SOTU: Plans to give her own State of the Union Response to a Tea Party Express rally, even though Wisconsin Rep. Jim Ryan is the official Republican speaker (Star Tribune, 1/24).
History: Maintains that skin color didn’t matter in early America at an Iowans for Tax Reform event (TPM, 1/24).
Religious Right: Addressed the “March for Life” Rose Dinner (Politico, 1/24).
Iowa: “Encouraged” by reception at Iowa events (Des Moines Register, 1/22).
Religious Right: Set to attend a meeting of Iowa’s The Family Leader, led by Bob Vander Plaats (RWW, 1/20).
2012: Considering a presidential bid with a campaign based in Georgia (AJC, 1/21).
Religious Right: Set to attend a meeting of Iowa’s The Family Leader, led by Bob Vander Plaats (RWW, 1/20).
2012: Floats potential presidential bid despite 2008 defeat (TPM, 1/25).
Palin: Claims that a Palin candidacy would increase his chance of running (WSJ, 1/21).
Debates: Won’t attend early debates in order to preserve his summer deadline (Politico, 1/24).
2012: Must decide whether to give up media “mini-empire” for a presidential run (LA Times, 1/21).
Texas: Spoke about how Alaska and Texas are both “good beacons of freedom” at a fundraiser for the Lubbock Christian School (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, 1/25).
Media: Dana Milbank proposes a month-long media boycott of covering Palin (WaPo, 1/21).
Book: Releases video advertisement promoting new book, Courage to Stand (TPM, 1/24).
Religious Right: Set to attend a meeting of Iowa’s The Family Leader, led by Bob Vander Plaats (RWW, 1/18).
Religious Right: Addressed the “March for Life” in Washington, DC (Politico, 1/24).
GOP: May be able to unite economic and social conservatives better than Mike Huckabee (Religion Dispatches, 1/21).
South Carolina: Group of South Carolina state legislators launches a “Draft Pence” effort (RWW, 1/20).
Poll: Leads all other rivals in national poll of Republican voters with 24% (Rasmussen Reports, 1/24).
New Hampshire: Wins New Hampshire GOP straw poll (Christian Science Monitor, 1/22).
Health Care: Rove says Romney must respond to criticisms about his health care reform law in Massachusetts (Political Wire, 1/20).
Reproductive Rights: Defends criticism of Obama’s views on choice in an Op-Ed for the National Review (NRO, 1/24).
Iowa: Set to attend a meeting of Iowa’s The Family Leader, led by Bob Vander Plaats (RWW, 1/20).
Religious Right: Uses Obama’s race to attack his stance on abortion-rights, slams gay adoption (RWW, 1/19).
Tea Party: May have trouble with Tea Party voters over his support for ethanol industry subsidies (The Argus Leader, 1/23).
New Hampshire: Thune fundraisers “making calls in New Hampshire on Thune’s behalf” (The Argus Leader, 1/21).
