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The Spectacle Blog
The Club for Growth has started issuing white papers on the 2012 Republican presidential candidates. So far, the assesments have been mixed. The anti-tax group’s report card on Mitt Romney praises his commitment to spending restraint as governor of Massachusetts, but gives him lower grades on taxes. Romney is dinged for his fee hikes as governor, the temporary nature of his federal tax cut proposals, and inconsistencies on the 2003 Bush tax cuts, among other things.
The Club also hits Romneycare, saying the Massachusetts health care law “has failed to control health care costs, increased the size of government, and by its very nature introduced more government and less freedom into health care markets.”
Tim Pawlenty doesn’t come up all roses either. The Club says Pawlenty “supports free trade, just not all the time.” His record on regulations is described as “deeply troubling,” on spending it is “good and bad.” Even on taxes, the Club says Pawlenty started out stronger than he ended up. Rick Santorum gets generally good marks, except for his Bush-era deviations. And Newt Gingrich looks better in the 1990s than subsequently. Herman Cain might have come out the best, but he also has the thinnest record.
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martin j smith| 6.7.11 @ 3:53PM
It means there is a new ball game and crony capitalism crap and back room dealing, the treating the voter as a barbie doll is over.
The People expect their representatives to do their jobs. That is what is new.
Oh by the way, that So called poll showing Romney ahead of Obama--I would NOT TRUST such a poll. It is MSM manipulation. ( What was it ABC and something else ? --WaPo ? ) --I say put that poll in the garbage bin.
W. James Antle III | 6.7.11 @ 5:18PM
Was ABC News and the Washington Post, yes.
amy| 6.8.11 @ 1:00AM
Pawlenty left Minnesota with the fourth worst projected budget deficit in the country. His record inspires no confidence. We are not serious if we nominate him!
Michael L. Hauschild| 6.7.11 @ 5:35PM
If they did this on potential candidates where is the Palin analysis? If they did this on candidates that had already run last time did they do comparative analysis? If they did this as a grocery list of who the beltway establishment will offer us as alternatives it is not worth the paper it is printed on.
I suspect all three.
Put Palins's film in as a footnote and I will read it.
Wayne | 6.7.11 @ 6:15PM
Sounds like they have ignored Romney's stand on the global warming which would be an economy killer.
Clint| 6.7.11 @ 9:34PM
Interesting.
"Tim Pawlenty was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1992. He was re-elected five times and became majority leader in 1998. He was then elected Governor in 2002 and was re-elected in 2006. Since Pawlenty has never served in Congress, he does not have a rating by the Club for Growth. However, the Cato Institute, a free market think tank, produces a biennial scorecard on the nation’s governors based on their tax and spending policies and actions. Over his two terms, Pawlenty’s scores were:
2010 – “A”
2008 – “B”
2006 – “C”
2004 – “B”
Before that, he was rated by the non-partisan Taxpayers League of Minnesota during his time in the Minnesota Legislature. In 2002, the last year that Pawlenty was in office as a state legislator, he received a 75%. Over the years 1997-2002, his average score was 80% while the average House Republican score over that time period was just over 75%. "
amy| 6.8.11 @ 12:59AM
Pawlenty left Minnesota with the fourth worst projected budget deficit in the country. His record inspires no confidence. We are not serious if we nominate him!