To: SeekAndFind
It’s our own fault for allowing IA to have such enormously disproportionate influence in our choosing of a president. Any candidate with reasonable notions with regard to agricultural subsidies (farm welfare) will get clobbered and probably knocked out of the race before it really gets started.
Same to a lesser degree with NH.
To: Sherman Logan
Its our own fault for allowing IA to have such enormously disproportionate influence in our choosing of a president. Any candidate with reasonable notions with regard to agricultural subsidies (farm welfare) will get clobbered and probably knocked out of the race before it really gets started. That's a very astute observation. My work takes me frequently to Iowa and other parts of the upper Midwest. To this day, that "populist progressive" philosophy still lingers from the days of RINO "Fighting" Bob La Follette and his ilk as well as the grange movement. I still come across some people my age (approaching 70) up there who speak fondly of Henry Wallace for his "work" during his reign in the USDA.
I'd sure like to see Oklahoma play a pivotal role in the primaries. It's the one state that had not a single county go for O'Bambi in 2008. Our neighbor across the Red River has two of the most reliably Conservative members of the Senate. And, when I venture up north on I-35, it does "send a thrill up my leg" when I see signs like this at the filling stations:
19 posted on
04/28/2011 12:16:07 PM PDT by
re_nortex
(DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
To: Sherman Logan
Its our own fault for allowing IA to have such enormously disproportionate influence in our choosing of a president.Any state with a lib senator like Harkin should have no influence in choosing the Republican nominee for President.
22 posted on
04/28/2011 12:19:14 PM PDT by
Night Hides Not
(If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
To: Sherman Logan
Its our own fault for allowing IA to have such enormously disproportionate influence in our choosing of a president. Any candidate with reasonable notions with regard to agricultural subsidies (farm welfare) will get clobbered and probably knocked out of the race before it really gets started. Same to a lesser degree with NH.
Sums it up rather nicely. Thank you.
TS
49 posted on
04/28/2011 1:13:48 PM PDT by
The Shrew
(www.wintersoldier.com; www.tstrs.com; The Truth Shall Set You Free!)
To: Sherman Logan
Its our own fault for allowing IA to have such enormously disproportionate influence in our choosing of a president.Here's an Iowan who heartily agrees. Iowa, however, encourages the worst that either party can offer and the various "worsts" will make sure it remains "first."
Mr. niteowl77
65 posted on
04/29/2011 5:10:31 AM PDT by
niteowl77
(I don't mind them stewing in their own juices, but I do mind them stewing me in their own juices.)
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