Stephen Green, Vodka Pundit, asks a simple question:
Dear Iowa Republicans,
I’ll put this in language even your tiny little Iowa brains can understand: What the f*** is wrong with you people?
The news coming out of Des Moines (literally, French for “tell me about the rabbits, George”) tonight is distressing in the extreme. 32 years ago, your Democratic brethren took one look at Jimmy Carter — the worst 20th Century President bar Nixon, and the worst ex-President ever — and declared, “That’s our man
James Tartano, Opinion Journal, provides Stephen a clue:
Here’s a list of the winners of past contested Iowa caucuses:
- 1972: Edmund Muskie (D.)
- 1976: Gerald Ford (R.), “Uncommitted” (D.)
- 1980: George H.W. Bush (R.), Jimmy Carter (D.)
- 1984: Walter Mondale (D.)
- 1988: Bob Dole (R.), Dick Gephardt (D.)
- 1992: Tom Harkin (D.)
- 1996: Bob Dole (R.)
- 2000: George W. Bush (R.), Al Gore (D.)
- 2004: John Kerry (D.)
Only one of these caucuses–the Republican one in 2000–actually produced a president. (Jimmy Carter finished first among actual candidates in 1976.) Of course, political trends like this one go on only until they end, and this one already has an exception
Nothing is wrong with Iowa caucusers, at least nothing new. Save for candidates named Bush, Iowans make it habit to pick losers. And the demographics of Mike Huckabee’s Iowa win are so far removed from the demographics of the nation as a wh0le as to render Huckabee’s chances of winning the nomination trivial. Iowa is simply the O.J. Jury of caucuses.
More, Memeorandum.
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