Nice.

derp.

frothy.

Let the mudslinging begin!

I applaud the headline.

Yes, but in 3rd place.....THROUGH HELL FIRE AND BRIMESTONE: IT'S RON PAUL!

Ugh, only proves what theocratic jackasses make up the GOP

That's just swell

A Santorum surge yields a Santorum surprise.

A hilarious result. American political expert and former judge of NBC reality programming, Piers Morgan, thinks that Santorum is likeable and admirable. Equally funny.

Is this really the best we can do America? We have over 300 million people and we can't find one decent person to lead us? Really?

I wonder if all the RINO Wonks at FauxNews will say that "Santorum winning in Iowa won't matter"....like they were doing with Ron Paul?

Faux News is a shill for Romney.

Strangely, the sharpest comment during the whole caucus coverage was from....Sarah Palin. She said the GOP better not marginalize Ron Paul supporters.

Wow....Palin is probably going to get a lot of hate mail/e-mail tomorrow

Yet Bachmann is still running.

WTF is wrong with that woman.

Didn't Murdoch tweet something about Santorum the other day?

Santorum - Huntsman would be the funniest campaign ticket name *ever*.

How many people does CNN need to say nothing? And I'm only counting Candy Crowley as one person.

At the moment Santorum leads Romney by a commanding 18 votes.

Unreal. I look forward to the rest of the news cycle this week pointing out that Rick Santorum actually believes birth control is aberrant and it should be a state prerogative to ban it.

I think Santorum had an amazing speech. It was genuine, laid out a tangible jobs plan, and showed a serious human side that is impossible to call fake.

/still hate everything about his GOP regressive neo-con religio-nut ways
//he's going to go far now that Gingrich has given him his sword to battle the Romney troll.
///Bachmann, Perry support will go to Santorum.

Fox News also projects that Newt Gingrich will finish fourth, followed by Rick Perry in fifth and Michele Bachmann in last place among the candidates who are competing there.

If Michele Bachmann is doing that bad, in crazy conservative Iowa she is toast.

So looks like Iowa might knock out Bachmann and Perry.

DBrandisNC: Didn't Murdoch tweet something about Santorum the other day?

Was it about Santorum coming out?

TheJoe03: Is this really the best we can do America? We have over 300 million people and we can't find one decent person to lead us? Really?

It's not that there are no decent people to lead those 300 million people.
It's that no decent person wants to be a leader and nobody who wants to lead people is decent.
Even if they are decent, the leadership role in the hierarchy will change that soon enough.

Oh goody, I may get to vote against this asshat again!

ACallForPeace: TheJoe03: Is this really the best we can do America? We have over 300 million people and we can't find one decent person to lead us? Really?

It's not that there are no decent people to lead those 300 million people.
It's that no decent person wants to be a leader and nobody who wants to lead people is decent.
Even if they are decent, the leadership role in the hierarchy will change that soon enough.

More to the point, the only thing Americans hate more than a crooked politician is an honest one.

Britney Spear's Speculum: Yet Bachmann is still running.

WTF is wrong with that woman.



This could take a while...

Heh - and the GOP was worried that RON PAUL would win Iowa.

caucus?! they hardly know us!

ok so everyone is going to go "oh this didn't count, because (blah blah blah)"

what I'm particularly interested in is the vote per dollar ratio

how much did Romney and his super-pacs spend for each vote he got?

from that, how much is he going to have to spend to win the significant caucuses, just to get the Rep nomination?

and, how pissed off, and switched-off, will the average punter be by the time the real race starts?

All the media, and that includes Fox News, is focusing on a "winner" in a contest that is going to come down to a handful of votes difference out of ~180,000 votes cast Its a statistical tie with the potential to be a absolute tie but I'm not seeing anyone present it that way, at least not yet.

Seems to me the story is this: the social conservative Santorum who spent 100% of his time/energy in social conservative Iowa manages a tie with a mormon who had up until a couple weeks ago completely ignored the state. I know that Santorum had been floating under the radar so long that this "surge" is novel but for the life of me I don't see how any level-headed analysis of the Iowa results doesn't have this being a clear win for the Romney campaign.

Santorum is more of the same from the Neo-cons...basically a bible thumping socialist.

The reason he surged so far ahead is that he was giving the support of the Evangelicals. NPR actually had a guest that called this out and that this is how it would turn out a few days ago when I was listening.

I didn't believe it when I heard it, but I'll be damned. If there's one thing the Evangelicals do, it's vote.

I'm still trying to understand what a Team Santorum looks like:

http://twitter.com/teamsantorum

I like how getting just about 25% makes someone a winner. It's the equivalent of the "participation award" in politics.

TheJoe03: Is this really the best we can do America? We have over 300 million people and we can't find one decent person to lead us? Really?

Perhaps it has something to do with your love of war, religion, guns and money?

/sad

Boxcutta: How many people does CNN need to say nothing? And I'm only counting Candy Crowley as one person.

I see what you did there.

/I'm uncomfortable every time she fills up my HDTV screen

//Pan back, camera-guy, pan back!

So how long after Santorum took the White House would Dan Savage be declared a terrorist and disappeared?

Dadoody: If there's one thing the Evangelicals do, it's vote.

and breed, apparently

The GOP made their bed and now they can lie in it.
You lead people along, letting them think that issues like gay rights and abortion weren't already finalized. You lead them along so you could keep their votes. And now they've continued acting under that delusion when you need them not to.

Good farking job. Now open wide, and suck that Santorum down you worthless shiats.

ACEllis: I think Santorum had an amazing speech. It was genuine, laid out a tangible jobs plan, and showed a serious human side that is impossible to call fake.

Half the Santorum speech was talking about his grandfather which was nothing but a calculated shot across the bow of Romney's family/religion. I understand what you saw/experienced and it was a very well-crafted speech but "genuine" is not something I'd allow it.

/NTTAWWT

//Frothy

dahmers love zombie: Google now lists Santorum as the winner by 18 votes, with 100 percent reporting.


From 538:
According to Google and CNN, Rick Santorum leads Mitt Romney by 18 votes - 29,944 to 29,926 - with two precincts yet to report results.

"Was already clear, but GOP establishment reaction to Paul tonight confirms that party's most important issue is promotion of perpetual war." - Radley Balko (new window)

Definitely not a paul fan but the anathema to him has to be based on either the war on terror or the war on drugs. Maybe abortion plays in a bit, but I haven't seen mention of it this cycle (granted I see a heavily filtered version since I don't live in the US).