economic royalists in the Republican Party deal with Huck

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<p>On 12/5 I said the following “It will be interesting to see how the economic royalists in the Republican Party try to deal with Huck. They are split among themselves and as such don’t have the control of the party they are use to having.”</p>

<p>Below we are beginning to see how the economic royalists in the Republican Party are going to deal with Huck</p>

<p>From the Huffington Post </p>

<p>“His shot at the Republican presidential nomination in jeopardy, Mitt Romney will begin running a TV ad against Iowa front-runner Mike Huckabee on illegal immigration starting Tuesday while weighing how much negative campaigning he can add to the methodical plan he’s followed all year.
The ad says the former governors have a lot in common _ but not on illegal immigration, an important issue in Iowa, which will lead off nomination voting with its caucuses on Jan. 3.
“Mitt Romney stood up, and vetoed in-state tuition for illegal aliens, opposed driver’s licenses for illegals,” the ad says. “Mike Huckabee? Supported in-state tuition benefits for illegal immigrants. Huckabee even supported taxpayer-funded college scholarships for illegal aliens.”
“On immigration, the choice matters,” the ad ends.
With Huckabee surging in Iowa _ and showing strength nationally as well _ Romney offers positive as well as negative words on his rival.
“Two former governors. Two good family men. Both pro-life. Both support a constitutional amendment protecting traditional marriage,” the ad says _ then it focuses on what it says are stark differences on illegal immigration.”</p>

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<p>[Romney</a> to Run Ad Against Huckabee - Politics on The Huffington Post](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost)</p>

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<p>THE NOTE: Romney Picks Fight with Huckabee
As Romney Takes on Huckabee, Giuliani Cant be Happier
By RICK KLEIN with MIKE CHESNEY
Dec. 11, 2007 </p>

<p>Somewhere, Rudy Giuliani is smiling. </p>

<p>No, it’s not that Tim Russert has asked him another question about his business interests. And it’s not that crippling winter storms are disrupting his rivals’ travel plans in Iowa (the state Giuliani would still rather wasn’t on the early-voting map). It’s not even that the Yankees are alive in the Johan Santana sweepstakes. </p>

<p>It’s that Mitt Romney has become the first presidential candidate to cross the negative-ad threshold – and he did it not by taking on Giuliani, the national frontrunner, but by blasting Mike Huckabee. </p>

<p>Forget the kindling strategy, the fund-raising records, the teams of seasoned advisers and activists, the straw poll victory, even The Speech. It comes down to this for Romney, R-Mass.: He cannot lose Iowa to Huckabee. </p>

<p>“Romney is suddenly running scared as Huckabee has overtaken him in several polls of Iowa caucus-goers,” Michael Shear writes in The Washington Post. “The decision to go negative on television is fraught with peril. . . . But Romney may have no choice.” </p>

<p>Surely Romney advisers figured the battle by now would be between him and Giuliani, or maybe him and Fred Thompson, or even John McCain. But by engaging Huckabee, R-Ark., directly on immigration, Romney is indicating that he will live or die by the early-state strategy he’s pursued for the better part of a year. </p>

<p>“The elevated rhetoric – including the Romney campaign’s mass e-mailing Monday of an anti-Huckabee Web column – reflects a growing sense of urgency within its headquarters, where the game plan all year has been predicated on bowling over rivals with victories in lead-voting Iowa and New Hampshire,” the AP’s Glen Johnson and Liz Sidoti report. </p>

<p>Romney’s new ad goes out of its way to praise Huckabee, which “seems to suggest the Romney campaign is wary of a frontal assault in Iowa,” ABC’s John Berman reports. The ad is accurate. But the takeaway sentences – that Huckabee “supported in-state tuition benefits for illegal immigrants,” and “even supported taxpayer-funded scholarships for illegal aliens,” aren’t playing nice</p>

<p>Read more: [THE</a> NOTE: Romney Picks Fight with Huckabee](<a href=“http://www.abcnews.go.com/print?id=3105288]THE”>The Note)</p>