Sadly for the world, there is only one of me.
The writer is dead on as far as Pawlenty’s postmortem is concerned. His prescriptions for the party is not. If it were, there would be far more support for Ron Paul. There is not. Using the Straw Poll as a barometer for anything more than Iowan GOP fundraising is silly. By all polling available, Perry and Mittens are the front of the pack. Paul is behind. No one but the dope smoking anti war college kids support him.
Nice try in getting me to agree with the you on the sanity of Paul though. Unfortunately, I would rather sit home than vote for that man.
Where did you get that demographic information?
Up here a lot of old farmers support him, too, not because they smoke dope, but because they remember the Depression, the mess since, and see fiscal policy which has taken us through the equivalent of the Roaring Twenties and to the brink of 1933.
They know what didn't work last time, and are looking for better ideas.
While I don't think Paul would be a good president, at the same time I have taken enough of a look at his ideas for domestic policy and think some of those have merit. A return to Constitutional limitations on the Federal Government would mean a severe downsizing of that institution, and save trillions in Federal expenditures.