Trunkline 2012 – Today’s Highlights

A roundup of today’s tidbits from the campaign trail;

• Mitch Daniels keeps sleeping around
• MittRomney’s telling Good Morning America “I’m not going to apologize for the rights of states to craft plans on a bipartisan basis to help their people,” could be a strong strategy
• Romney ally takes lead role in New Hampshire G.O.P.
• Ron Paul pushes for more WikiLeaks on the Federal Reserve
• Fundraising will soon become one of Tim Pawlenty’s greatest challenges
• Year end financial reports for the PACs of potential Republican presidential candidates are out
• Rick Santorumtells New Hampshire voters that President Obama and his Administration is all about “transforming America into a Western European socialist republic”
• The Republican Jewish Coalition sends Haley Barbour to Israel for 5 days
• John Thunepreempts liberal greenhouse gas policies with “Defending America’s Affordable Energy and Jobs Act.”
• Huntsman didn’t think that the Obama stimulus package was big enough
• What does Asia, Henry Cabot Lodge and Jon Huntsman have in common? Here’s a clue.President Obama has probably had the same conversation heard below, with his aides, that LBJ did when a position opened up in his diplomatic corps.

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