Iowa Republican Straw Poll

[Riot]

Originally Posted by bigrun

Have you ever seen a glummer or grouchier bunch of presidential aspirants than the current GOP crop? You’d be working those frown lines, too, I guess, if you thought, as Rick Santorum does, that this year’s race will decide “whether we will be a free people.”

I've never seen a bunch that wanted government to take over our lives and dictate what we can and cannot do so badly, on a national level. It's the John Birch Society writ large.