Huckabee Fights Back Against Romney

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Huckabee: Romney's Attacks on Rivals 'Desperate'

Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) addresses recent attack ads by Mitt Romney, calling them "incredibly desperate, and frankly dishonest."

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"I don't want to come to caucus night and people are saying, 'He never answered the charges,' " Huckabee told reporters.

Huckabee and Romney drew most of the attention in Iowa, but former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani also campaigned in the state, where he trails far behind.

So infrequent have been Giuliani's appearances here that when he stopped in Indianola on Saturday, one person asked, "Rudy, why didn't you spend time in Iowa?"

"We've spent a lot of time in Iowa," Giuliani responded. "We've spent a lot of time in New Hampshire. We've spent a lot of time in California and Florida and South Carolina and Michigan."

Earlier, during a visit to his headquarters in the Des Moines suburb of Clive, Giuliani responded to criticism from McCain, who claimed that the former mayor's performance dealing with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, did not constitute national security experience.

"I've run the third- or fourth-largest government in the country, considered the second-toughest job in America, and I ran it during times of crisis," he said.

Staff writer Dan Balz in Indianola, Iowa, contributed to this report.