The three Republicans who held the governor's office from 1991 to 2003 have split in the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Former governor William F. Weld is backing Romney, who was Massachusetts governor between 2003 and 2007, while Cellucci is supporting Giuliani, and Swift has endorsed McCain.
Edwards: US is less safe MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Democratic presidential contender John Edwards argued yesterday that President Bush has made the nation less safe and the Republican candidates are trying to become "a bigger, badder George Bush."
Edwards made his remarks one day after he challenged the idea of a global war on terror, calling it an ideological doctrine advanced by the Bush administration that has strained the US military and emboldened terrorists.
Bush told reporters yesterday that Edwards's view was naive.
A short time later, during an appearance in Montgomery, Ala., Edwards answered back: "George Bush has made America less safe and less respected in the world. What we are seeing now in this campaign is John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, and the other Republicans running for president of the United States are trying to be a bigger, badder George Bush. Is that really what America wants over the next four years?"
Edwards, who supports a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq, said he would keep the country safe by going "after terrorists where they are."
"There is an entire new generation of young people in the Islamic world sitting on the fence," he told reporters, and their status as adults "depends on whether America can change this dynamic that George Bush has created that America is a bully, that we are selfish and that we don't care anything about what is happening in other parts of the world."
At least one Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, scoffed at Edwards's comments on the global war on terror.
