Tag Archives: Iowa

Our First Quadrennial Hawkie Awards

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff is pleased to announce Campaign Outsider’s Hawkie Awards, a quadrennial exercise in highlighting the most ridiculous aspects of the Iowa caucuses, outside of the fact that they have any impact at all. Regardless, nunc est bibendum: I’ll … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABC, Gentle Giant, Google, Hawkie Awards, Iowa, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Newtron, quarter horse, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, The Note, USA Today | 2 Comments

NYT Rips The Lid Off Romney’s Gunsels

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Restore Our Future, the pro-Mitt Romney Super PAC that has spent $3 million on TV spots in Iowa during the past three weeks, should really have been named Destroy Newt’s Future. From today’s New York Time Page One feature: Group’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Destroy Newt Gingrich, Iowa, Mitt Romney, New York Times, Restore Our Future, super-PAC | 5 Comments

Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Iowa Ad-O-Rama Edition)

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

And the hit jobs just keep on comin’ in the Hawkeye State’s GOP presidential slapfight. • Rick Perry goes cartoon in his latest Iowa TV spot. Got that? “The fox guarding the henhouse is like asking a Congressman to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Fox, I See an America, Iowa, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Newtered, Restore Our Future, Rick Perry, South Carolina | 1 Comment

Ron Paul Goes For The Pro-Life, Er, Kill

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Up to now, GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul’s TV spots (all $2.5 million of them) have focused on cutting the federal budget by one trillion dollars and blowing up a variety of federal agencies and calling his opponents little shih … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Iowa, little shih tzus, Morning Score, New Hampshire, Politico, pro-life, Ron Paul, Simon Cowell, X-Factor | 2 Comments

Dead Blogging The GOP’s Sioux City Bakeoff

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Full disclosure: The hardworking staff could only stand watching the first hour of last night’s Republican presidential primary debate, but we did pick up some slop from Fox News on the second hour. The GOP Magnificant Seven gathered in Sioux … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Fox News, GOP debate, GOP Magnificant Seven, Iowa, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul (R-Austria), Sioux City, YouTube | Leave a comment

Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Paul Mauls Gingrich Edition)

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

GOP presidential quadrennial Ron (Big Dog) Paul has taken his smashmouth web video charging Newt (Top Dog) Gingrich with serial hypocrisy and cut it down to a 60-second TV spot airing in Iowa: (“I’m Mitt Romney, and I approve this … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Big Dog, Iowa, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Top Dog | 2 Comments

Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Newt Gingrich Edition)

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Newt Gingrich’s first Iowa TV spot features the on-his-meds Newt (calm, measured, focused) as opposed to the off-the-cuff Newt (popcorn machine of bad ideas). If he can keep the latter out of sight for the next few months, he just … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Des Moines Register, Iowa, Newt Gingrich | 1 Comment

Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Cain & Airable Edition)

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Hormone – sorry, Herman – Cain has launched his first ad campaign, and it’s, well, eminently forgettable. Via MSNBC’s First Read: DES MOINES, Iowa — Herman Cain released his first television ad of the presidential cycle today, not surprisingly, in the first-in-the-nation … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Dan Kleckner, First Read, Herman Cain, Iowa, MSNBC, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Steve Grubbs | 3 Comments

Mitt Romney Can’t Add

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

In a rare encounter with actual people, presidential wannabe Mitt Romney (R-Call Me Ahab) parachuted into Iowa this week in an effort to – wait for it – campaign there without seeming to campaign there. According to a New York … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Dubuque, Iowa, Mitt Romney, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, New York Times | 3 Comments

Cain ‘High-Tech-Lynching’ Ad Coming Soon To A TV Near You?

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Grand Old Partier Hormone Cain (R-Am I Clarence Thomas Yet?) has just released a high dudgeon high-tech-lynching web video that’s as ludicrous as his shape-shifting defense against sexual harassment charges has been. Via Romensko: Jim Geraghty of the National … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Clarence Thomas, Grand Old Partier, high tech lynching, Hormone Cain, Iowa, Jim Geraghty, National Review Online, Romenesko | 1 Comment