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I will disclose at the top of this post that I am an alumnus of the University of Minnesota. The University of Iowa is Minnesota's rival. And thus, I am predisposed against people who root for Iowa for any reason.

But when Carly Fiorina declared Friday afternoon that she was rooting for Iowa in college football's Rose Bowl, despite being from California, that's not even why it was bad.

It was bad because Iowa is playing her alma mater, Stanford University.

That's right: Carly Fiorina is conveniently rooting against her own school and for the school from the state that just happens to be politically important to her current ambitions.

You almost have to give Fiorina credit for the brazenness of this pandering — the shamelessness of her sports allegiance being available to the bidder with the most political currency. And perhaps her campaign thought this would be kind of a fun thing to do. "Nobody would seriously think she's actually rooting for Iowa," you might picture her staffers saying to themselves.

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But then you have to come to your senses and realize that this was just a ridiculous thing to do, especially considering how little chance Fiorina has of actually winning the Republican nomination. Pandering on political issues is one thing, but our sports teams should be sacred.

Changing one's position on immigration for political expediency is forgivable; you are supposed to be doing what your constituents want, after all. But doing it on sports teams demonstrates a character flaw that, to any sports fan, simply cannot be overlooked.

And it wasn't.

This one is from a top strategist for Ohio Gov. John Kasich: