Iowa caucuses, New
Hampshire, the Republican Party and The King of Hearts by Kevin Dayhoff for www.TheTentacle.com
A repristic shibboleth of sorts. I’m just saying…
January 11, 2012
The King of Hearts
Kevin E. Dayhoff
It is fairly well accepted among keen observers of national
politics that the Iowa caucuses of Tuesday a week ago are much more about
political and media-theater than a prognosticator of who will vie for the Oval
Office this fall.
As one political pundit put it, you pick corn in Iowa; you
pick the next president in New Hampshire. Maybe so – maybe not. I’d rather look
at Iowa as a political combine – a soulless machine that separates the wheat
from the chaff.
Above and beyond the not-too-small matter that the January
3rd caucus is a win-win moneymaking machine for Iowa, the political opera
is otherwise literally, repristically, heuristically, and metaphorically a
brutal threshing and winnowing process.
First the candidates are milled and pounded and then thrown
in the air. The chaff – the lightweights and the also-rans – are then ground
into dust and blown off to the side to be plowed back into the earth.
Yet Iowa in 2008 was an anomaly of sorts. In the January 3,
2008, Democratic Party caucuses… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4852
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