Iowa Caucus Republican Tie

Oh, Brian, how I loathe this cheap-looking tie. Yes, you took what was perhaps in conservative, Fundamentalist Iowa, a "fashion risk", wearing a deep navy tie with "faggy" rose-colored stripes, like some kind of "girly-man" might wear. At least the stripes were skinny, a meek defender might say, not big and fat, and maybe you thought they were more of a purplish color, not so pink. But how would that conservative Christian guns-n-butter voter defend the cheap quality of that fabric, huh? Oh yeah...Wal*Mart.