Author Topic: Romney wins in Iowa (Read 816 times)

St Jude Thaddeus · « **on:** January 04, 2012, 04:54:54 PM »

Mitt Romney celebrates GOP win; 2 rivals flounder

http://www.khou.com/news/Iowa-Paul-Santorum-Romney-lead-early-vote-136632753.html

The former Massachusetts governor was declared the winner of the Iowa caucuses in the wee hours Wednesday by just eight votes, bringing down the curtain on an improbable first act in the campaign to pick a candidate to challenge Obama in the fall.
The Iowa GOP said Romney got 30,015 votes, to 30,007 for Santorum, whose late surge carried him to a near win after months languishing in the depths of opinion polls.

Oh joy!

Telesphorus · « **Reply #1 on:** January 04, 2012, 05:30:39 PM »

It's incredible how openly biased the press has become.

Then again it's incredible that people can't see through Benedict XVI.

I'm no fan of Santorum, but I'm trying to figure out how losing by 8 votes in a Caucus justifies the use of the term "floundering."

s2srea · « **Reply #2 on:** January 04, 2012, 05:46:18 PM »

Quote from: Telesphorus

I'm no fan of Santorum, but I'm trying to figure out how losing by 8 votes in a Caucus justifies the use of the term "floundering."

I think they're referring to Bachmann and Perry.

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #3 on:** January 04, 2012, 08:36:55 PM »

The entire thing was rigged to make sure Ron Paul didn't win. A news reporter a came out a day or two before the caucus and said she had been given information from a top GOP official that they were going to make sure Ron Paul didn't win by offering large sums of money to those who were going to vote for him. Infowars predicted they'd let him finish third at best. And sure enough, a third place finish. These people aren't about to let someone like Ron Paul win, he stands for everything they're against. I also don't think those missing votes last night as well as Mitt Romney somehow edging Rick Santorum by eight votes all of a sudden was any coincidence.

I, for one, am glad Michelle Bachmann dropped out. She was ok at first even though I was never in her camp, but as she dropped in the polls she started getting desparate. She took cheap shots at Ron Paul like crazy, saying he woud make a "dangerous president" for his views on Iran and for his foreign policy as a whole. She also was rather contradictive of herself. During one debate, she said to Herman Cain regarding his "9-9-9" plan "if you turn those nines upside down, you've got the devil in the details" (an obvious reference to the 666). Then two or three months later, she praises his 9-9-9 plan. Heck, she couldn't even admit that she was low in the polls when asked.

As for everyone else in the race? Mitt Romney is a flip-flopper and overall another George Bush, Newt Gingrich is a closet liberal and also a cry-baby who whines as he sinks in the polls, Rick Perry is two-faced, John Huntsman is a joke, and Rick Santorum is obsessed with war.

So yeah, no matter who wins in 2012, as long as it's not Ron Paul (and it won't be), this country is on track to a nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr.