Romney Ekes Past Santorum to Win Iowa By NEIL KING JR. And PATRICK O'CONNOR
DES MOINES, Iowa—Mitt Romney pulled out a razor-thin victory by just eight votes in the Iowa caucuses, edging out Rick Santorum and opening the Republican primary season with a dose of momentum going into a New Hampshire primary he is heavily favored to win.
Mr. Santorum's performance was in some ways more remarkable, as the former Pennsylvania senator vaulted to the top just weeks after he had been little more than a footnote in the race. By effectively tying Mr. Romney, he made at least a tentative case for himself as the conservative alternative to the front-running former Massachusetts governor. Still, many Republicans don't believe Mr. Santorum has the resources for a drawn-out campaign.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul put together a strong third-place finish, assembling an unusual coalition that relied in part on an influx of independents into the GOP race..................>>>>.................>>>>................http://online.wsj.com/article/.....J_Home_largeHeadline
Rick Perry $478.40 per vote, Mitt Romney at $154.90, Ron Paul at $103.30, Newt Gingrich at $89.84, Rick Santorum at just $20.50.
Perry got screwed! Mitt got what he paid for... Paul paid for first and got third... The Newt got what he deserved... and Santorum got a bargain!
Michele Bachmann paid $3.95 per vote... if she spent a million dollars per Iowan, she still wouldn't have won.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Rick Santorum reiterated his belief that states should have the right to outlaw contraception during an interview with ABC News yesterday, saying, “The state has a right to do that, I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is not a constitutional right, the state has the right to pass whatever statues they have.”
Santorum has long opposed the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling “that invalidated a Connecticut law banning contraception” and has also pledged to completely defund federal funding for contraception if elected president.
This is the best that the Republicans can put forth as Presidential material??? What an A$$!
"American Women... Vote for me... and become a baby factory!"
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
I liked this story that was on the front of the USA Today this morning (you know, a paper that gets a couple more readers than the local leftist rag)...
Three rivals lead pack By Jackie Kucinich and Richard Wolf, USA TODAY
DES MOINES — Iowa Republicans delivered a split decision Tuesday as the first votes were cast in the 2012 presidential race, giving little-known Rick Santorum almost equal standing with Mitt Romney as Republicans head to New Hampshire.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, defeated Santorum by just 8 votes, when all precincts reported in at 2:40 a.m. ET today. Republicans also gave Texas Rep. Ron Paul a ticket out of Iowa but made the contest tougher for second-tier finishers Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry. The Texas governor told supporters late Tuesday night that he would return home to "decide the best path forward." By favoring a conservative, a moderate and a libertarian in nearly equal doses, visitors to the state's 1,774 precincts did little to clear up what has been a topsy-turvy contest to choose President Obama's opponent next fall.
...and that is even a different story than the one they actually had on the front page of the paper this morning, which had the sub-headline... "With no big winner, Paul, Romney, Santorum head to N.H."
The fact that Romney had the money, big-name endorsements, an army of paid and volunteer workers and has been running for president for at least 5 years ---- he could only muster the same 25% of the vote that he got in 2008. And yet he has the nerve to say that Santorum is unelectable.
Now admittedly Santorum is a bit far to the right on some issues for some people -- but I do give him credit for standing true to his beliefs. If you cast a vote for Mitt Romney -- which Mitt Romney will you end up with?
Mitt Romney's symbol should be a windsock ---- changing direction as the wind shifts.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
Now admittedly Santorum is a bit far to the right on some issues for some people -- but I do give him credit for standing true to his beliefs.
Santorumisms
1) ANNUL ALL SAME-SEX MARRIAGES: Arguing that gay relationships “destabilize” society, 2) ‘I’M FOR INCOME INEQUALITY’: “They talk about income inequality. I’m for income inequality,” 3) CONTRACEPTION IS ‘A LICENSE TO DO THINGS’: Santorum has pledged to repeal all federal funding for contraception and allow the states to outlaw birth control, 4) GAY SOLDIERS ‘CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN CLOSE QUARTERS’: During an appearance on Fox News Sunday in October, Santorum defended his support for Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell by arguing that gay soldiers would disrupt the military because “they’re in close quarters, they live with people, they obviously shower with people.” 5) OBAMA SHOULD OPPOSE ABORTION BECAUSE HE’S BLACK 6) WE DON’T NEED FOOD STAMPS BECAUSE OBESITY RATES ARE SO HIGH 7) ABORTION EXCEPTIONS TO PROTECT WOMEN’S HEALTH ARE ‘PHONY 8) HEALTH REFORM WILL KILL MY CHILD 9) UNINSURED AMERICANS SHOULD SPEND LESS ON CELL-PHONE BILLS 10) INSURERS SHOULD DISCRIMINATE AGAINST PEOPLE WITH PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS
Just your typical wacked Right Wing Nut.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
when they say a state bans it....it means your insurance wont pay and neither will the public insurance pay....so what....make other arrangements---it requires more thought than ordering an F'EN pizza...are folks that STUPID AND LAZY????
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
The Iowa Caucus' Real Results: Hardly Anybody Voted, And Nobody Won Anything First Posted: 01/ 4/12 06:06 PM ET Updated: 01/ 4/12 06:09 PM ET
So, with the Iowa caucuses in the books, our attention turns to the matter of who "won" last night. Technically, the "winner" is Mitt Romney, who eked out a plurality of the votes cast, by an eight-vote margin. But, as many are noting, Rick Santorum was perhaps the biggest "winner," relatively speaking, because his bare-bones, on-the-cheap retail operation came within a hair of besting the big-spending, Super-PAC enabled Romney. And of course, Ron Paul, who doubled up his 2008 total but only managed a third place finish, was nevertheless acting like a winner last night as well.
And yet, this was an election that was decided by a teensy fraction of the available humans in Iowa who could come around and cast a vote last night. This year's Iowa Caucus is being billed as one of the best ever -- a record turnout, in fact. But if last night was a record turnout, then the Iowa caucuses are some sort of "tallest hobbit" contest.
The numbers tell the story: of the 2,250,423 voters in the state (using the higher voting-eligible population), only 147,255 came out last night. And of those, only 122,255 voted in the Republican contest, for a turnout percentage of 5.4 percent. And if any of the hype about Democrats, Occupiers, Anarchists, interlopers, and stray ACORN activists (those that haven't been secreted off to Bagram Air Force Base for indefinite detention) -- all voting on the GOP side to gum up the works -- is true, it's possible that there was an even smaller percentage of sincere GOP voters.
And former Massachusetts Gov. Romney won by 8 votes, a percentage of the voting population that even Wolfram Alpha cannot calculate into a percentage that my mathematically-challenged mind can handle.
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