"The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results."
Thomas Sowell
"It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so."
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
“You don’t understand the class structure of American society,” said Smetana, “or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.”
— Whittaker Chambers, pg. 616
And So It Begins
Sarah Palin is going to Iowa, the site of the first contest in the race for the 2012 nomination.
From the Des Moines Reister:
Sarah Palin’s scheduled political trip to Iowa this month marks a shift from near silence in the leadoff presidential nominating state to the kind of outreach common among White House prospects.
Palin’s plan to headline the Iowa Republican Party’s annual fall fundraiser on Sept. 17 is solely to help raise money for the state party’s candidates, the former Alaska governor’s aides said.
And one trip to Iowa is a long way from a successful campaign for the state’s 2012 presidential caucuses, still 18 months away, Iowa party insiders said.
But Palin’s recent overtures to Iowa reveal a change in posture that puts her in a position — like other 2012 presidential prospects already laying campaign groundwork in Iowa — to build goodwill and relationships with influential activists, state Republican officials said.
“It does signal an interest in helping Iowans be successful in 2010,” state Republican Party Chairman Matt Strawn said. “Iowa Republicans are going to look favorably on anybody that has come to this state this year to help us win in 2010.”
Sarah Palin, in Iowa in 2008, to headline Iowa GOP event
Palin aides confirmed Tuesday that she plans to be the featured guest at the Iowa GOP’s Reagan Day dinner on Sept. 17. Palin is also planning yet-announced political stops that day, with the state party’s marquee Ronald Reagan dinner that evening.
From the Des Moines Reister:
Sarah Palin’s scheduled political trip to Iowa this month marks a shift from near silence in the leadoff presidential nominating state to the kind of outreach common among White House prospects.
Palin’s plan to headline the Iowa Republican Party’s annual fall fundraiser on Sept. 17 is solely to help raise money for the state party’s candidates, the former Alaska governor’s aides said.
And one trip to Iowa is a long way from a successful campaign for the state’s 2012 presidential caucuses, still 18 months away, Iowa party insiders said.
But Palin’s recent overtures to Iowa reveal a change in posture that puts her in a position — like other 2012 presidential prospects already laying campaign groundwork in Iowa — to build goodwill and relationships with influential activists, state Republican officials said.
“It does signal an interest in helping Iowans be successful in 2010,” state Republican Party Chairman Matt Strawn said. “Iowa Republicans are going to look favorably on anybody that has come to this state this year to help us win in 2010.”
Sarah Palin, in Iowa in 2008, to headline Iowa GOP event
Palin aides confirmed Tuesday that she plans to be the featured guest at the Iowa GOP’s Reagan Day dinner on Sept. 17. Palin is also planning yet-announced political stops that day, with the state party’s marquee Ronald Reagan dinner that evening.
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