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IOWA:

Idiots
Out
Walking
Around

I used to live there, believe me, I know it to be true!

10 posted on 08/30/2015 5:59:16 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))

To: usconservative

IOWANS: These were the same people who launched Barack Hussein Obama into the presidential race in 2008.

11 posted on 08/30/2015 6:01:40 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))

To: usconservative

Did you live in Des Moines or east of there?

12 posted on 08/30/2015 6:02:20 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)

To: usconservative

Fortunately, Trump is even more popular in the rest of the country than he is in Iowa.

13 posted on 08/30/2015 6:02:59 PM PDT by I Hired Craig Livingstone (DT16. Deal with it.)

To: usconservative

Are you saying that it is idiots who like Trump?

14 posted on 08/30/2015 6:03:00 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)

To: usconservative

I spent a good amount of time in Iowa - mostly in the Cedar Rapids area. I found the people there to be rather steady in their habits. Perhaps simple in their ways but certainly not stupid.

When in the military I spent a month there in 1982 at Rockwell Collins learning some crypto gear. The Marines put me up at the Longbranch Best Western. It was high living for me back in the day. I used to go down to the bar and get Michelob on draft. That was the fancy beer back then if you didn't want to drink Bud or Miller. It was a lot like that movie Fargo, in how the people talked and acted.

There was a big shopping mall across the street. This was the height of mall culture, when MTV was just getting started and "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" was a recent movie. I remember walking through that mall and seeing all the high school girls with the big hair and the guys with their letter varsity jackets. "Down Under" by Men At Work was the big song during that time. It seemed like everywhere I went, that song was coming through the speakers. Also John Cougar. A lot of John Cougar.

I have fond memories of that month in Iowa. I would also go there three times afterwards as my wife had relatives that lived in Marion, which is just outside Cedar Rapids.

The fact that Trump is doing well there bodes well. I mean if anybody would reject a city slicker businessman like Trump, it would be Iowa. But they seem to love him out there.

20 posted on 08/30/2015 6:10:09 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (We gave GOP the majority to take care of business and they let us down. Time for Trump/Cruz)

To: usconservative

I Owe the World an Apology

84 posted on 08/30/2015 7:58:14 PM PDT by Phinneous (Who reads the religion thread at 7am?)

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