Do Iowa republicans realize the rest of us are baffled by their candidate preferences thus far.
I’m two seconds away from comparing them to the O.J. Jury and I’d like to run a commercial in Iowa to that effect.
It would kill Fred, but someone should let them know they have intellectual toilet paper stuck to their shoe.
I do wish there were a way to tell The Mitt and Huck voters in Iowa that they are taking huge risks with Slick and Trick. There is just not the risk involved, casting a vote for Fred.
I have high hopes for Fred in Iowa but will not be devastated if he has issues.
Indeed I am getting a bit giddy. I want something else out of Iowa, and it seems that it is on target.
The Huck/Mitt battle may well have had the effect I was hoping for, and then some....
It’s hard to fault Iowa voters for not being on board with Fred Thompson.
Until a few weeks ago, Fred Thompson was not running in Iowa. His supporters here said he was skipping the state entirely, along with New Hampshire.
Sure, you’d love the Iowa voters to pick him anyway, but it’s not fair to blame them for not picking a candidate who has said he doesn’t care about their state.
Now, he’s running in Iowa. But a lot of those voters have already made their choice, and see Fred’s entry into the state to be more opportunistic than representative of a real concern he has for their state. He saw Huckabee take a notch out of Romney, and thought there was a window of opportunity.
New Hampshire’s the same way. Fred ignored them, his supporters claim there are no conservatives living in New Hampshire at all, and Fred even blew off the New Hampshire debate to make his announcement on Jay Leno.
So again, you’d like the NH voters to recognize and vote for Fred Thompson, but it’s not fair to fault them for ignoring a candidate that ignored them first.
Frankly, neither Iowa's nor New Hampshire's choices are relevant to the election as a whole. Neither are representative of the country as a whole. They're good media fodder, and that's about it.
We in Iowa are not the OJ Jury. We are the most politically informed and active folks in the Nation as a group. We are in touch with the candidates and have touched them personally for generations. The media can lie, their commercials and spin hacks can lie. But, when it comes down to looking them in the eye and getting real answers, Iowans do their job!
Fred has failed muster. And the only place he has any real support is in the very UNREAL virtual fantasy that is FreeRepublic.
Which is why I keep wondering... WHAT yer all gonna do in 2 days when Reality rises up and bites?