Iowa, you cowards.

So no surprise, Iowa caucused on Thursday. What was a surprise was that Romney lost Iowa. It was a close race, why should it have come as much of a surprise? Well I was on the ground in Des Moines for the days leading up to the caucus, and genuinely felt the result would be very different.

You see, Mike Huckabee isn't fooling anyone, even after winning Iowa, no one thinks this guy is gonna be the next president, Mike Huckabee is no one's real candidate of choice, he was an alternative.

In unofficial exit polling after Thursday's caucuses, it was suggested that when asked who would make a better president, voters consented 6-1 that Romney was a better candidate for president than any other. Why the heck didn't they vote their conscience?

If you had the chance to attend any of the precincts caucus events, chances are you got a good taste of religious bigotry. Mike Huckabee and his supporters turned this into a religious popularity race, with many speeches turning into blatant, unveiled anti-mormon rants as opposed to political arguing. Unfortunately, many of the Romney stump speeches were merely pleas to vote according to your conscience and the issues and leave religion out of it. Why didn't Iowans vote their conscience, cause this race wasn't about politics at all, it was about a population who didn't want to think beyond the generalizations and has made midwesterners look like fools because of it.

You take it to the western states and you'll never hear masses exiting the polls saying "well I voted for a douche bag, but at least it wasn't for the mormon" you go to the eastern states, northern states, any states but the midwest, and such an exclamation would be absurd and certainly frowned on. Shame on you Mike Huckabee for incubating such sentiments and shame on you Iowa for being blind enough to run into his open, blubbering arms.

Comments were made from Huckabee supporters, when asked why they voted for him their responses included "because he's like one of us, he doesn't seem shiny and polished" Why, dear Iowa would it ever seem appropriate to want a president in a flannel shirt. I don't want someone like Huck, or in the words of his supporters, 'like me,' running the country, I want someone with experience, a professional who can handle the pressures of the office. Not a buffoon who would make Bush's depth of political understanding look like Lincoln. How's about you rise up from the ignorant guy who hangs out at yer casey's gas station and come into the age of CEO and executive and actually become respectable again.

Of course 6 to 1 think Romney's a better president, it's an elmer fudd vs Clark Kent, but Iowa wouldn't vote what they know they should have.

Iowa, you cowards.