More Iowa Musings

• Damn. My hope was that Ron Paul coming ahead of John McCain in Iowa, which is totally possible, would hurt him severely. But apparently the pre-spin is that any number McCain posts is better than expected because he wasn't even competing in the state (even though he was there as recently as last weekend). The media REALLY wants to write the Comeback McCain story.

• Giuliani, unafraid of terrorists, afraid of a Segway.

• I agree that this bipartisanship virus is a function of leadership. When Obama runs a whole campaign on bringing the country together, then he wins and realizes that the hard-core Republicans don't want to hold hands and will work just as hard to filibuster his entire agenda, what then? Will that be a Republican failure or his failure of leadership? It's a risky and dangerous game to be playing.

• Joe Lieberman is a simpleton. The fact that McCain is hitching himself to that star is one reason why his candidacy doesn't concern me to the extent that other bloggers have shown concern.

• FDL has a rundown of everyone's closing ad in Iowa. Duncan Hunter's cracks me up. He looks like he's selling low-cost insurance or some new wonder knife or something.



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