But, Will it Play in Iowa?
Fred Thompson has an airtight political machine, one that hums along as a single unit, presenting a unified face…
Huh? Karen Hanretty, one of his top aides? Oh, yeah that.
“It’s time to put America first and make Iowa go last,” Karen Hanretty wrote in the Hill’s pundits blog on August 10. She recently joined Thompson’s presidential campaign as deputy communications director.Hanretty’s primary beef with Iowa lies in the “politics of ethanol,” as she puts it.
“Imagine there’s no first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus,” she wrote about the state’s unique status as being the first to cast a vote in the presidential nominating process. “No need to pander to corn farmers. No politicizing ethanol for votes. No pressure to support hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded ethanol subsidies.” — CNN
That ought to go down real well in Iowa. Maybe they can run with that in Nebraska, too. Surely those farm boys there think the Corn Huskers moniker is just tongue in cheek. Snerk. I think Freddie needs to hire 10 more just like her.
Politics used to be a competitive sport. Nowadays, it’s akin to shooting fish in a barrel. Except, the fish keep shooting themselves.
September 7th, 2007 at 10:41 am
It is not politically astute for a campaign aide to make an essentially correct statement about a product that does little good and has the potential to cause great harm if it hurts her boss’s chances there. That’s too bad.
Her statement as quoted above should have been worked into John Lennons song. Imagine.
September 7th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I think there’s more to it than that. She came across to me as dismissive of a state because it’s Ag based. That will play like a ton of bricks in the mid-west.