# Rep. Steve King, the disgrrace of the Hawkeye State (Iowa) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 14, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676 "2019-08-14T21:59:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/21 "2019-08-15T14:01:04Z")
True, that. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/22 "2019-08-15T14:14:31Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Which part of him isn’t moronic? The part based on what I said in my first post regarding being for _certain_ cases of abortions. He’s right about that. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/23 "2019-08-15T14:19:50Z")
If he meant that he could have said THAT. Not that rape and incest are a key survival strategy. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/24 "2019-08-15T15:34:36Z")
IF Steve King gets to be President (and that’s a very big IF) I hope he has novelist Stephen King as Veep. The King-King horror show. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/25 "2019-08-15T17:58:53Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > IF Steve King gets to be President (and that’s a very big IF) I hope he has novelist Stephen King as Veep. The King-King horror show. This morning on Facebook, from the novelist Stephen King: “Let’s get 1 thing straight. I’m not THAT Steve King.” ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/26 "2019-08-15T18:20:25Z")
Steve King is human shit. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/27 "2019-08-15T18:33:15Z")
Just waiting for Louie Gohmert to say “Hold mah beer, y’all.” ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/28 "2019-08-15T19:42:15Z")
I actually appreciate the accidental(?) typo in the thread title because it made me think of [Thurl Ravenscroft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Ravenscroft) — and “the disgrrrrrrACE of the Hawkeye State” has a certain ring to it. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/29 "2019-08-15T20:07:39Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > I actually appreciate the accidental(?) typo in the thread title because it made me think of [Thurl Ravenscroft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Ravenscroft) — and “the disgrrrrrrACE of the Hawkeye State” has a certain ring to it. You’re a mean one, Mr. King. You really are a heel You’re as cuddly as a cactus You’re as charming as an eel Mr. King You’re a bad banana With a greasy black peel (Sung by Thurl Ravenscroft.) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/30 "2019-08-15T20:19:32Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > This morning on Facebook, from the novelist Stephen King: “Let’s get 1 thing straight. I’m not THAT Steve King.” I’m betting he has a macro set to say that whenever the politician opens his mouth. ‘I’m the one who knows the horrific things he writes are fiction.’ ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/31 "2019-08-15T20:25:22Z")
When you’ve lost Liz Cheney … [Liz Cheney calls for Steve King to go after he argues rape and incest played a key role in history | Salon.com](https://www.salon.com/2019/08/15/liz-cheney-calls-for-steve-king-to-go-after-he-argues-rape-and-incest-played-a-key-role-in-history/) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/32 "2019-08-15T20:36:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > When you’ve lost Liz Cheney … [https://www.salon.com/2019/08/15/liz-cheney-calls-for-steve-king-to-go-after-he-argues-rape-and-incest-played-a-key-role-in-history/](https://www.salon.com/2019/08/15/liz-cheney-calls-for-steve-king-to-go-after-he-argues-rape-and-incest-played-a-key-role-in-history/) “They came for the communists and I did not speak out because I’m not a communist They came for the liberals and I did not speak out because I’m not a liberal They came for the blacks and I did not speak out because I’m not black They came for the immigrants and I did not speak out because I’m not an immigrant Then Steve King said something bad about women and I spoke up because this affected me personally” ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/33 "2019-08-15T20:43:00Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > So he’s going for the inbred bastard vote, huh? Is that the majority in Iowa? Hey, hey, let’s not tar _all_ the residents of Iowa with that filthy Steve King brush. His district is western and northwestern Iowa, more like eastern Nebraska and southeastern South Dakota than (most of) the rest of the state. Why, last November we happily kicked two other Republican congressmen to the curb, giving us three Democratic Representatives (and two of them women!) to make up for Slimy Steve. There are plenty of “deplorables” in Iowa happy to vote for Trump/King/whoever’s the GOP candidate, but we’ve got some decent folk around here, too. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/34 "2019-08-15T20:50:39Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > I actually appreciate the accidental(?) typo in the thread title because it made me think of [Thurl Ravenscroft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Ravenscroft) — and “the disgrrrrrrACE of the Hawkeye State” has a certain ring to it. > [@Atamasama](#): > > You’re a mean one, Mr. King. > You really are a heel > You’re as cuddly as a cactus > You’re as charming as an eel > Mr. King > You’re a bad banana > With a greasy black peel > > (Sung by Thurl Ravenscroft.) Grim grinning posts come out to socialiiiiiiiize. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/35 "2019-08-15T21:13:18Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > When you’ve lost Liz Cheney … [https://www.salon.com/2019/08/15/liz-cheney-calls-for-steve-king-to-go-after-he-argues-rape-and-incest-played-a-key-role-in-history/](https://www.salon.com/2019/08/15/liz-cheney-calls-for-steve-king-to-go-after-he-argues-rape-and-incest-played-a-key-role-in-history/) Liz Cheney should get a grip, and figure out that this is not her party. This is the Steve King party. He speaks for the Trumpsters. Liz is the outlier here. She’s the one who will be drummed out of the party if she keeps up attacking the Republican base this way. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/36 "2019-08-15T21:25:03Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > Hey, hey, let’s not tar _all_ the residents of Iowa with that filthy Steve King brush. His district is western and northwestern Iowa, more like eastern Nebraska and southeastern South Dakota than (most of) the rest of the state. Why, last November we happily kicked two other Republican congressmen to the curb, giving us three Democratic Representatives (and two of them women!) to make up for Slimy Steve. > > There are plenty of “deplorables” in Iowa happy to vote for Trump/King/whoever’s the GOP candidate, but we’ve got some decent folk around here, too. Yep. Mr. King represents my hometown, and I’ve noticed the defense of him by friends, family, and neighbors has become more sparse every time he opens his mouth. It doesn’t help his cause when certain people are happy to point out how he’s doing exactly nothing for his constituents except happily screwing them over. Last I checked, he has three separate challengers for the Republican nomination - almost no one in his district likes him, but he’s better than a dirty Democrat. If his challengers manage to not split the vote, he hopefully won’t even make it to the general campaign. That would make this Iowa ex-pat VERY happy. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/37 "2019-08-15T21:30:01Z")
[Steve King isn’t the disgrace of the Hawkeye State; he’s just their Representative.](https://apnews.com/2d5bd2ec9e824cd4b002e5fa73ae4825) > [@](#): > > Rep. Steve King’s most recent insensitive remarks about rape are the kind that have doomed political candidates elsewhere, but some fellow Iowa Republicans say it’s possible they actually could do more good than harm for the embattled congressman’s re-election chances by reinforcing his credentials as a social conservative. > > King, who faces steep competition just to win the GOP primary in his bid for a 10th term, made the comment Tuesday before a conservative group. > [@](#): > > Shane Vander Hart, an Iowa political consultant and conservative writer, said King has plenty of problems as he faces a contested primary with little campaign money. But Vander Hart notes Republicans hold a 70,000-voter registration edge in the districts, and many of those people — including his top rival for the nomination — agree with King on most issues, including that abortion should be illegal in all cases. > > “This is not some silver bullet that’s going to kill his campaign,” Vander Hart said. “The overall principle of what he’s saying, that’s what pro-lifers believe.” > > Craig Williams, the Republican Party chairman in Carroll County, said support for King is strong and many Republicans think the congressman’s views aren’t fairly portrayed by the media. There’s a lot more backing up the view that this prolly won’t have any real negative effect on King’s support at the polls, too. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/38 "2019-08-15T22:05:19Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Republicans-Complain about “The Squad”-elect buffoons like this guy. Yeah. Uh huh. Like if The Squad or any other librul Demoncrat forces these backwoods inbred sister fucking Nazi leaning white hood wearing motherfuckers to vote for these other backwoods inbred sister fucking Nazi leaning white hood wearing motherfuckers. Sure. Whatever they say. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/39 "2019-08-16T00:48:32Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > Hey, hey, let’s not tar _all_ the residents of Iowa with that filthy Steve King brush. His district is western and northwestern Iowa, more like eastern Nebraska and southeastern South Dakota than (most of) the rest of the state. Why, last November we happily kicked two other Republican congressmen to the curb, giving us three Democratic Representatives (and two of them women!) to make up for Slimy Steve. > > There are plenty of “deplorables” in Iowa happy to vote for Trump/King/whoever’s the GOP candidate, but we’ve got some decent folk around here, too. Tar? I thought that was North Carolina. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/40 "2019-08-16T15:05:10Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Liz Cheney should get a grip, and figure out that this is not her party. This is the Steve King party. He speaks for the Trumpsters. Liz is the outlier here. She’s the one who will be drummed out of the party if she keeps up attacking the Republican base this way. Nah, Liz Cheney is a gigantic piece of shit as well. She fits right in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676.md?page=3)