Midwesterner Ann Friedman has some advice for Rudy Giuliani on mistakes he might want to avoid during future Iowa campaign events.
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Amber Waves of Grain
11 Sep 2007 06:08 pm
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I agree with John DE but would add that this is the kind of knowing commentary on IA (har har, look at the politicians relate to the heartlanders so clumsily) that would normally lead to narcissistic shriekery and blogospheric wankery about the broken primary system and smarmy, trivial political journalism. Of course it's a blog thing, so I don't understand.
Blogs are terrible.
Even on his best days, Rudy Giuliani will never play in Peoria. He's completely out of his element in the Midwest and everybody knows it.
Conversely, Hillary has shown that her Midwestern upbringing actually counts for something. She hasn't won everyone over, but she definitely fits right in.
As Mr. Giuliani moved on to the next table, Mrs. Thomsen whispered a mischievous aside: “I had hoped he would not show up in a suit-coat, because this is not a suit-coat community in August.”
This reinforces my believe that the early caucuses and primaries of Iowa and NH have turned the citizens there into a bunch of narcissistic, demanding pricks.
Perhaps us coastal libs (and urban non-coastal, as well) should just STOP giving the rightist GOPers advice on how to appeal to 'regular folks'?
Nothing is needed more in the US for the 08 elections to be a replay of LBJ versus Goldwater so the new-breed conservatives get the same message that old-breed conservs got from Barry's humiliating defeat: the country doesn't want your bullsh*t. The GOP needs (and the US and the world as well), yet again, a rebirth or replacement as steady voice of moderate center-right politics, instead of the neo-con, theo-con, corp-con wrong-headedness we've had since Reagan.
This reinforces my believe that the early caucuses and primaries of Iowa and NH have turned the citizens there into a bunch of narcissistic, demanding pricks
Gah, she was just having a laugh. A hell of a lot of the country doesn't spend 18 hours a day in a fucking suit.
One thing I've never understood is when locals get so mad when candidates pronounce a state or locale by how it's spelled, rather than with the local accent. Take Missouri or whatever. I don't get mad if out of state people don't pronounce my home the way we locals do, "Lawn Guyland." It's not an insult to you that the candidate is from a differnet part of the country.
I agree...that is some extraordinary weak shit in the post Matt links to...do I have to keep on hearing about how "real" these midwesterners are? Oh yeah, I keep forgetting that us LIers aren't real Americans. Funny, nobody seems to say that to my face while I'm out here living in Colorado. Maybe I can get David Broder to rule on this...
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Heads in the Sand
Spare us from the Iowa wisdom. The bottom line is that they don't want a candidate to be himself, but a guy who changes out of his suit into jeans just as the campaign bus pulls into town.
Posted by John DE | September 11, 2007 6:33 PM