Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Same Party, Different Style

Laura Meckler and Elizabeth Holmes present both sides of a stark choice for Iowa Republicans in this morning's Wall Street Journal.

When I think about the contrast, the following example from the article summarizes the GOP choices in a nutshell:
Last week in Waterloo, Iowa, Mr. Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, talked about the challenge of overhauling the tax system this way: "In the South, we say if you can't fix it with duct tape and WD-40 it can't be fixed."

A week earlier, Mr. Romney showed a PowerPoint presentation charting the budget deficit. "See how big it gets?" he said, pointing to a line tracking entitlement spending. "This line is the historical average of how much money the federal government takes away from taxpayers."

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