BWHAHAHA! Bullcrap Tom. They have near zero influence and less every day. They don’t even have much influence over the money people. Every election in Iowa is a half-life, and any big name that’s been out of things more than 6 years is politically dead. If anything, that list of has beens shows you exactly where the Iowa GOP is today - totally against gay marriage.
We have one of the most conservative group of legislators on the GOP side in Iowa history, and you know full where the Paulbots and not the Establishment run RPI. There is no way this situation could exist if the conservatives didn’t have control over both the conventions and the primaries. Do you forget that Santorum won the primary and Paul came in third in the caucuses? Had the conservatives been able to rally around a candidate, Romney would have gotten stomped.
The only vestige of the old Establishment is Branstad and Grassley, and even they are markedly more conservative than the old days. So please, don’t try and sell your snow to this eskimo.
What’s Kochel, like forty or forty five years old? For such an old “has been” he sure did a number on you all. Got Romney a political win even when he didn’t get an actual win.
And I know quite a bit about the current Republican ranks of legislators, and about Branstad and Grassley. I wish they were half as conservative as you make them out to be.
But, your perspective is obviously a bit different than mine.
I gotta admit, that one made me laugh out loud.
They're a bunch of trouble making rabble rousers and we must ridicule them and not let this create a fissure where there is none.
I wonder if George Soros money is involved here.