Today, oil broke the $100 a barrel mark.

We are facing a recession, a housing decline, a credit crisis, and the the largest gap between rich and poor since the Jazz Age.

And Iowans are supposed to listen to some musclehead from California, who has a gym larger than most Iowan's homes, about who to pick for President?

Your quotes from Norris nauseated me. Did he expect the audience to empathize? It really must suck to be so rich, when so many fellow Americans are facing foreclosure, job loss, unaffordable healthcare, and - oh, yeah - a quagmire in the Middle East.

I will never get it.

Why do we give a crap what a few thousand corn farmers think. The last time I checked their votes were as worthless as mine. What would the professional morons be saying if the Caucus were in Chicago or Baton Rouge or Oakland?

This isn't about "populism". It's about faith. Chuck Norris is as far from the populist ideal as you can get. If he truly has all the things he describes, he is exactly the type of person the real populists would avoid. How many Iowans are going to go out and buy a yaught? He should be the one they are condemning for phony populism rather then Edwards.

This is about religion, plain and simple. Chuck Norris is a known theocrat. I used to watch TBN and him and that ex-supermodel would do ads for wanting to restore America's "christian heritage" to the classroom. He condemns those who criticize Huckabees former profession but does anyone really think it isn't the reason he signed on to the campaign? Especially given that most of the republican candidates all have pretty much the same economic agenda anyway?

Was the "Chuck-strich" still sporting that ludicrous dye job?

I don't suppose his acting's improved any, either - he couldn't persuade me he was warm if you set his pants leg on fire.

You've always been the caretaker here, Mr. Torrance.

Quite a nightmare.