Odds & Ends
--The conservative Red
State blog site has
launched a page devoted exclusively to attacking freshman Democrats in
Congress, in hopes of defeating them in 2008. New England
being full of such newbies (including -- congratulations! -- newly named freshman class president Paul Hodes), this should be worth keeping an eye on.
--The New York Sun
column of former Phoenix writer Seth Gitell is always worth
reading, and his latest points to a latent anti-war minority within the
Republican Party, who are waiting and hoping for
Senator Chuck Hagel to enter the Presidential race. (Hagel told CNN's Wolf Blitzer yesterday his decision is coming soon.) If the GOP field contains
no war opponents, these folks, and their right-leaning independent brethren,
could end up voting in the Democratic primaries instead. That could be an
interesting dynamic.
--Even as I stubbornly refuse to believe that he’s really
going to run, Rudy Giuliani continues acting unmistakenly like a Presidential
candidate. Today, the Union Leader’s John DiStaso reports that the former Mayor
has compiled his New Hampshire senior staff, which includes David Tille as
state political director and Jeff Semprini -- son of departing NH GOP chair
Wayne Semprini -- as regional field director and college outreach director (for
those of you at Dartmouth and UNH wishing to get involved with the campaign).
Meanwhile out in Iowa,
Giuliani scored possibly the best get in the state with former Iowa Governor
Jim Nussle. Nussle has reportedly joined the Giuliani team -- a bit of a slap
to Mitt Romney, who poured $1.2 million of Republican Governors Association
funds into Nussle’s losing campaign.
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