Today Team Rudy attacked Fred’s record on immigration. Jim Geraghty notes some sloppy opposition research from the Giuliani campaign. Here’s Geraghty:
Last week, Giuliani unloaded some pre-debate opposition research on Thompson’s record on tort reform. I thought Giuliani put this information to good use during the debate – it allowed him to pivot from his own deviations from the movement conservative agenda to Thompson’s weaknesses – but, overall, a candidate’s opposition to federal tort reform is not going to make or break his candidacy. And now we have an unpersuasive Giuliani attack on Thompson’s immigration record. This suggests a few things: Team Rudy may be overconfident in its ability to dismiss challenges from other candidates. (Neither McCain nor Thompson is Romney.) Or Team Rudy may be worrying that the laid-back gentleman from Lawrenceburg is seriously threatening the hard-chargin’ former mayor’s southern support. Or both things may be true.
