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Romney 'Speaks For Republicans'

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 13, 2007

SPARKS, Nev. - Republican Mitt Romney targeted presidential rival Rudy Giuliani on Friday, arguing that his own real-world experience and socially conservative values represent the 'Republican wing of the Republican Party.'

The former Massachusetts governor, who espoused moderate views in his 1994 bid to unseat Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy, said that when Republicans act like Democrats, the nation loses.

'I believe conservatives across the nation, and particularly in states where I have been able to take my message, like Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina and Michigan and Florida and Nevada, that conservatives that have heard me time and again recognize that I do speak for the Republican wing of the Republican Party,' Romney said.

In 2004, presidential candidate Howard Dean often told his party's faithful that he represented the 'Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.'

Romney assailed Giuliani for challenging President Clinton's line-item veto authority, a spending-limitation power the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in 1998.

The Associated Press

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