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Mitt Romney responds to judicial nomination questions, and checks in from the campaign trail. Monday, November 26, 2007 at 8:41 PM HH: Joined now by Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts. Governor, welcome back, hope you had a great Thanksgiving.   MR: It was a great Thanksgiving. A little touch football and a lot of turkey.   HH: Excellent. Now Governor, a lot of ground to cover. There's a controversy about Judge Tuttman, one of your appointees. Can you tell us how you came to appoint her, and your reaction to her decision to release the man who went out and murdered two young, wonderful people in Washington State?  MR: Yeah, as a matter of fact, I've appointed some sixty judges. And in each case, I wanted to find people who would be law and order judges and follow the law. This judge had served 17 years as a prosecutor, putting bad people away, and so I had every reason to believe that the judge would be a law and order judge. And ultimat...

Today, Romney for President launched its newest television ad, "Take Charge."    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpBqg6sKYB0   The ad highlights Governor Romney's record of enforcing our immigration laws and opposing efforts to increase the benefits for illegal immigration.  As President, Governor Romney will work to secure our border, reform our immigration system and fight sanctuary policies.    The ad will begin airing as part of the campaign's rotation today in Iowa and New Hampshire.  Script and viewing links are below.    Script For "Take Charge" (TV:30):   ANNOUNCER:  "Illegal immigration – we need smart, tough solutions, not just talk.   "What will it take to fix it?  Technology, new ideas, guts, values – Mitt Romney.   "He said no to driver's licenses for illegals; no to in-state tuition; fought for English in the classroom.   "The only candidate with a...

The False Conservative By Robert D. Novak Monday, November 26, 2007; A15 Who would respond to criticism from the Club for Growth by calling the conservative, free-market campaign organization the "Club for Greed"? That sounds like Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich or John Edwards , all Democrats preaching the class struggle. In fact, the rejoinder comes from Mike Huckabee , who has broken out of the pack of second-tier Republican presidential candidates to become a serious contender -- definitely in Iowa and perhaps nationally. Huckabee is campaigning as a conservative, but serious Republicans know that he is a high-tax, protectionist advocate of big government and a strong hand in the Oval Office directing the lives of Americans. Until now, they did not bother to expose the former governor of Arkansas as a false conservative because he seemed an underfunded, unknown nuisance candidate. Now that he has pulled even with Mitt Romney for the Iowa caucuses and might m...

Last night, Howard Nemerov at the Media Research Council's NewsBusters blog reviewed Governor Romney's record on violent crime and found that "the overall [violent] rate dropped 7.8% from 484.9 in 2002 to 447.0 in 2006."  He concludes, "No matter the comparison––total incidents or rates per 100,000 population––Giuliani was wrong to state that Massachusetts saw a violent crime increase while Romney was governor."   http://newsbusters.org/blogs/howard-nemerov/2007/11/25/who-s-tougher-crime-romney-or-giuliani   And this morning, in an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Mayor Giuliani distorted Governor Romney's record again.  While Mayor Giuliani has apparently recognized his earlier error and dropped any reference to overall violent crime, Mayor Giuliani did claim that "aggravated assault … went up while he was governor."    RUDY GIULIANI: Boston Herald had a big piece on this about two months ago; crime, murder, aggravated assau...