Going down in flames

Just to let you know how out of touch the GOP is here in the Midwest, I give you the Iowa Republican Party:

Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican who has long led the conservative forces of his state, has been denied his customary position as a voting delegate to the Republican National Convention -- and it's being done by an even more conservative bunch.

It's hard to find a more traditional conservative GOP stalwart than Grassley. But he isn't insane. So he does have that problem.