With the retirement of Tom Harkin, Iowa Republicans are jockeying for position for a run at their party’s nomination to take that seat. Rep. Steve King seems to be the leading candidate if he chooses to run, but if he doesn’t he could be replaced by someone even crazier, right wing talk show host Steve Deace:
Iowa radio host Steve Deace will look seriously at running for Senate if conservative Rep. Steve King passes.
The nationally-syndicated commentator, who fashions himself a “conservative blowtorch,” put Karl Rove and Republican Gov. Terry Branstad on notice Thursday that no establishment-favored candidate will skate to the nomination – a warning that heightens the possibility of a bloody primary in a state the GOP must win in any realistic scenario to take the Senate next year.
“I think that it’s Steve King time to take the next step,” Deace told POLITICO. “Him running is sort of necessary to show that Karl Rove cannot pick our candidate. If King decides not to run, then I think it’s very important that someone who actually shares the principles that have made King so popular with conservatives across Iowa runs for that seat.”
Oh please. Pretty please.
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Dave Maier
March 5, 2013 at 1:20 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Him running is sort of necessary to show that Karl Rove cannot pick our candidate.”
I’m not a grammar nazi or anything (most of the time), but how exactly does he think this parses? “Him” is the object of …. ?
holytape
March 5, 2013 at 1:29 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Even if there is a 1 in Graham’s number chance of him winning that is too great of a chance. Can he just run for dog catcher? That way we can laugh at him, without the remote possibility that he comes in contact with real power.
d.c.wilson
March 5, 2013 at 3:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Nobody lobbying Michele Bachmann to jump states and run? She was born in Iowa, after all.
cottonnero
March 5, 2013 at 4:49 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Is Steve Deace the plural of Steve Doocy?
dan4
March 5, 2013 at 8:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It’s pretty unlikely at this point that King won’t run, so the entire premise behind the article is pretty silly.
Ichthyic
March 5, 2013 at 9:59 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
yes, nobody should be worried that idiots like teapartiers will make it into office and cause significant damage. I do recall those same sentiments being said before the 2010 elections.
….and the inevitable idiocracy proceeds apace.
Michael Heath
March 5, 2013 at 10:02 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I feel let down after reading the blog post title. I thought this might be the blond idiot on Fox and Friends; then Ed and cottonero @ 4 have to go and burst my bubble.
dan4
March 5, 2013 at 11:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@6: Uh, BOTH King and Deace are teapartiers, so I don’t know what you’re going on about.
skinnercitycyclist
March 6, 2013 at 7:21 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The proper construction (“His running is sort of necessary…”) is beyond the grammatical powers of most Americans.
Also,
indicates another nail in the coffin of appropriate word choice….