Hedgecoth: Five reasons Bachmann better savor Straw Poll win

A couple politicians I have worked with call the summer before an election year the “silly season,” meaning the focus is all about fringe issues and groups, and there's little meaningful back and forth among candidates.  It's mostly bio pieces and staged events.  So it is with the Iowa Caucus process in the summer runup to Iowa's own winter classic.

If you were there, I dont have to tell you Ames was about which candidate could purchase tickets for the most Iowans who were willing to have a good time listening to speakers pipe off about the horrors President Obama has visited on America while munching awesome state-fair-like food.   It's a show of intensity – mass marketed emotional manipulation, a release point for pent-up conserative frustrations.  It's what we oldtimers used to call a “mosh pit.”

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