After watching a GOP caucus then analyzing results while taking notes I have a full analysis of the Iowa caucus by Modern Socialist
(liberal)
Thursday, January 5, 2012
I watched a caucus in Iowa over the youtube channel kccitv, whom was doing a live broadcasting of one specific caucus at Crocker Elementary, Aneky, Polk County. As a New Yorker I'm not used to caucuses. So it was interesting for me to watch how a caucus worked. The head said every candidate has a speaker on behalf of him/her. Except for Ron Paul who was there himself and John Huntsman, who didn't have a speaker because no one heard of him and no one heard of him because he didn't have a speaker. Each problem is causing the other.
First to speak was Michelle Bachman's son Harrison. He, like every other candidate used Regan to get votes. Stating "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" My answer to that is we ended the war in Iraq, the unemployment rate dropped. He passed the Affordable Care Act, which is although not perfect it's a step forward. He signed a temporary payroll tax cut. Back to the question, Yes, we are better off than we were four years ago. Harrison Bachman said his mother is a tripple stooled conservative. George W. Bush was the last time we had that. I'm sure that was worse than Obama.
Next a Gingrich supporter named Michael Steele spoke. He's from Georgia and spent a long time saying good reasons to vote for Gingrich and then stating that's not his primary reason why he's voting for him. He ended off with a reason much weaker than what else Newt can do. He ended saying I trust Newt in a combat situation and that's why I support him. He had a boring, tedious, repetitive speech that was good in the beggining but didn't convince people to vote for Gingrich.
Ron Paul was there and called himself a conservative. He's actually a libertarian, if anyone has not noticed. He said being a conservative means to support a small government and follow the constitution. He is going to audit the Federal Reserve and cut government spending. I might not agree with it but Paul's voriation on Regan's quote "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Ron Paul joked "Are you better off than you were 4 trillion dollars ago?" His main points were to stop policing the world (Which I don't think we're doing). And stop spending so much.
Griffin Perry, Rick perr's son basicly said everything in his father's "Strong" ad.
John Thune a senator supported Romney. He said all candidates are an improvement to Obama. He then got a loud applause. If an Alien started to follow the election it would think the best ways to get votes in the GOP election are talking about how you helped Regan, insulting gays, anti-christians and foremost insulting Obama as being your main priority.
Steve Varney spoke for Santorum. He was reading his speech and it sounded like he barely practised. In it he said Santorum doesn't spend unnecessarily. He regardes Santorum as a true warior even comparing him to George Washington.Varney stated that "Santorum will be better than Abraham Lincoln." He said Santorum is a strong christian in his values. He said since the bible and constitution are both moral he believed the founding fathers wanted the country to be run on christianity. Thomas Jefferson wrote a book called Phillosiphy of Jeesus and just took morals from the bible but he didn't want christianity to be weaved into our country's laws.
In the end Romney won by only eight votes. Right on top of Santorum. And Ron Paul seemed to fall behind as more of the counts continued. I do not believe in any manipulated votes conspiracy. Ron Paul didn't appeal to more conservative parts of Iowa, therefore he lost. Santorum spent too much of his money early. It won't help him win and a president who spends too much too early can't be good.
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