So, as everyone who has seen the news, or, at the very least, The Daily Show, knows by now, Howard Dean managed to embarass himself pretty thoroughly in Iowa earlier this week. I think the Seattle University Spectator sums it up pretty well:
CNN had a nasty little habit of showing Howard Dean next to breaking news reports, adding ‘frontrunner’ to his name and were certain that no one else had a chance. But what happens now that a small state in the Midwest has shown that Dean is not their frontrunner?
It’s amazing how important two tiny states can be every four years, but how their importance wanes over time. A year from now no one is going to care about John Kerry’s upset in Iowa, because this sort of thing is easily forgotten. Who remembered that Dick Gephardt had taken Iowa in 2000 or that Clinton had a terrible time assembling the insignificant percent of the New Hampshire vote he received in 1992?
However, there has been two moments in the 2004 primary race that I hope everyone will remember.
The first was Dean’s sociopath speech after realizing that he had only taken a minuscule 18 percent of the Iowa votes in the caucus. Monday night was almost surreal. Dean’s face turning pink, then purple, fists firing like bullets into the air. There is even a moment where he presents some perfect jazz fingers. Witnesses have said it was like Jerry Lewis Goes to Washington, while others were just waiting for Dean to slip Poland between Massachusetts and Ohio.
Even Dean supporters were taken aback by the way their candidate performed. A man who was a regular on the Dean blog vowed not to donate another cent to Dean and explained how he’d already wasted $500 on the campaign.
So imagine my amusement whilst perusing some Mac-related sites when I spotted a techno remix of Dean’s travel plans using Apple’s new audio program, GarageBand. Definately good for a chuckle.
Frankly, from what I’ve seen of the candidates this year (including Bush, Kerry, Dean, Clark, Sharpton, and that guy with the toilet), more than ever I’m wishing there was a “none of the above” option on the November ballot.