Anyone who spends their time writing, talking or even thinking about political campaigns likes to have a narrative that’s going somewhere. We want Harry Truman whistlestopping across the nation to pull out the slimmest of victories, or Ronald Reagan quipping “there you go again” and sending Jimmy Carter packing. In that spirit, I’d like to lodge a complaint. If the current [...]
Tim Pawlenty mailed out a glossy mailer in Iowa this week. The mailer gushes (in beautiful color) about his time as governor of Minnesota. “Leadership is about results, not rhetoric,” it says. Mr. Pawlenty must hope that slogan is true when it comes to nominating campaigns. After being essentially four years into a presidential campaign, he is polling at 5%. [...]
As a not so proud member of the No Child Left Behind generation, I have great disdain for the federal government’s increasingly cumbersome role in education. All education statistics taken since its enactment in 2002 reveal its failure. In October 2009, the latest results on the most important nationwide math test — The National Assessment of Educational Progress — showed [...]
CNN is live broadcasting the Republican Presidential Debate from Manchester, NH online at http://live.cnn.com and on television. The speakers are Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney. 10:00 p.m. Romney’s closing remarks – what he has learned from the NH debate and the NH people – are that the economy will be [...]
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