“Iowa, for good reason, for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord, should be the first caucus and primary,” Richardson, New Mexico’s governor, said at the Northwest Iowa Labor Council Picnic. ~Des Moines Register

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Knowing our governor, you almost have to think that it was a big joke at the expense of the current nominating system.  After all, many of the current system’s defenders do sometimes talk as if God and the Constitution both mandated Iowan primacy in American presidential politics.  Then again, knowing our governor, I would guess that this was a classic example of Richardson telling the audience whatever it was he thought they wanted to hear.  He threw in the Constitution and God to cover all the bases–it’s patriotic and religious and absolutely sycophantic.  If he were speaking to a group of die-hard war supporters, he might have said that keeping Iowa in first place was essential to defeating jihadism.