final few sentences.
Can’t help but wonder — did that final veer happen because the dam broke? If so, “super-heh.”
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McCain and Hillary got endorsements from the Des Moines Register (story and links to text and vid endorsements here), home of the worst debate moderator ever. McCain was endorsed by Joe Lieberman.
These will probably generate as much “Joementum” for each candidate as Lieberman’s 2004 presidential candidacy.
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UPDATE, 1:40 p.m.: I just heard Hillary Clinton cite the movie “Independence Day” as a model of how we should all join together to face our problems.
A movie. Something not real.
A “Dean Scream” moment?
