Former Western Iowa Congressman Jim Ross Lightfoot says GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin makes an authentic rural connection.
Former Iowa Congressman Jim Ross Lightfoot tells Iowa Independent that Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama both won on the lilability factor.
A word we heard bantered about was ‘likability,’” Lightfoot said. “Huckabee and Obama both win on that factor. They are the kind of people that can be liked by people on both sides.”
Lighfoot, who represented [...]
Former U.S. Rep. Jim Ross Lightfoot, a conservative western Iowa Republican during his service, says an immigration reform compromise now being debated on Capitol Hill could rile his party’s base — and cost support for Republicans involved in the deal — if it is largely viewed as granting amnesty to illegals.
“I think any candidate that [...]