[Free Vulcan]

He’s right. Being from Iowa and involved heavily in the political scene, I deal with these asshats and their minions all the time, especially during Presidential years. Generally clueless about winning campaigns, really good at spending a bunch of money down a hole. They don’t care, if they lose they go on to some other job. If we lose here, we have to live with it.

[robowombat]

The ‘political consultants’ that parachute in to Iowa or anywhere also hate normal middle class Americans because they are, admittedly lowly members, members of the professional political class which is culturally leftist and coarsely secular and materialistic. These people genuinely hate those who have an operating moral compass and values as they have none other than some sort of supposed commitment to’tolerance and compassion and inclusivity’ and it makes them very nervous to be around anyone who does believe in something. This is true of pretty much the entire political culture and the upper ranks of the bureaucracy, the military and the foreign policy establishment. It is very daunting for normal middle class Americans to keep their heads above the water and keep their children from being corrupted into coarsely sensual little statist materialists. The political operatives don't want conservatives to win and give lousy advice and guidance because both their biases and their ignorance of the local terrain.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I lived in Iowa (Slater, Kelly and the South Side of Des Moines) from 1974 to 2001. Worked on the Haig campaign and for the Polk County GOP.

[DaxtonBrown]

” Being from Iowa and involved heavily in the political scene, I deal with these asshats and their minions all the time, especially during Presidential years. Generally clueless about winning campaigns, really good at spending a bunch of money down a hole. They don’t care, if they lose they go on to some other job. If we lose here, we have to live with it.”

Ditto in Nevada. Good ole boys unwilling to pull the trigger and actually fight.