CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — With his once-strong leads evaporated in Iowa and fragile in New Hampshire, Republican Mitt Romney faces a dual threat as the first voting nears - Mike Huckabee on the right in Iowa and Rudy Giuliani on the left in the Northeast.
The former Massachusetts governor is responding by assailing Huckabee's record on immigration and taxes while equating Giuliani with New York's Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Romney said Friday that Huckabee was guilty of "raising taxes time and again. He raised sales taxes, gasoline taxes, grocery taxes, even taxes on nursing home beds." Romney also noted anew that the former governor of Arkansas supported giving in-state tuition breaks to illegal aliens.
Turning to Giuliani, the former New York mayor, Romney said, "It would be very difficult for our party to win the White House if our nominee was so similar to Hillary Clinton on abortion, on same-sex civil unions, on guns, on sanctuary cities and on a record of ethical lapses - and I'm referring to the Bernie Kerik matter."
For more information see today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Subscribers can read the story here on ArkansasOnline.