From the Washington Post:
What would Abraham Lincoln have thought of the man in a rabbit suit wearing a sign that said, "Varmints Against Mitt"?
It was the annual Lincoln Day Dinner here in Iowa, and the show was back in town. Varmint Man greeted Republican activists as the party's major presidential candidates showed up to speak from the same lectern for the first time.
Most of them had similar messages -- they would be tough on terrorism, they would fight defeatist Democrats, they would keep taxes low, they would tackle illegal immigration. Many rushed to extol Ronald Reagan while barely mentioning President Bush. They kept reassuring each other that it is good to be Republican despite recent polls and political travails.
But with nine of them trying to distinguish themselves from the pack here in this season's opening GOP presidential cattle call, the candidates looked for small ways and large to attract attention.
In a related story, the Washington Times writes about the problems of front-loading the primaries. Also see this Wall Street Journal op-ed by Fred Thompson about tax cuts.
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