Tim Pawlenty's Advice

Over the summer I saw Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty speak. I think he gave some good advice about how to communicate and how to win, advice that can be applied to elections and many different issues.

Governor Pawlenty said that the way that Republicans can get Democrats and Independents to vote for the Republican party is to talk about choices, talk about liberty and freedom, and to talk about all the ways that the ideals and policies of the Republican Party benefit the working man in our society. This sort of rhetoric is the same sort of rhetoric that our founding fathers used, and that President Reagan used, and it is the sort of rhetoric that conservative Republican candidates for offices around the country can use successfully.

Another important strategy for Republicans to use is to point out that what Democrats offer is everything for free, but nothing is really free in this world, and that what the Democrats are offering comes with staggering and surprising costs. Expose these costs, expose the costs of these Democrats programs, and don't argue why they are bad policies or what they won't accomplish, but talk about what they will cost in society and give voters an educated choice- your conservative policies and their costs, and the Democrats liberal policies and their costs.

One last piece of advice from Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty was to focus on improving the quality of life by focusing on how to provide good paying jobs for people. The most important thing to people is to have a good job that pays well. It is not to save the globe from the threat of global warming, it is not to make sure everyone in society has top-notch health care, and it is not even to fight terror- those are all important things, but the most important thing to people is to have a good job that pays well.

Hopefully Republicans can continue to use these ideas in campaigns to successfully continue winning elections.