I'd say South Carolina is more of a digestive track than a womb and that when it is finished "straining and squatting," you are left not with a baby, but a giant, steaming turd.

Could you elaborate on "he's bought a team of experts unparalleled in American politics"?

@1: You are so, so right.

Obama is beating Jabba the Tea Bagger in current polls by 11 points. Newt's unfavorability rating is 51%, the highest of any candidate. As much as I wish for a Obama to get a chance to send this evil-doer back to the swamps of Georgia with his forked tail between his legs, I doubt he'll get a chance. SC is an outlier state just like NH and Iowa, but because of its population of ignorant racists. The Newt-Man will be flash-fried like the greasy reptile delicacies we enjoy in the South on Super Tuesday (didn't get on the ballot in VA).

Then, on Saturday, January 21, everyone went to the polls, and out of all of the heat and effluvia and stench, a giant head emerged.

For some reason, this line at first made me think of this. And then, this.

Oh please, please, please let Gingrich gain the upper hand. He's the Republican Party unhinged like the jaw of a snake. It's viscious teeth aimed down it's own throat, choking on a crocodile of blind hate and ignorance, tail thrashing until the end. The end being Obama's re-election.

Is it any wonder that when the denizens of the world's other civilized countries are not mocking us, they're giving one another grave looks?

You obviously aren't willing to read any history on Gingrinch or you'd know he's the furthest thing from a racist, and was preaching African-American inclusivity in the Republican Party, in the deep South, back in the 1980s, when the Democrats were still the party of the Confederacy.

I suggest reading, "The Pact" to get up to speed.

http://www.amazon.com/Pact-Clinton-Gingr…

You are giving SC too much credit . They were not going to vote for a Mormon and Newt has kept his conversion to catholism low profile. He won cause they thought they were voting for another red neck baptist.

@8. if he's not a racist does that make his pandering to racists better or worse?

@ Supreme: "the 1980s, when the Democrats were still the party of the Confederacy." Uhhh, get your decades straight. By the end of the 1960s, the Democrats had abandoned all vestiges of segregation within their party. They suffered dearly at the polls, as LBJ predicted.

As to the original post: Well done. My only quibble is with the dissing of Iowa. Basically, every race is different. For the Democrats last go round, neither Iowa, nor New Hampshire, nor any other state was too special. After the first few races, it was obvious that Edwards was competitive, but couldn't win. After that, it became clear that Clinton was going to be very close, but statistically, over the long call, she was going to come up just short of Obama. She could hand in there and hope for a stumble (even a little one) but otherwise, she was going to lose.

2004 was different. Iowa was the key to that race. In Iowa, each candidate has the unusual ability to talk personally with voters. No other state offers that. Some might see it as a bad thing, but it gave Kerry a chance to prove that he was a capable, strong speaker (even if he was a bit wooden). That was the key. Once he took Iowa, the race was essentially over. Dean's scream just made it go faster.

@ Supreme: "the 1980s, when the Democrats were still the party of the Confederacy." Get your decades straight. By the end of the 1960s, the Democrats had abandoned all vestiges of segregation within their party. They suffered dearly at the polls, as LBJ predicted.

As to the article itself: Well done. My only quibble is with the dissing of Iowa. Basically, every race is different. For the Democrats last go round, neither Iowa, nor New Hampshire, nor any other state was too special. After the first few races, it was obvious that Edwards was competitive, but couldn't win. After that, it became clear that Clinton was going to be very close, but statistically, over the long call, she was going to come up just short of Obama. She could hang in there and hope for a stumble (even a little one) but otherwise, she was going to lose.

2004 was different. Iowa was the key to that race. In Iowa, each candidate has the unusual ability to talk personally with voters. No other state offers that. Some might see it as a bad thing, but it gave Kerry a chance to prove that he was a capable, strong speaker (even if he was a bit wooden). That was the key. Once he took Iowa, the race was essentially over. Dean's scream just made it go faster.

Sorry about the double post, the second one is a bit better (I corrected a few things).

I love your political commentary, Paul. Love it.

@1 & @3 for the WIN!!!!

"But like Tom Cruise, Mitt Romney gets lost in the Uncanny Valley because his outsize ambition blinds him."

That is a truly brilliant line.

Newt is running on the renegade ticket, a Tea-Partyish maneuver. It stinks of the Koch brothers, carpet money gone bad.

@8.. you haven't lived until you've heard the collective hee haw of african american democrats of georgia every time they hear gingrinch's name.

#19

Jesus, dude...NOBODY wants that image!
Pass the freaking mindbleach, wouldya?

I see many donations to the Obama Campaign as this year progresses. Newt gaining the nomination will be as good for Obama as Sarah Palin was in '08. The faithful will open their wallets by the millions to defeat that CPOS.

"...suddenly he [Gingrich] was promoting a twenty-seven-and-a-half-minute-long documentary about Mitt Romney's time as a layoff baron for Bain Capital, a documentary constructed out of half-truths (even though the truth is terrible enough without any embellishments)."

Half-truths? Half-truths do not a documentary make, as all good documentarians in Seattle and elsewhere know so well. Please Mr. Paul Constant, refrain from debasing an entire art form with your careless rhetoric.

all the jokes about the 2 crazy guys? Seems as America buys into the the internet age head first at the speed of light as web sights get punked by hackers from wall street to ticket master the validity of 2 crazy guy jokes are indeed confirmed.

Herman Cain drops out Because he wanted to endorse newt? election years are so hard to stomach as the freaks spew crap like coral reefs spew seeds and 0% of it is relevant.

Iran at least has the brains to build its nuclear plants "underground" so yea! in the view of chernoble and 5 mile island and fukashima Iran seems to be far ahead of the rest of the world in nuclear technology?

http://www.jewishvoice.org/site/PageServ…
http://www.jvim.com/
http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aei…

Republicans are in bed with some of the ugliest beeiches?

God said "Go get a lawyer beeitche, we need to to teach Republicanisim in schools and use America to impose and enslave the earth into Christy-insanity".

Vote republican so America can have the largest economy in the world and while having no healthcare and be light years behind most nations quality of life and conditions.