2016 Iowa caucus watch: Rick Santorum and Rand Paul visiting soon

Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum will be the main speaker at a pro-life lunch event in Des Moines on April 15, WHO-TV’s Dave Price reported today. Price notes that Santorum “is the national spokesman for the John Paul II Medical Research Institute in Iowa City led by Kim Lehman, the former Republican National Committeewoman and Santorum 2012 backer.” Lehman’s group advocates for adult stem cell research only, rather than fetal stem cell research.

In other 2016 presidential contender news, Republican Party of Iowa Chair A.J. Spiker announced today that U.S. Senator Rand Paul will headline the Iowa GOP’s Lincoln Day Dinner in Cedar Rapids on May 10. Paul just won the straw poll at the annual CPAC conference, a major event for conservative activists from around the country.

Supporters of Ron Paul’s presidential campaign are strongly represented on the Iowa GOP’s State Central Committee and in the party’s four district committees. However, attempts by “Paulinistas” to win leadership posts in the Scott County and Polk County Republican Party recently failed.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has agreed to headline the Polk County Republican Party’s spring fundraiser on May 23.

Any comments related to the next presidential campaign are welcome in this thread. I had to laugh when U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell hinted with a joke that Hillary Clinton is too old to run for president. She will celebrate her 68th birthday in 2016. Mitt Romney just turned 66. Senator John McCain was 71 when he became the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2008.

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  • This is another reason why it is important to regulate home schooling

    This is why it is particularly important that Senate not give a blank check to Dominionists to not educate their female children, with completely unregulated home schooling.  They are Santorum and Ron Paul’s base.  Since only 12,000 Iowans voted in the republican caucuses it doesn’t take very many of them moving in here to elect extremist candidates.  Why make the state a haven for sexists, John Birchers, and Neo-Confederates.  The man that made the racist, sexist comments at Cpac was a Rick Santorum, and Dominionist activists.  It is very dangerous for our country that these extremists are relevant candidates in our political process.

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