DES MOINES — Ron doesn’t understand. He did everything right. He completed the courtship ritual and displayed his plumage in the time-honored fashion. Now Iowa is supposed to waddle over and let him deposit his eggs. He bobbed and weaved and arranged his scavenged baubles into a pleasing triangular formation! He inflated his throat wattles — where are the Iowans? Where is his groundswell!
He came to Iowa. To all the counties. I believe the Iowa term for this is “a full Grassley.” Well, Ron did a full Grassley! “We’ve done it the right way,” he insisted in his West Des Moines headquarters on Saturday to a group of sup- and reporters who had been dazed into submission by hearing “Thunderstruck” play at a volume that should only be legal at rock concerts. “That’s the way this process is supposed to work.”