On Saturday, the best and brightest of the Republican Party met in Iowa to plumb the depths of their descent into madness*.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) invited the 2016 GOP presidential hopefuls to strut their stuff (sorry for the visual!) at the Iowa Freedom Summit. King is most recently “famous” for calling young Latino college students, who were sitting with the First Lady at the State of Union, “deportables”.
The Iowa Freedom Summit was a Very Important Event: one can tell because it has “freedom” in it and it is a “summit”. And IOWA!! The place of the first nominating contest because nothing says Bellwether like a state that is 98% white and which selected Mike Huckabee in 2008 and Rick Santorum in 2012 as the Republican standard bearers. Finger on the pulse of America, Iowa, finger on the pulse.
Eric Wolfson @EricWolfson
If ignorance is bliss, #IAFreedomSummit must be the happiest place on earth.
Watching the assault on our democracy, and on our common sense, unfold would be more entertaining if it were not for this sobering observation:
BWD @theonlyadult
One of these people might be the next president. Nothing funny about this #IAFreedomSummit
PLEASE don’t let that happen.
LOLGOP @LOLGOP
The one thing every Republican candidate seems to have in common with normal people is they don’t think Jeb Bush or Mitt can beat Hillary.
And with that, let’s follow the summit of freedumbs on Twitter …