Fresh from a week-long vacation, former Massachusetts GOP Gov. Mitt Romney swept through Colorado, South Carolina and Iowa this week, touting measures aimed at keep children safe.
In a speech in Colorado on Wednesday Romney outlined initiatives to protect children against sex crimes. Among his proposals are a “One-Strike, You’re Ours” law for sexual predators, enforcement of obscenity laws, and limits on excessive violence and sexually explicit material in video games.
The campaign released an ad called “Ocean” that is airing in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. In it, Romney discusses his belief that people need to look at the culture that surrounds America’s children and clean up “the ocean in which our children now swim.”
On July 13, Romney wrote a piece for Townhall.com on this same theme. The Washington Post’s The Fix called the new ad Romney’s “most direct appeal yet to social conservatives.”
Also this week, the campaign promoted abstinence education, highlighting his move as governor of spending federal abstinence education funds in Massachusetts for classroom programs. The campaign took aim at Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for recent remarks he made to Planned Parenthood suggesting he supports sex education for kindergartners.
Romney continues to lead other Republican candidates in polls in New Hampshire. This week, a Research 2000 poll for the Concord Monitor showed Romney leading the GOP pack with 27 percent.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Romney’s wife Ann went on a “South Carolina Women for Mitt” bus tour in South Carolina, making stops in Greenville, West Columbia, Charleston, Bluffton and Hilton Head Island.
Romney plans to remain in Iowa on Saturday to hold more town hall forums, called “Ask Mitt Anything.” Sunday morning Romney is scheduled to address the Republican National Hispanic Assembly Convention’s prayer breakfast in Washington, D.C. Later that day, he looks to travel to New Hampshire where he plans to stay until Wednesday and then head back to Iowa at the end of the week.
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