Slamming Iowa?

Hey, watch that. Well, not really. Iowa has some good traits, as a state. If you like hunting and fishing, if you want to find a fantastic state to raise a family, if you still insist on public schools and want a better education for your children, this could be the place. Do not expect to get wealthy working here. California, New York, maybe Chicago are the places to go if you have the grit, Minneapolis if you are a techy, there you will find wealth and of course greater expense (plus crime, grime, slime, and prison schools into which you may imprison your soon to be criminal brats if you go public school). However, if you had any notion that Iowa does anything for a candidate, except perhaps to show a few zeros the door, you are mistaken.

I cannot remember the last time Iowa voters picked a winner. I am pretty sure, beyond that, our voting does not even act as a reverse indicator, or show probability of electability in any way (though at least as good as the NYTs), or really anything but put random numbers to random faces meaning less than nothing. Heck, we do not even kick out those zeros, they just run out of money trying to convince us to put their name on the boards near some useless numbers. I stopped taking Iowa seriously, regarding this, before I was old enough to vote!

So, kick the state if you want. But it is a little like hating a pig because it does not produce beef, or milk, or honey. Pigs do not produce anything but pork product and a really foul smelling muck not unlike modern liberalism, though fowl are more foul, must be pure socialists or communists. In any case, sour grapes about your chosen candidate’s standing is a personal problem. And, if you look at the thing correctly and your candidate did not do very well but also did not zero, be happy. This means your candidate actually has a chance. Let the “winners” gloat, they will be sucking sour eggs, with or without ham, green or otherwise, shortly. Osama will become, well, there you go. And Huck-a-who? will become… I cannot recall at the moment.

But cut the whining. Gees Louise already. Oh, and Paul still sucks.