Tomorrow's WSJ (January 3) has an op-ed by a writer named Michael Judge titled "Ignore Iowa" - his comments make a lot of sense. Judge points out that a third of Iowa's voters (the independents) can't participate. Even with that only a small percentage of the possible party members actually attend a caucus. What is more Iowa is not a very good projection on the final choice. He points out that the last president they picked was Jimmy Carter.
He states "One thing's certain, he wouldn't have liked the Huckabee-Obama-Clinton-Romney-Biden-Giuliani-Dodd-Kucinich-Richardson-Thompson-Edwards-Paul pandering we Iowans have been putting up with for the past six months. He'd probably say these politicians remind him of the mayor's wife and her gaggle of followers in Meredith Wilson's "The Music Man." "Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little, cheep, cheep, cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more." In a sense that comment sums up all the posts I did in the last few days about the alternatives we are facing.
The full article can be found on the WSJ Website.
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