Steve King for President?

With the finesse of a three ton boulder, Steve King has taken his congressional vacation and used it to have a 'secret' closed door meeting with some movers and shakers of the state of South Carolina.

Though the fairly short 'will he run' circus for the soon to be vacated U.S. senate seat has finally ended with the clear winner being Democratic contender Bruce Braley, who on top of having no challenger established three months after declaring his intentions to run, would also have my vote for in a heartbeat over Rep. King in a state wide election. In the wake of this decision, Rep. King chose not the route of bowing out of the spotlight, but rather is window shopping for an ever bigger spot light.

The theory goes as such, An Iowa native could have a good showing at the countries first in the nation caucus. Then, skip the Granite State on the theory that they will vote for a moderate McCain/Romney look alike, and then do as well as a southern bell a la Gingrich or Huckabee. Of course, this game plan has little to do with actually winning the Presidential nomination and a lot more to do with another topic that catches Steve King's fancy, Steve King.

Donald Trump has to visit Iowa whenever The Apprentice is getting ready to announce another season. Sarah Palin hints that she may run for this office or that right when it's time for a TV deal or when she's finished writing another book.

With so much xenophobic and loathing rhetoric, he never can really decide which statements he needs to stand by fully and which ones he hopes people accidentally attribute to the writer Stephen King. Perhaps he is just tired of pressing 1 for English, but Rep. King appears to have nothing but contempt for people who come here illegally. Some examples of him making or defending lewd and crude statements on a variety of topics can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, or here. Most of these intentional slips of the tongue have something to do with immigrants, be it likening them to cattle or stating as an authentic fact that 99% of them are drug dealers because he saw a Mexican once lighting a cigarette. He knows, he did spend a few days on the border. I won't ask how he became such as expert on other subject matters like dog fighting and rape.

What I'm trying to say, the message I hope you leave this article with is this: Don't vote for him. Don't vote for him in the South Carolina primary, don't vote for him in the Iowa Caucus, don't even vote for him in the Ames Straw Poll. My guess/hope is that by this point Steve King has to say something that would make your senile southern born great grandfather cringe to stay in the spotlight, and propping himself up by seeking a higher position as a means of obtaining said spotlight. With the senate race and governorship off the list, a presidential bid is the next logical move.

Perhaps this will launch a more lucrative national platform for him, truly following in the footsteps of that aforementioned Palin, Huckabee, Gingrich, and others. He could have a Sunday talk show where he talks about how bad the landscaping industry is or how he wish he knew how to work the parental controls on his TV so he could skip Telemundo. I'm not an advocate for illegal immigration by any stretch, but the lack of decency when addressing the immigration as well as other issues and a general 'looking down his nose' attitude that is reflected in his repeated, unapologetic comments over the years makes me have about as much respect for him as a legislator as I would have for a Mexican drug dealer as a pharmacist.

Alas, I give the man himself the last word about anyone who would call him brash or arrogant;

"My comments are anything but ignorant. They may have been the best informed in the entire United States Congress." - Steve King 7/25/13