TheIowaRepublican.com has learned that David Young, Sen. Chuck Grassley’s Chief of Staff, has submitted his resignation and plans to officially enter Iowa’s U.S. Senate race sometime in June. Currently no Republican has officially entered the race, but former U.S. District Attorney Matt Whitaker and State Senator Joni Ernst are expected to do so shortly. Young [...]
Greetings, Happy St. Patrick’s Day and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. A well balanced Irishman has a chip on both shoulders. I’ve got liberal bloggers, Democrat operatives, state legislators, RPI leadership, Paulistinians and Westboro Republicans complaining about this weekly column … Translation: I must be doing something right … The Dems are whining that I sometimes [...]
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD – The only set of rules that Senator Rand Paul cares about is the U.S. Constitution. Maybe that’s why the senator from Kentucky disregarded CPAC’s unofficial dress code and took to the stage in a pair of jeans and cowboy boots. Senator Paul also complained that he was only given 13 minutes [...]
Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner, an hour earlier than usual. I stand with any politician who works to ban daylight savings time. Believe me. I need that extra hour of beauty sleep. There’s no doubt that Rand Paul vaulted himself to the front of the pack for the 2016 Iowa Caucus with his brilliant [...]
As Hillary Clinton pounded on the table in front of her and raised her voice, it was easy to visualize her husband, 16 years earlier, showing the same feigned indignation when he claimed, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” Just like Bill Clinton lied to the American people about his Oval Office [...]
By Craig Robinson The consensus following the 2012 elections was that Mitt Romney ran a technically flawed campaign and was a poor messenger for the GOP, and thus he lost what many thought was a winnable race. The Romney campaign was also blamed for other Republican shortcomings on the ballot, especially a number of U.S. [...]
By Craig Robinson When Iowa Governor Terry Branstad told the Wall Street Journal that the Ames Straw Poll had “outlived its usefulness,” he essentially ended the storied event. Republican Party of Iowa leaders were quick to disagree with Branstad’s assessment and pledged to continue the tradition, but what they don’t understand is that Branstad has [...]