Not only does Vile-sack make Terry Branstad look like an action hero, it took Tommy the Teacher's Pet only one term to put Iowa into a nose dive from which it may never recover. Good grief, in a land where public education is the state golden calf, he couldn't even keep his hometown school bus company open.
Note to Iowa GOP: next election for governor, abandon the polite turn-taking method and try to run a candidate who is neither a businessman with ethical baggage nor a naif who is unable to control his outbursts. For crying out loud, the party could set up a roadblock on Highway 14 near Fern at three in the morning and within the hour you'd round up a half-dozen people who were more electable. The 'rats here in the Hawkeye State are turning increasingly to unloveable caricatures- don't follow suit.
Its been a long time since we lived in Iowa and I'd forgotten about the big school bus plant in Mount Pleasant. This town played my hometown in high school sports and I remember motoring over to a couple of football games and seeing row after row of new yellow busses at this plant. Too bad it closed. Is Maytag next ?