{"id":2557,"date":"2007-09-06T13:02:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T20:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/09\/06\/bill-richardson-wants-49-states-of-the-union-to-go-to-hell\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T20:02:12","slug":"bill-richardson-wants-49-states-of-the-union-to-go-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/09\/06\/bill-richardson-wants-49-states-of-the-union-to-go-to-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Richardson wants 49 states of the union to go to Hell."},"content":{"rendered":"

I am, of course, number one million to point\u00c2\u00a0us to this, but at times it just seems worthwhile to note these moments for a sort of record for poserity, the downfall moment a candidate, and where Bill Richardson lost me.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson said Tuesday that his comment about it being God’s will that Iowa votes first was off-the-cuff as he defended the state’s primacy in the nomination process.<\/em><\/p>\n

Campaigning in south-central Iowa, the New Mexico governor faced questions about his comment Monday in which he suggested that there was a more serious reason for Iowa to lead the nomination process with caucuses.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Iowa, for good reason, for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord, should be the first caucus and primary,” he said Monday. “And I want you to know who was the first candidate to sign a pledge not to campaign anywhere if they got ahead of Iowa. It was Bill Richardson.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The Des Moines Register reported on Richardson’s comments to the Northwest Iowa Labor Council Picnic in Sioux City.<\/em><\/p>\n

Asked about it Tuesday, Richardson said: “Look, that was an off-the-cuff comment where I said Iowa and New Hampshire should be first.”<\/em><\/p>\n

When pressed further, he said Iowa should launch the primary calendar because “it’s a tradition in American politics that has worked.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Iowa scrutinizes candidates through a grass-roots state. They are very good at winnowing down candidates,” he said. “They don’t listen to national polls. Iowa voters are very independent and issue-oriented.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I cannot quite figure out which part of the story is worst: the first part — God loves Iowa just as he (she? it?) loves every single sports team on the planet.\u00c2\u00a0 (Though its spot on the presidential election calendar is roughly as much a curse as anything else.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to bump my elbow\u00c2\u00a0against John Cox the next time I eat breakfast at a diner.)\u00c2\u00a0 Or his later implications, which… well… serves as an attack at the other 49 states as much as it does a service to the greatness of Iowa…<\/p>\n

Arbitariness in the now insane presidential process notwithstanding … I hear Iowa is a hole anyways.\u00c2\u00a0 And I say that because I want to burn any and all possible bridges to an American\u00c2\u00a0Presidency.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe I should also solicit sex in the men’s room?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am, of course, number one million to point\u00c2\u00a0us to this, but at times it just seems worthwhile to note these moments for a sort of record for poserity, the downfall moment a candidate, and where Bill Richardson lost me.\u00c2\u00a0 Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson said Tuesday that his comment about it being God’s will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}