Latest Romney Ad Hones in on Immigration

Republican presidential hopeful, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney talks with reporters after speaking at a gathering of potential supporters, Friday, July 27, 2007, in Adel, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (Charlie Neibergall - AP)

Scrambling to explain, the Colorado lawmaker's campaign said it was just a spelling error.

Bay Buchanan, Tancredo's national chairwoman, said Tuesday she meant supporters would get a tour of the capital city _ spelled with an 'a' _ which could also include a "public tour" of the Capitol building _ spelled with an 'o' _ in which Tancredo would go along and point out some highlights.

"He's not offering them anything any American doesn't have access to," she said. "The difference is that Tom will be joining them. There are public tours of the U.S. Capitol."

The winners would also visit some of Tancredo's favorite places in Washington, such as several war memorials, and have dinner with him a restaurant, Buchanan said.

"The intent was to spend an afternoon in the nation's capital with Tom Tancredo going to some of the places he is familiar with and enjoys and then having dinner with him," she said. "I did intend it to mean the nation's capital."

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ Republican presidential hopeful Sam Brownback said Tuesday that if the United States pulls out of Iraq too quickly, soldiers will have to return to "clean up an even bigger mess."

"Some people think we can withdraw our troops. But I would remind them of the consequences of failure in Iraq," the Kansas senator said in remarks prepared for delivery on Tuesday night in Des Moines. "Iraq would become a safe haven for al-Qaida. It would become a failed state and risk a regional war. It would descend into genocidal chaos."

Brownback said the U.S. can win the war, but it will require a political solution _ not just a military solution.

In the afternoon, Brownback visited a gun range in Ames, where he fired three guns, including an AR-15 assault rifle, the civilian version of the M-16. Three shots hit just outside the bull's-eye. Another gun he borrowed gave a kickback after it was fired, eliciting a large chuckle from Brownback.

He said in recent years he hasn't hunted much but has hosted a pheasant hunt on occasion in his home state.

"You have a Second Amendment, it is a right to bear arms, and those should be stood by, and those should be honored as a right the individual has," Brownback said.