Shocker. Romney is the first Republican candidate to win two states in the 2012 election cycle, with Gingrich in second, Santorum slopping into third, and Ron Paul in last place.
UPDATE: Here’s Romney’s Official Victory Tweet. I prefer the Unofficial Romney Victory Tweet, myself.
Now we’re just waiting on the speeches. I expect Romney might be first. Will he sing again*? Will he gloat**? Will he even mention Gingrich’s name***? All the answers will be revealed very soon.
UPDATE AGAIN: Exit polls are indicating Romney could be up by 14 percent. MSNBC has some granular information about the turnout. Romney is dominating in just about every demographic except those voters who consider themselves to be “very conservative.” Gingrich owns those voters. The teabaggers still haven’t embraced Romney. Gingrich also leads in evangelicals and social-issue voters. These are not good numbers for Romney as he heads into the general election; he needs to convince the teabaggers—those who are obsessed with small government, unless it’s controlling the genitals of Americans—that he’s their guy.
* I hope not.
** I hope so.
*** I doubt it.
Wait, didn’t he win Iowa on election night?
Winner-take-all. 50 delegates. That’s a chunk.
Will, it looks like your friend Ron Paul will get 7% of the vote. They may be kooks, but even they aren’t as nuts as you.
Will is surprised, because he has been saying all along that Romney would be out of the race by now.
Romney ended up losing Iowa by a handful of votes, as you well know, which resulted in a massive swing of ONE DELEGATE. Florida, on the other hand, is a real state.
And you, Will, are the biggest boob of all time.
@4 how’s your Euro Funds holding up, Fnarf?
@5, quite a bit better than your sanity, if this unusually weak diversionary attempt, even for you, is anything to go by.
Look! I got a haircut! It’s raining in Philadelphia! Your dog has fleas!
@6 Haircut and a new outfit! Capital!
@7, it’s true, I’ve got me some fly new clothes.
To no one’s great surprise, once things got out of the deeply insane South Carolina Republic of Jesus Christ the Lord of Us Specially and Not You Heathens, Romney’s Mormonism was no longer enough of a handicap to make up for the fact that Newt Gingrich is a steaming pile of human shit with a very public record of horribleness decades long.
@9, don’t forget the parallel irony of the Tea Party rallying behind a big-dollar insider Washington lobbyist.
I’ve hated Will since 2007, shortly after the first Freaky Friday, when we both had Slog posting privileges for a day, during which he distinguished himself by being boring, stupid and wrong, as usual, although I defended him at the time. But that evening, I met him in person for the first time, and it all clicked. I was pinned in a bar booth by him for a while, and after ten minutes it became apparent that everything he knows is not only wrong, but obnoxiously offensive.
His total knowledge on all topics all balled together would fit easily inside the cloaca of a Costa Rican tree frog. And he won’t shut up about it, either.
@8 I don’t fear small pox, but I feared that link. And then I click and yah, that’s just ugly. I guess your tribute band does have to suit up, though.
@12, actually I like to think that my entire life is something of a tribute to the awesomeness of the Osmonds. I could never in a million years be cool enough to hang with Laurie Partridge.
See, here’s Will tweeting “he’s a goner” about Romney, AFTER tonight’s results:
https://twitter.com/#!/WillSeattle/statu…
Credibility = zero.
Earlier he was twitting about the “Droid virus that’s spreading like wildfire today”, which is (a) Android, not Droid, and (b) bullshit made up by Symantec to sell more useless cellphone antivirus product. Compare
https://twitter.com/#!/WillSeattle/statu…
with
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/21/…
He twits stuff like this a hundred times a day. It’s truly remarkable.
COSTCO CHICKEN MEME! *snicker*