Ride and Roast Revisited

In my rush to put together my report on Joni Ernst's Ride N Roast fundraiser, I forgot to pull from an article I set aside from Western Iowan political correspondent Douglas Burns.

I like Burns a lot and I bring it up 1) because he's a good writer and 2) he was there and 3) his writing hits the main points.

So check out his article and catch a quick list of his observations (as written for the local indie newspaper)

• “Hillary Clinton is the architect of Barack Obama’s failed foreign policy,” Cotton said.

• Huckabee supports replacing the federal income tax with a national sales tax.

• “We made it through Jimmy Carter,” Perry said. “We’ll make it through the Obama years. I’ll promise you that.”

• Carson said he has operated on nearly 15,000 people.

• Rubio political shot at Clinton: “I don’t have a family foundation that’s raised $2 billion, a lot of it from foreign interests.”

• Fiorina said she’d like to ask Hillary Clinton if she has ever been on a John Deere tractor. “I know she’d had a few photo opps.” Fiorina added, “Mrs. Clinton, what else don’t we know?”

• On foreign policy, Graham said his approach would be “whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defend you.” Graham also said Hillary Clinton is running a bunkered campaign with limited access.