Branstad Advises Candidates Not to Skip Straw Poll
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 2nd, 2010 5:42 am by HL
Branstad Advises Candidates Not to Skip Straw Poll
Iowa Gov.-elect Terry Branstad (R) warned prospective 2012 presidential candidates to not skip next summer’s Republican Party Straw Poll if they want his support in the state’s caucuses, WHO-TV reports.
Said Branstad: “I think I’ve demonstrated how you can win elections in Iowa and you do it by going to all 99 counties and meeting with a lot of people and articulate a vision and plan for where you want to lead the state, or in this case, the country… Not participating is certainly not a very good strategy. So I would certainly come and participate.”
Quote of the Day
“The Reagan comparisons aren’t helping. You might as well compare yourself to Abraham Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt.”
— GOP consultant Ed Rollins, writing for CNN, offering advice to Sarah Palin while noting “I knew Ronald Reagan, and you’re no Ronald Reagan.”
Tea Party Caucus Takes $1 Billion in Earmarks
According to The Hotline, the 52 members of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus, “which pledges to cut spending and reduce the size of government, requested a total of 764 earmarks valued at $1,049,783,150 during Fiscal Year 2010, the last year for which records are available.”
Republicans Make Case for Arms Treaty
Five former Secretaries of State who served under Republican presidents — Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger and Colin Powell — take to the Washington Post to urge the Senate to ratify the New START treaty signed by President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Though President Obama declared it his top priority in the lame duck session, Republican senators have insisted they will not vote on it this year.
