Well, yes, but...
The current version of the Iowa GOP is indeed run by a bunch of shiny-pants "business" types in Des Moines/Polk County (Cedar Rapids used to count for more than it does now) who are in it to benefit themselves and their cronies. It used to be the ag bloc that they kissed up to, but the insurance and banking types superceded it to some extent, and now even the teachers unions get to pull on the reins. This group of GOP bigs will pay lip service to traditional values, but they are not traditionalists in anything other than looking out for their own interests.
However...
There is that nominally "fundamentalist" or "evangelical" component to the Iowa GOP that perennially attempts to grab the wheel of the ship away from the cronies, the result being a zig-zag heading smack into an iceberg; they - and the state in general - always seem to go right into the freezing water, while the GOP-e always seem to be in the first-class lifeboats (relatively dry and with a flask of brandy... unfazed and ready for the next cycle).
When I was still a Republican who thought I mattered, I would get upset at the parade of GOP-e approved empty suits that would inspire absolutely NOBODY to vote, let alone be enthusiastic. Conversely, I would cringe when the grassroots - which they are, by-and-large - Christian fundamentalists would go scorched-earth to maneuver someone grotesquely unqualified for office into a race largely on the basis of their religious testimony (or some such thing).
So one can watch with dismay the "we must put forward this guy because he's part of the club" people square off with "we must put forward this guy because he's part of the church" people. Oh, boy! Another choice between some political functionary representing the good-old-boys club or a born-again dark horse who can't describe the difference between arson and incest.* I think the vast majority of voters are long past being tired of it, but the local GOP organizations seem to lack their previous ability (or possibly desire) to tell either faction to get its respective crap together. The various media "kingmakers" in the Iowa market are often less than helpful in that they tend to poison both wells so that nobody wants to drink from either one as the primary process moves forward.
About the Iowa primary (okay, caucus), I have already said my piece repeatedly, so the short suggestion for the GOP is for Iowa to have its first-in-nation status pulled immediately, to be restored only when Iowa is rid of Tom Miller and Tom Harkin, and not necessarily in that order. The Ames straw poll? It's an amateurish PR fest cum agricultural fair in a land of low-hanging fruit, and largely a joke to anyone who isn't jockeying for a position on a campaign staff or making a buck off it by catering, so if the Iowa GOP wants to hold a talent show in the school gym, let them do so... and then ignore the hell out of the winner. Please.
Mr. niteowl77
*Hat tip to Mark Twain.
I agree with MOST of what you say here(minus the Christian “Fundamentalist” “Thing”. Iowa have NOT been right since that BASTARD Hughes was Governer/Senator. Ever wonder WHY Iowa now has 4 Congessional Disticts?