The Des Moines Register is about to announce its endorsement of a GOP caucus candidate. It will be good for one news cycle of excess verbiage among the political classes, then fade iinto the murk.
The Register has a history of endorsing the left-most candidate who has never been convicted of a serious felony. This year that would seem to be Romney, but everything else is so screwy any guess is dangerous.
The paper is trying to create suspense -- and traffic -- with a poll asking whom you think it will endorse. Ron Paul is the runaway winner. Good enough, although it is apparently a result of Paulistas' intensity rather than an answer to the actual question. The paper didn't ask, and doesn't care, whom it should endorse.
Dec 17, 2011
Stop me if you've already heard this.
In 2012, Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address happen the same day. This is an ironic juxtaposition of events.
One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication.
The other involves a groundhog.
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(Thank you, Hans)
One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication.
The other involves a groundhog.
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(Thank you, Hans)
An Iowa blogger joins the TMR blog roll. He's ColdHardCashner, a Constitutionalist and big-L Libertarian who's spending this season working hard for Ron Paul in the Iowa caucus. Welcome aboard, Sir.
The hot, the tepid, and the frozen; Iowa Caucuses 2012
The complete TMR caucus list just published named 25 hopefuls.
Of those, 12 remain alive for the caucuses, although some only in the purely techincal sense. As a practical matter, six are cyrogenic. None actively campaigned. Among them, only Huntsman is accorded a chance of scoring as much as 5 per cent. Johnson might eke out 1 per cent. The aggregate vote for these men should not materially affect the chances of any of the viable candidates.
John Davis
Jon Huntsman
Gary Johnson
Fred Karger
Roy Moore
Buddy Roemer
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The tepid. Any one of them might break out into the hot class over the remaining 17 days. Short of Venus melting right into Mars, however, none of them will head for New Hampshire with a braggable Iowa record.
Michele Bachman
Rick Perry
Rick Santorum
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Leaving the hotties
Newt Gingrich
Ron Paul
Mitt Romney
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These lists are alphabetical. I'm not ready to handicap horses (whole or partial) yet, just as I would be scared witless to bet on the number of hours the next Kardashian marriage will endure.
Of those, 12 remain alive for the caucuses, although some only in the purely techincal sense. As a practical matter, six are cyrogenic. None actively campaigned. Among them, only Huntsman is accorded a chance of scoring as much as 5 per cent. Johnson might eke out 1 per cent. The aggregate vote for these men should not materially affect the chances of any of the viable candidates.
John Davis
Jon Huntsman
Gary Johnson
Fred Karger
Roy Moore
Buddy Roemer
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The tepid. Any one of them might break out into the hot class over the remaining 17 days. Short of Venus melting right into Mars, however, none of them will head for New Hampshire with a braggable Iowa record.
Michele Bachman
Rick Perry
Rick Santorum
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Leaving the hotties
Newt Gingrich
Ron Paul
Mitt Romney
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These lists are alphabetical. I'm not ready to handicap horses (whole or partial) yet, just as I would be scared witless to bet on the number of hours the next Kardashian marriage will endure.
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