Time For Iowa to Give It Up

Forget this goofy "Straw Poll" thing we just went through.  Keep your early caucus, but scrub this ridiculous exercise in poltics. Please.

"Anybody Who Says Ames Matters Is Smoking Something Illegal,"

John Podhoretz @ The Corner says of the Ames Iowa straw poll last weekend. "I'm even reading stuff suggesting it's significant that Fred Thompson beat Rudy Giuliani — by a total of 20 Iowans. Look, I understand that the political press sent to Ames for the weekend needs to have something to write about. What they should be writing about is that this event is to the Republican presidential nomination as a clown car is [...]

Tags: Iowa, Straw Poll, Ames

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