What’s on your mind this weekend, Bleeding Heartland readers? Many prospective presidential candidates are speaking at the Iowa Freedom Summit today. I’ll update this post later with clips and highlights.
An MSNBC story on Representative Steve King (IA-04) made a splash yesterday with this revelation:
King is not above gloating. His staff kept a running list of some 12-16 prominent Republicans who’ve leveled personal criticisms against him. The congressman said he went over it himself the other day, just for old time’s sake.
“Their agenda [on immigration] has been marginalized,” a smiling King told msnbc. “Mine’s been strengthened.”
True, but that’s to the long-term detriment of the country and the Republican Party.
Who do you think is on King’s enemies list? Probably not many Iowans, aside from Doug Gross.
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I just got around to reading Kevin’s day-long blow-by-blow and taking his characterization of the various speeches as pretty much what was being said, I’d imagine that the crowd had a good time.
Plenty enough red meat for the hungry. Most every repubs’ personal sacred deity got the chance to fire up his/her particular sect. Probably plenty of crowd excitement and pumped up folk departing that parking lot last night.
Hopefully to our benefit, some seeds of discord got planted amongst the choir. You know, the my-candidate-is-the-pure-one-and-yours-doesn’t-even-love-Jesus kind of squabbles that we watch grow and fester over there.
conservative-demo Sun 25 Jan 7:13 PM