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RON PAUL HEADS TO IOWA! WOW, this LEDE: “Revolutionary Republican, courageous conservative congressman and Constitution defending former presidential candidate, Ron Paul is coming to Iowa November 14th, to support Kent Sorenson’s state Senate seat bid.” The Iowa Republican might as well have just taken a picture of itself covered in the dust jacket of an Andy Warhol biography and texted it to Ron Paul. Gross gross. [The Iowa Republican via Glenn Thrush]
Iowa, home of the Whopper
You know, while its probably too early to declare another war on the Paultards, a few skirmishing actions might be in order, just to keep us in fighting fettle.
Dr. Congressman former presidential candidate Ron Paul knows a thing or two about Corn. And pigs.
Iowa got me thinking about the primary process. You know what we need? For all the primaries to be on the exact same day. Then the campaign process would be substantially shorter and backwaters like Iowa and New Hampshire can go back to having an appropriate amount of attention paid to them.
Ooh, he’s going to share wisdom nuggets. Do those come in ingots and coin form too?
So he’s planning on raising a shitload of money from his cult on the way to another near-last-place finish again, I see. Doesn’t seem like a good use of time to me, but his massive ego probably needs feeding.
Making an appearance for an Iowa STATE SENATE candidate after running for the presidency is like doing an ad for a local used car lot after you failed to win an Oscar. A bit of a come-down, to say the least.
And won’t it be a hoot if Kent Sorenson loses.
Terry: What, you don’t think we made a good choice last year handing Hilz a crushing defeat?
the problem child: Nope, just chicken.
Flying saucer balloons all over the news and Ron Paul in Iowa? Coincidence? I think not!
Was Ken Sorenson a member of the revolutionary Paul Congress?
http://paulcongress.com/index2.html
Time to lay waste to the fields of Iowa once again with gold money bombs dropped from a menacing zeppelin.
the problem child: Only Ranch or BBQ.
JohnnyMac:
I think the opinions of voters in Iowa and New Hampshire are no more and no less important than that of voters in other states. Except Ohio, Texas, and Florida. Those folks are wacky.
Terry: Seriously, don’t mess with our deliciously American recipe for sausage. It’s pretty yummy the way it is.
It takes a tough man to make tender love to Ron Paul. Keep fucking that chicken.
OT, but that Dylan Rattigan guy on CNBC makes Keith Olberman seem humble and self-effacing. When will NPR stop torturing everyone with whine-a-thons? Maybe if some ultra-wealthy benefactor gave them $200M…what? Joan Kroc did what?
Oh.
Tangentially OT, but the banner ad for Dave Funk… sweet Jeebus. I haven’t seen that much makeup on a man since Mrs. Doubtfire.
After corn and pigs, Iowa’s 3rd largest industry is the selection of American presidents. Once every 4 years, millions of dollars of ad revenue and thousands of out-of-state visitors (you can’t really say tourists. It ain’t Miami Beach) flood into the state, and they have to tip well or they get their names published in the papers.
Those wiley Iowa business folk have apparently figured out how to stretch this bonanza out over the 4 year interim. It’s as if Hallmark convinced everybody that EVERY day is Mother’s day.
My sources tell me which part of the Constitution he will be defending. The guns part, duhh. And, of course,the counting the blacks as 3/5ths, but only for census purposes. Don’t tell Ron about how that was repealed–his head would explode.
“Constitution-defending” and no comma after candidate.
Geez, “Iowan Republican.” Where’d you get your journalist training, the AOL school of word-butchery?
Giving Iowa an outsized say in who gets to be prez is like Kamchatka deciding who’s the next former KGB agent to be despot of Russia. Makes about as much sense, too.
hobospacejunkie: (Warning: little snark here). I’ve spent a fair bit of time in Iowa. Nice folks (my in laws, etc. Sensible people. Not nuts). Actually, having Iowa take an early crack at the process works better for me than, say, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona….West Virginia, Wyoming. Do you really want Indiana to have first go? California (god help us)? New Hampshire (nope).
However, if we restricted to the IA caucuses to congressional districts 1 through 4 only, we’d all be a lot better off.
gurukalehuru: Or, you know, like singing Elvis covers after you’re forced out of the Governorship?
What you disrespectful cretins fail to understand is that Dr. Paul is the smartest person in the world because the federal reserve is evil and neocons like Obama want to take away our guns and liberties and, most importantly, our gold. GOLD! WE MUST ALL PROTECT OUR GOLD! Those kids are after me Lucky Charms!
Ron Paul is the new Pat Paulsen.
@DangerousLiberal: I mean no offense to Iowa. Let me amend that. No one state should have as much say over the choosing of a prez candidate as Iowa, or New Hampshire. Obvious solution is to have multiple state primaries from the beginning.
hobospacejunkie: No, no. The obvious solution is to let Alaska and Hawaii have the first primaries, then march ‘em across the country from west to east. We finish up with Florida and Maine, then everybody gets one whole month to talk about where the hell we went so wrong.
thefrontpage: Without any of the humor, ’sock it to me’ and good looks.
Terry: I think it was suggested in the last cycle that we should just have 4 regional primaries over the space of 8-12 weeks. Change the order of which region goes first with each cycle. I thought that sounded like an extremely sensible idea that had a snowballs chance in Hell of ever happening.
Spike: I have often thought that Auric Goldfinger would have been a paultard if he had just been a bit more racist and anti-homosexual.
hobospacejunkie: I’m cool with that. Just as long as the Iowa 5th is left out.
Ron Paul should run in 2012. And Palin should run as head of her new party. Can’t have too many GOP alternatives.
Since the consensus is future Paul threads MAY BE ALL CAPS I’m wondering if small letters would look good too…
Does html sup make superscripts: Are these letters small and raised?
Does html sub make subscripts: Are these letters small and lowered?
We want to look our best in Paul threads. Peggy would say one should.
shadowMark: No, sup doesn’t make letters small and raised. Super might, but this is my last test.