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bedsitter23It was a good week for the Iowa caucuses.
Iowa is as divided into partisan politics like any state, but the Republican Governor and the State's Democrat chair did get together to plot to keep Iowa first caucus in the nation.
There may be not alot the State's top Dem and top Republican agree, but they do agree that Iowa needs to fight to go first.
Additionally, they both think Curious George is awesome.
It was also good for Iowa that Rick Santorum really owned the Republican field in three contests this week.
There may be more to it than that - these were pretty Conservatives spot, and Willard has some serious problems (the most significant being a poll this week, that the more Republican voters get to know Romney, the less they like him).
It also may play a part that Santorum could quite possibly be the biggest competition to Mitt (at least, until he unveils his plan to use FedEx to track down undocumented immigrants. Hey-Oh!). Maybe, if there was another choice beside Newt and Paul, Santorumentum wouldn't be gathering its second wind (The other political story of this week has been JFK's tryst with an intern- a news story that seems to be met with a general "Who cares if he's a horndog, we think he was a great leader" response. To which Herman Cain says "Gawddamit so much".)
There's no way Santorum wins this all at the end, but it's good news for the caucus. Santorum has become a serious candidate, and when history is written, will be one of the top three winners of this campaign season. Had Santorum been shutout going forward, the conventional wisdom would have been confirmed, and there would be worry that a state so beholden to the Far Right can only give the party unelectable wingnuts.
It's still true (Huckabee, Santorum, and way too strong of performances by Pat Robertson and Pat Buchanan), but at least, it's less noticeable.
One last caucus related story this week from the Hawkeye State, being the "Gay is not Okay" sign posted by a downtown Des Moines church (at least for one evening- it was changed to the less alarming and less-Newt friendly "Adultery is not okay").
The church's pastor was last in the news for taking to the road for Michele Bachmann (This was back in December, when a Romney or Gingrich win in Iowa was impending) calling her "Biblically Qualified".
Not surprising then, that both Santorum and Bachmann made stops at the "Gay is not Okay" church.
Still, at least for a few months, Iowa isn't in campaign season, and the guy who got Santorum the nomination is back to his regular day-by-day activites- like boycotting Starbucks because they hate marriage (and by marriage I mean real one man- onewoman sacred, sanctified marraige like the one Kim Kardashian and Kris Humpheries had) and say so (While there isn't much proof that Starbucks said ""God's design of marriage is bad for America" like Vander Plats claims, well, I am sure they would because they are evil liberals).
Iowa is as divided into partisan politics like any state, but the Republican Governor and the State's Democrat chair did get together to plot to keep Iowa first caucus in the nation.
There may be not alot the State's top Dem and top Republican agree, but they do agree that Iowa needs to fight to go first.
Additionally, they both think Curious George is awesome.
It was also good for Iowa that Rick Santorum really owned the Republican field in three contests this week.
There may be more to it than that - these were pretty Conservatives spot, and Willard has some serious problems (the most significant being a poll this week, that the more Republican voters get to know Romney, the less they like him).
It also may play a part that Santorum could quite possibly be the biggest competition to Mitt (at least, until he unveils his plan to use FedEx to track down undocumented immigrants. Hey-Oh!). Maybe, if there was another choice beside Newt and Paul, Santorumentum wouldn't be gathering its second wind (The other political story of this week has been JFK's tryst with an intern- a news story that seems to be met with a general "Who cares if he's a horndog, we think he was a great leader" response. To which Herman Cain says "Gawddamit so much".)
There's no way Santorum wins this all at the end, but it's good news for the caucus. Santorum has become a serious candidate, and when history is written, will be one of the top three winners of this campaign season. Had Santorum been shutout going forward, the conventional wisdom would have been confirmed, and there would be worry that a state so beholden to the Far Right can only give the party unelectable wingnuts.
It's still true (Huckabee, Santorum, and way too strong of performances by Pat Robertson and Pat Buchanan), but at least, it's less noticeable.
One last caucus related story this week from the Hawkeye State, being the "Gay is not Okay" sign posted by a downtown Des Moines church (at least for one evening- it was changed to the less alarming and less-Newt friendly "Adultery is not okay").
The church's pastor was last in the news for taking to the road for Michele Bachmann (This was back in December, when a Romney or Gingrich win in Iowa was impending) calling her "Biblically Qualified".
Not surprising then, that both Santorum and Bachmann made stops at the "Gay is not Okay" church.
Still, at least for a few months, Iowa isn't in campaign season, and the guy who got Santorum the nomination is back to his regular day-by-day activites- like boycotting Starbucks because they hate marriage (and by marriage I mean real one man- onewoman sacred, sanctified marraige like the one Kim Kardashian and Kris Humpheries had) and say so (While there isn't much proof that Starbucks said ""God's design of marriage is bad for America" like Vander Plats claims, well, I am sure they would because they are evil liberals).
