Romney Hits Huck in Living Rooms

The Governor finished the day with an evening speech at the Olde Main restaurant in Ames, Iowa—the city where he overwhelmingly won the GOP’s August 11 straw poll.

At each stop, Romney gave a slightly different variation of a 15 minute speech that emphasized the threat of radical Islam, lower taxes, free market healthcare, a crackdown on illegal immigration and family stability.

Romney’s son Craig, the young father of the Governor’s grandson Parker Mitt Romney joined him at these events. Standing in Iowan living rooms, Craig lightly bragged how much Parker enjoyed shaking hands at campaign events and how proud he was of his father.

The day before Romney stormed Iowa living rooms, Huckabee gave national media a sneak peek look at a negative ad against Romney that Huckabee claimed was too hard-hitting to run—a campaign trick considered “too clever by half” by many reporters in the room.

Romney responded to the Huckabee’s faux ad at an impromptu press conference held in the basement of a family home in Johnston, Iowa.

“It reminds you a bit of a person who would stand up and say ‘I’m not going to call my opponent any names, but here are the names I would call him if I were going to call him names” Romney said. “What he did yesterday didn’t fool the media and it won’t fool the people of Iowa either.”