PHILADELPHIA – Presidential campaign debaters in each major party know who they consider the front-runner for the other side’s nomination, and they are not subtle about identifying those candidates to beat. You can tell by their attacks.
In Tuesday night’s Democratic rumble at Philadelphia’s Drexel University, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney were the only Republican hopefuls targeted by the opposition party’s contenders. And in the most recent GOP debate, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s name came up 29 times — while no other Democrat merited a single mention.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, was in cross-hairs of Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday. The two have been sparring across party lines for a while, and Obama brought up Romney’s name several times during the debate, mainly to portray him as a flip-flopper on major issues. Toward the end, when asked what he would wear for Halloween, Obama said a two-faced Romney mask would be really scary.
Giuliani got a roasting from Delaware Sen. Joe Biden that drew the biggest laugh of the night. Referring to the former New York mayor’s relentless boasting about his civic leadership after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Biden said, “There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11.”
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