Tom Pauken

By Fr. James Farfaglia
10/29/2010
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) – Tom Pauken is a Catholic layman who headed a federal agency in the Reagan administration and served as Republican Texas State Chairman in the mid-90s during a time when the Republicans became the majority party in that state. His new book BRINGING AMERICA HOME, How America Lost Her Way and How We Can Find Our Way Back not only explains what happened to our nation in the post-Reagan period of American politics but also lays out a roadmap for how our founding principles can be applied to address the serious problems facing our nation. Continue reading →

Jan Mickelson has been recognized as the leading conservative talk show host in Iowa. Jan and Tom spent an hour on Monday morning talking about getting America back on the right track. Jan has posted the interview as a featured item on his website. You can listen to the archive of the interview here.

For more on Jan Mickelson, the man that the Los Angeles Times called “Iowa’s Last Word on Politics”, check out this profile here.

Watch Tom’s speech to the Heritage Foundation on July 15, 2010.

Watch Tom’s speech before the seventeenth Annual Eagle Forum Collegians Leadership Summit. Link here.

The GOP has been hijacked, according to Tom Pauken. “What passes for conservatism in the post-Reagan era of Republican politics is barely recognizable to many of us who were grassroots activists in the early days of the conservative movement,” he writes in Bringing American Home. As a result, many people are confused about what conservatism really is, “especially after eight years of a Republican administration headed up by George W. Bush.” Continue reading →

By Steve Farrell
August 11, 2010

Talk about self-evident patriotism! In Tom Pauken’s latest, Bringing America Home, here is a writer whose heart and mind unabashedly rings out ‘God! Family! Country!’ from cover to cover. So does his commitment to striking a balance between faith and reason and a roll up your sleeves work ethic as he easily moves from broadside bursts of “We’ve got trouble!” to revelatory reminders of the Providential story and destiny of America and our need to get to work restudying, and yes, reapplying our Judeo-Christian and constitutional heritage of limited government and state rights if winning is what we hope for.

And here’s some cheery news, though Pauken’s resume spells “R-e-p-u-b-l-i-c-a-n” from start to finish — appointments in the Nixon and Reagan Administrations, State Chairman of the Texas Republican Party, current Chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission under Republican Governor Rick Perry — this is not another lame ‘Go Red Go!’ piece of partisan fiction, about how “Life would be so good if it weren’t for them dang Democrats!”

No, not at all. Thank you Mr. Pauken! Bringing America Home, so far as its drawing on decades of personal Republican Party experience go, is more of an insider’s indictment of the leadership of that party and how for three decades it has offered nothing more than a false alternative to the democrats.

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Al Kresta interviews Tom Pauken on his new book, Bringing America Home. Link here.

By Lloyd Grove

The movement to rehabilitate the former president’s image is misguided, former Texas GOP Chair Tom Pauken tells Lloyd Grove. Instead, party faithful should be searching for true conservatives to turn the country around.

George W. Bush’s legacy-burnishing machine is up and running, scrubbing and polishing the 43rd president’s rusted image. The Bush Presidential Center is busily raising money for his library, museum, and think tank, to be built on the campus of Southern Methodist University, not far from George and Laura’s new home in Dallas.

What’s more, the former president’s diehard loyalists—including his chief strategist, Karl Rove, his favorite spinmeister, Karen Hughes, and an army of assorted camp followers—are preparing a last hurrah, for old time’s sake, in advance of the publication of his White House memoirs (and, coincidentally or not, the 2010 midterm elections).

So why is fellow Texan Tom Pauken, who was chairman of the Lone Star State’s Republican Party when Bush was its two-term governor, standing athwart revisionist history, yelling stop?

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Link here to listen to Tom’s interview with Scott Braddock.