The Early Bird Doesn't Always Get the Worm
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I'm an early bird.
I get up early.
I get to movies early and get my kids to events real early.
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I'm early for meetings. Early for my show.
I'm not only punctual — I admit it — I'm pathetic.
I just love early. The problem is, my wife doesn't love early. And she comes from a long line of folks who apparently don't flip over early either.
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I think a lot of them live in Iowa. Because, if these latest polls are right, the early birds just might not get the worm — or in this case, the win.
Mitt Romney was in Iowa long before any other Republican candidate — long before he even formally was a candidate. Jeez, it seems he lives there.
And for a good while, so did Hillary Clinton. Showing up at almost every diner — her husband at every diner she missed.
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You'd think the early birds would be entitled to a special.
But Iowans don't seem to find them so special.
I suspect because Iowans actually hate early birds. Just because a lot of them get up very early themselves, doesn't mean they flip over those who try to rub it in.
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Which is good news for relative latecomers like Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee and sadly confirms what my ever-tardy wife has long lectured: The movie doesn't end up any different if you show up late.
Which is what a lot of candidates will consider doing, four years from now.
Better late, I suspect, than never early… never again.
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