Ronald Kessler declares in his Aug. 4 Newsmax column that “Ahead of next week’s Iowa caucuses, Republican presidential nominee Tim Pawlenty’s camp is worried about his pardon of a convicted sex offender who was later arrested again for criminal sexual conduct with his own daughter.”
Why does Kessler care about this? Because he’s the PR agent for Mitt Romney. Kessler shilled for Romney during the 2008 Republican presidential campaign — rather uncomfortably so — and after Romney was eliminated, he dutifully switched his allegiance to the candidate he had been bashing on Romney’s behalf, John McCain.
Kessler spent the first few months of this year trying to pave the way for a Donald Trump candidacy, but when that failed, Kessler’s allegiance returned to Romney, and he remains firmly in that camp.
Kessler’s hit piece on Pawlenty is really nothing more than surrogate oppo research for Romney’s campaign.