The tiny “housekeeping cottages” my family used to rent at New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee are fishing sheds compared with Mitt Romney’s sprawling, 11,000 acre estate along those shores. There was little to do there, and usually the prospect of a twilight rowboat ride, skippered by my Navy veteran Dad, was all we had to keep the hope of excitement alive during long [...]
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The Iowa Republican Caucus: What You Should Know from an “Insider”
My name is Sonia. I’m a 39-year old mother of four (we have two sons, two daughters), I have an undergraduate degree, three jobs (one of which is my own small business), I volunteer in my community and am a native Iowan. I haven’t lived here my entire life given the time on the East [...]
Predictable Iowa Portends Tough Obama Re-election Road
No matter whether Mitt Romney finishes first, second or third in the Iowa Republican caucuses tonight, he “wins” and becomes what he has been all along–the presumptive GOP nominee. Those Democrats who believe the parade of horribles in GOP debates and endless rounds of television interviews have helped President Barack Obama’s re-election chances are doing [...]
The Politics of Growth
I find it so irritating when pundits declare a candidate “a waffler,” claiming that person lacks a moral compass or stands for nothing if they’ve had the good sense to change their mind about something in the last 30 years. I call this growth and maturity. For me this is a primary criterion for relationships [...]
The Truth About Mormons and Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney is the front runner for the Republican nomination for president in the 2012 elections, by many accounts. That is, if some Christian pastors don’t convince their congregations that it’s unacceptable to vote for a Mormon and persist in perpetuating fictions about the Mormon faith. I, personally, know quite a bit about the Mormon [...]
A Flat Tax? That’s So 1992!
Have you noticed that tax policy is the new new thing for the GOP presidential candidates? Not thoughtful, analytical or well-reasoned tax policy, mind you. But some of the Republican presidential wannabes are embracing the idea of a federal flat tax scheme thanks to Herman Cain and his now infamous “9-9-9″ plan. Sadly, that plan [...]
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