Iowa Bolsters Romney
President Perry (?) should have followed President Bachmann who just announced her exit from the bid to seek GOP nomination for the 2012 presidential race, Wednesday morning after a sixth-place finish in Iowa. She stated, “Last night, the people of Iowa spoke with a very clear voice. And so I have decided to stand aside,” during a morning media briefing at a Marriott hotel.
I must credit Bachmann for having the intelligence to understand that America is too liberal for her extreme views. Rick Perry does not get it though, despite a fifth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses. After he won only 10 percent of the vote in Iowa he had said that he would return to Texas "to determine whether there is a path forward," and apparently he thinks there is. The lure of the word ‘President’ is too tempting to be abandoned so easily? Perhaps he is encouraged by the showing of his namesake Santorum, who is as extreme as Perry if not more.
This GOP race is a circus, where everyone who threw a hat in the ring got the chance to be at the top for 15 minutes of fame, including the former disgraced House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Of course Gingrich at one time was measuring the drapes of the White House claiming himself as the shoo-in for the nomination. What chutzpah! Of course now he says he was Romney-boated!
The only one who looks Presidential among the clowns is Mitt Romney (I am excluding Ron Paul here, since he has demonstrated to be a man of principle, but he is too extreme for our Military-Industrial complex), nevertheless, the GOP bosses cannot stand him. It is true that in Iowa Romney just scrapped through with eight votes over Santorum. What needs to be taken into account is that Romney had initially decided to pass Iowa, because of its small population and therefore less importance in the overall nomination process. Santorum on the other hand put all he had in this peanut size enclave, knowing that if he can’t make it here he can’t make it anywhere else.
Iowa is as white as the snow drips from sky. Evangelical extremists form over 50% of the voter base here. If a Bachmann beating extremist, who traversed length and breadth of this potato country does not do well here, where else would he do it? That Mitt won here at all, in this backward right-wing dominated state, speaks volume.
The RNC has to open its arm to Romney, at some point, I am sure. The earlier they do; the better.
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