Posted on 02/11/2010 11:00:58 AM PST by stillafreemind
Many go to Washington and forget where they came from. Sen. Harkin in no way conducts himself like Grassley. And maybe that is one reason that even democrats have to say that they respect Sen. Grassley, even if they don't like his policies/politics.
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Because the Iowa GOP has NO “farm” system. Hence Garsslay and Brandstad continue to be the “standard bearers”. The Iowa GOP sux pretty hard.
Iowa gave us Carter and Zero and almost ended Reagan’s 1980 campaign.
Why does the GOP hold a primary in Iowa?
He’s a very down-to-earth guy, and takes good care of his constituents. He’s never met a farm subsidy that he hasn’t liked, but that is what his constituents expect.
I don’t think so.
Gee..it doesn’t appear that you have been back in Iowa all that long. Huh..I’m sure glad Sen. Grassley has much better things to say about vets than you do about him. Grassley is like an original on the whole tea party thing. Maybe you haven’t been around the last couple of decades to take them in with him.
The better question is, why does Iowa continue to vote for Harkin, the Fraud’s fellow treasonous conspirator?
Grassley, like Hatch and other odl fossils in both political parties have overstayed their congressional welcomes.
The longer these elitists occupy space in Congress, the further they becomce from their constituents and the more they acquire an “we know better than them” attitude.
Are you calling Grassley treasonous? If so, why?
Grassley was quite conservative when first elected to the US House in 1976. I remember an article in the Wall Street Journal back then that praised the new freshman Representative
Grassly was my congressman/Harkin was my congressman/Neal Smith was my congressman changes due to redistricting. So I have known Grassley for a long long time.
Grassley will likely be re-elected with 60+% of the vote. He has a lifetime ACU rating of 83, which I believe is 10 points lower than it once was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Iowa,_2010#Announced
The Republican and Democratic primaries will be held on June 8, 2010.
Republican
Announced
* Incumbent Senator Chuck Grassley of New Hartford
Potential
* Hog farmer Bill Salier of Nora Springs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2010#Chuck_Grassley_of_Iowa
Five-term Republican incumbent Chuck Grassley was reelected with 70% of the vote in 2004.
Grassley will run for reelection. Conservative Republicans suggest Grassley may face a primary challenge due to his lack of support for their issues. Among those is conservative activist Bill Salier, who said “Grassley was the dominant force and had an enormous amount of loyalty. That has so eroded out from underneath him” during an interview on WHO-AM radio.
If someone is going to challenge Grassley in the GOP primary, I’m pretty sure they only have a couple of weeks to file their petitions.
Grassley is an elitist Rino.. At his town hall meetings he only calls on the elderly with their SS checks in their hands.
Primary Election Candidate Information
FILING PERIODS
The filing periods for the June 8, 2010, Primary Election are:
* State and Federal Offices: March 1 – March 19, 2010 (5:00 p.m.)
* County Offices: March 8 – March 31, 2010 (5:00 p.m.)
Coincidentally, Rush just a few minutes ago mentioned Senator Grassley in the context of the "jobs bill" he brokered with Baucus and the Senate Finance Cmte. today.
Chuck used to be a conservative's conservative but, lately (starting with the Medicare prescriptions, if not before) he's a rube, a laughing stock, sometimes even the Dems' best friend.
It's just sad.
Grassley’s ‘jobs bill’ isn’t. I’m an employer, there is nothing contained in it but cover for Democrats. There is nothing that will cause an employer to create a single ‘new job’.
That is disappointing. Okay..Iowa sucks and so does everyone in politics. Hows that?
It doesn’t. It has caucuses.
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