Priorities

I'm sure all us political junkies have been having a good time what with all the gasbaggery flyin' around about the Iowa "ya gotta be an idiot to be a Repuglican" Straw Poll, but there were things goin' on in Iowa last Saturday that were actually important, and which attracted far greater public interest than a buncha pygmy losers. Rightly so, too.

There were 14,117 votes cast for those clowns statewide, which is hilarious when you think of all the money (and watermelons, in Huckabee's case) spent, all the media attention and hyped importance of the event.

14,117 is pretty small potatoes compared to the 24,000+ folks in attendance, in a town of 8200, at the Knoxville Nationals on the same day.

Let's keep things in perspective. All the free-floatin' lyin' hot air that all the politicians can put out, and it's a lot, can't hold a candle for excitement to a buncha 1200-lb, 850-hp little race cars goin' sideways on a dirt half-mile at over a hunnert miles an hour.

Them Iowans ain't stupid. The pols'll be there any old time, and they're pretty useless anyway. The Nationals come but once a year. Priorities.