Posts by Douglas Burns
Ron Paul dismisses third party run, woos Iowa GOP with libertarian positions
Ron Paul, who is holding at 12 percent in recent Iowa polls, told Iowans this weekend that government is the biggest threat to citizens.
Bachmann decries Obama, shuts out local press in Iowa stop
Rep. Michele Bachmann took her presidential campaign to Iowa over the holiday weekend, using a stop in Carroll to bash President Obama over “shovel-ready” stimulus projects and praising the tea party movement. But, despite trying to convey that she’d be more accessible and less choreographed than Obama, she didn’t field any questions from the audience and refused to take questions from local media, a distinction that puts her alone among all candidates of either party in the last six presidential election cycles.
Bachmann, King co-opt abortion rights message to attack health reform
Co-opting the argument advocates of legal abortion have used for decades, two leading congressional conservatives — Minnesota’s Michele Bachmann and Iowa’s Steve King — said Saturday health-care reform is nothing short of a federal intrusion into the bodies of Americans, or at least decisions about them.
