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Skidmore

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12. "Ordinary" Iowans are not from outer space, you know.

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Mon Jan 2, 2012, 08:19 PM

Jan 2012

We're not all evangelicals nor do we all share the same ideological radical craziness of a Steve King. We are educated and pay attention to national and international affairs.

Chris Matthews and a few others in media need to quit attending Georgetown and Manhattan cocktail parties and basing their assessment of conventional wisdom on what they hear from their fellow inebriated bloviators and the political operatives they suck up to.

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Boy, you wouldn't know it from the coverage Morning Joe has been giving it! CTyankee Jan 2012 #10

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From your mouth to God's ear, Kharma! CTyankee Jan 2012 #11

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"Ordinary" Iowans are not from outer space, you know. Skidmore Jan 2012 #12

Absolutely! That was on laughable display tonight! CTyankee Jan 2012 #14

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The problem with Iowa from what I can tell from Cleita Jan 2012 #15