The Note's Sneak Peek

June 14, 2007— -- Give the guy credit for showing up.

He was described (at one time) by one of his own former advisers as having been "a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly" in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but while John McCain spends Friday collecting political chits and raising coin in Texas, Georgia and Alabama, and while Rudy Giuliani takes the two tablets bearing his 12 Commitments to Portland, Ore., Mitt Romney joins Sam Brownback at the National Right to Life Convention in Kansas City.LINK

Also bear in mind that McCain and Giuliani will not be joining Romney (and several other Republican '08ers) in Des Moines at a June 30 presidential candidates' forum being held by the Iowa Christian Alliance in conjunction with Iowans for Tax Relief.

And/but:

When Romney shows up in the City of Fountains/Heart of the Nation for his 10:30 am ET remarks, he may get asked about the latest story by ABC News' Rick Klein and Jake Tapper. LINK

". . . just two months after he switched his position on abortion," write the ABC News duo, "Romney nominated a Democrat who ran for the state Legislature as a "pro-choice" candidate to a perch on a state district court."

As for the '08er waiting in the wings, attendees at the Right to Life Convention will not get to see Fred Thompson in person. But they will get a chance to hear his basso profundo voice Thursday evening in a pre-recorded video greeting, reports ABC News' Christine Byun.

When Romney gets done addressing the Right to Life Convention on Friday, he heads to Iowa for appearances in Oelwein, Waverly, and Waterloo.

Fred Thompson's Friday schedule includes a 10:45 am ET speech to the Missouri Bankers Association in Osage Lake, Mo., -- an event which has been on the books since November and is closed press, per the terms of Thompson's speaking contract.