Pull up another bale of straw; Iowa Caucuses 2012

Eleven years ago, George Pataki got a big wet smooch from Carolyn McCarthy. You remember her -- the eek-eek-a-gun New York congresswoman. She was rewarding her governor for  signing "the strictest gun control laws in the nation."

He probably won't display a picture of that tender moment Saturday at the Iowa State Fairgrounds where The Great Expecters expect him to further pollute  join the herd of neocons running for president.

Pataki has been mostly under the TMR radar, and I think he's been mentioned here only in passing. Nevertheless, he's now being added to your vital list of other Republicans braying for votes in the Iowa caucuses.

A net search on this guy reveals he's become quite a backer of our veterans.  His pollsters told him they have  become a voting block of heroic size. That makes them heroes to  patriotic George, so he hopes you won't  notice a tidbit from his personal history.

In 1964 he was 19 years old at a time when it was easy to demonstrate your patriotism by fighting bad guys Vietnam. George found it more convenient to march off to Yale.