Republican Senator & ‘08 hopeful Sam Brownback received boos for a football analogy that insulted fans in Wisconsin.

Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel left the possibility of running for president as an independent along with NY City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wide open on Face the Nation yesterday.

One thing the article didn’t pontificate on is the possibility that if Hagel leaves the party officially the Republicans will be one more vote shy of a majority in the Senate. The prospects thus far don’t look good for Republicans wanting to take back that body in 2008 and one more seat lost won’t make it any easier for them.

I am behind on my Sunday talk show viewing but John McCain was on Meet the Press today for the full hour & you can download the program from their Web site or by going to iTunes & searching the music store for Meet the Press.

As noted Senator John McCain has been to Google & so has Senator Hillary Clinton. Now Gov. Bill Richardson will join them tomorrow at 3:00 Pacific time for a town hall meeting with Google Employees. Google has been very good about putting these out on the Web so as soon as I have it I will upload to this post.

Video Now Available.

(To hopefully become a weekly column on here where I look back on the week and see who gained & who lost. Just have to remember each week to actually do it!)

Most of the attention this week went to Rudy Giuliani who has just been getting hammered for his stances on abortion, illegal immigration etc. Giuliani had an appearance this morning on FOX news (interviewed by Chris Wallace) where he was grilled over his stances and on past decisions he made while mayor of NYC. The transcript is now available.

Giuliani decided to come out this week with his true feelings on abortion after months of what many saw as “trying to have it both ways” on the issue. Giuliani admitted his own beliefs are different then those of Republican voters and repeated his message that national security trumps almost everything else. Sad to say Giuliani was one of the big losers this week.

It is nice to see the former mayor finally owning up to his abortion views and accepting that Republican primary voters might not go his way because of it. With that said, why didn’t he just do this from the start? Giuliani may not have run a national campaign like this but he has people around him who have, not realizing this fact was one of the biggest blunders thus far (and that is keeping McCain’s continued problems in mind) and I wouldn’t be surprised if it hurts him in the long run.

People don’t want to be lied too. You can argue whether or not Giuliani was being deceitful or clever but either way he tried to be something he wasn’t and it backfired.

There was, however, another candidate facing some hard luck this week and that was Senator Barack Obama who faced a bevy of criticm & some big gaffees.

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Hello everyone.
Starting today I am going to open up a post each morning that will connect to the sites news database and pull out all of the days headlines. Throughout each day I add news items & comment as they come in so make sure to check back with the post to see what is happening in the election world.

It is Friday which means its time to recap what the columnists have been saying about the elections this past week. This week the big talk of the town was Rudy Giuliani’s abortion stance.

- Rich Lowry sums up the conservative viewpoint that has now lead Rudy Giuliani to begin “clarifying” his abortion views. ”

- Pat Buchanan also writes about the Giuliani abortion issue and doesn’t write favorably toward Giuliani or his position.

“Rudy’s pro-choice, pro-Scalia stance seems intellectually incoherent and politically inexplicable. He loses part of the pro-life vote and all the pro-choice vote? This is smart politics?”

- Richard Cohen looks inside Giuliani’s conflicting views.

- George Will writes about the Republican strategy to take back the House in ‘08.

- E.J. Dionee Jr. writes about the “Democrats Foreign Policy Primary”

- Howard Fineman sees a possible third-party movement afoot.

Bill Richardson’s new TV spot. There are actually two of them in there.

You can tell the campaign what you thought of the ads while you are at it.

According to a news flash on Drudge Mike Wallace asked the republican candidate if he and his wife broke the strict Mormon rule of no pre-marital sex. Romney said “no” they did not according to the report. The interview will run on ‘60 Minutes this sunday.

I have always believed that advocates of abstinence only education and “abstinence pledges” should be forced to talk about how they managed to abstain and be open to public inquires about their own behavior. So though the question was out of left field, I like it. It should be asked of President Bush & others as well.