Tim Pawlenty
August 15th, 2011
The results of the August 11, 2011 Ames Straw Poll are as follows:Candidate Percentage Michele Bachmann 28.6% Ron Paul 27.7% Tim Pawlenty 13.6%...
August 12th, 2011
American political consultant and pollster Dr. Frank Luntz gives a post Iowa Presidential Debate opinion to Adryana Boyne. He says that he thinks Mitt Romney was very presidential with the best lines, Tim Pawlenty had the...
June 17th, 2011
Post updated Monday, June 20th.Most of the presidential wannabes who have thrown their hats in the ring are sadly lacking in what it takes to get elected if they should win the Republican nomination. ‘Establishment...
June 2nd, 2011
It has taken me a few days to get this post off the ground, but as usual, those few days further enlightened the subject. I want to mention several noted conservatives’ dismissive comments about Palin that I find perplexing...
May 11th, 2011
There were very few tuning into the GOP presidential debate on Fox News May 5th. Advertised as the debate between the second tiers, one came away with the impression that any of those who showed up in Greenville could be...
April 13th, 2011
While other American states and municipalities are scrambling in dealing with a porous border and a federal government that appears to care more for NCAA Brackets and Brazil’s energy development, Texas Republicans again cut...
March 9th, 2011
There are two predictions that I will make and be certain of. The first is that the 2012 elections will be full of surprises. That one is easy. The second is that the nominee for the GOP will not come from any candidates...
January 24th, 2011
(Notes: I am not making any endorsements or will I spend time in this piece to dissect weakness of candidates. There is more than enough time to do this. My purpose is to point out that Republicans have a strong list of...
January 25th, 2010
Living in Iowa, I am at ground zero of American presidential aspirations. Iowa caucus is the first step in the Presidential nomination process and it is the Iowa Caucus that shrinks the presidential field (even though it...
August 13th, 2011
With family for dinner, I DID manage to watch the Republican debate in Iowa Thursday night. Debates always tie hands of candidates trying to distinguish themselves. Of those on the stage, I was partial to Herman Cain, who...
June 24th, 2011
Should Republicans be paying More Attention to Their Candidates Positions on Global Warming?In recent days and weeks, the climate change alarmists, the doomsayers and far left environmentalists have suffered...
June 16th, 2011
The results of a Rasmussen Reports national survey conducted after Monday's GOP Presidential Candidate debate are shown below:Candidate Percentage Mitt Romney 33% Michele Bachmann 19% Herman Cain 10% Newt Gingrich 9%Ron Paul...
May 24th, 2011
There’s a lot to talk about here. Mitch Daniels, whom I thought would enter the race and was going to discuss, bowed out over the weekend, saying he loved his family even more than he loved his country. I thought Daniels...
April 23rd, 2011
We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." - Thomas JeffersonWe have heard so much about the ‘Donald’ that you would think no one else is interested in the president’s ‘job’. Actually...
March 18th, 2011
Thursday, Jedediah Bila published in Human Events, Setting the Palin Record Straight, which was linked many times on Facebook, and I hope is widely read. It’s nice to see a journal of some repute that points to questions of...
February 21st, 2011
First, both internationally and domestically, there is so much agitation in the world today, that we proceed with trepidation to political business as usual; events could at anytime render it relatively trivial. But in fact...
February 19th, 2010
Tim Pawlenty, one of the only Conservatives from Minnesota spoke at the 2010 CPAC event. He reminded us that last year, at CPAC 2009, the pundits were predicting that America was entering an era of 20-30 years of liberalism...