Iowa loves … who?

If you guessed Scott Walker, you’d be … WRONG!

Many of the GOP presidential hopefuls gathered last weekend for the Iowa GOP’s Lincoln Day Dinner. It was a crowded dais, to be sure, with the multitude of candidates (how many are there now?!) in attendance each taking a turn at the microphone. Among those speaking were Rick Perry, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Bobby Jindal and Ben Carson.

(Oh, and Lindsey Graham was there, too. Feel free to laugh or cry over that one.)

According to the Des Moines Register, it was Carly Fiorina who stole the show.

“She was like a fireball,” said one dinner guest, Tanya Manatt, a 43-year-old Johnston resident who owns a bridal boutique. “She had a lot of energy, and she’s not intimidated.”

Carly had a great, not-so-subtle dig at the spouse of a certain Democrat candidate:

“I was asked whether a woman’s hormones prevent her from serving in the Oval Office. OK, ladies, this is a test: Can you think of a single instance in which a man’s judgment was clouded by his hormones? Including in the Oval Office?”

And the crowd was left wanting more. According to the Register, dinner organizers cut off Carly’s microphone at the 10-minute mark … and were soundly booed.

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