RAGBRAI Flat; Loebsack says 'Out In Six Months'
RAGBRAI stops (not full route) released. That first leg in the far northwest - Rock Rapids to Spencer - looks tailor made for a GOP candidate. Betcha "Biggest Loser" Huckabee rides... plus we got the Field of Dreams this year.
So I'm taking bets: which Dem, if any, gets the Bruce Babbitt Award for riding RAGBRAI? Won't be one of the Big Three... and which Republican loses style points for too blatantly trying to schmooze Lance?
Meanwhile, another of a thousand cuts for Mitt Romney: contributions to Democrats. Romney seems likely to be the Dogs Don't Like It candidate of 2008. And now that McCain has sold out in order to get the Turn, Chuck Hagel is the new McCain.
Iowa Citians off to the peace march in DC this weekend, while our new congressman signs on as a cosponsor of the measure by Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) that requires all U.S. troops to be withdrawn within six months. This is considered the toughest anti-war bill and the list reads like a House lefty who's who. And I'm happy to see Loebsack in such company. Iowa Progress gets the hat tip.
And evvvvvvrybody wants to sit by Tom Harkin at the State Of The Union.
The worst.
Republicans better hope that Chuck Hagel runs for president and gets some traction in the party. After GWB's impending "surge", the election will be about the war and little else. There is exactly one Republican candidate who has been on the right side of this war since the beginning, and that is Hagel, and that makes him the only electable Republican in 2008.
ReplyDeleteChuck is prominently featured in my most recent YouTube effort "It's the war, stupid." and recent blog post of the same name.