Iowa takeaways

Finally, the Iowa caucuses are over, thank goodness. With that and some new developments, it seems there's a lot going on. First things first, the results from last night: 1) Romney technically won, sure--by 8 measley votes. That ain't much, folks. The real winners? That has to go to Rick "I'm a lunatic" Santorum and Ron "I'm really not on the fringe" Paul. How else can you look at it? No one thought Santorum had a chance and to come in so close, in 2nd place? Then, Ron Paul finishes so closely in 3rd? Oh, yeah, those two came out big. What's interesting, too, is that it's been rather correctly pointed out that, with this, it shows 75% of those Iowa Republicans were against the man who is now considered the front-runner. That's not good for Willard. Or Mittens or whatever you want to call him. Also, to add tough insult to this injury, Newt Gingrich said both last night and this morning that he will, in essence, do everything he can to make sure Romney isn't the Republican presidential nominee. Yow. That'll hurt. That'll hurt the Party, for sure. (GOOD). Another winner last night? It had to be President Obama himself. This showed that the Republican Party is tearing itself apart---still. Seriously, President Obama should just use footage of all these candidates from this campaign, all saying horrible things about whoever becomes the Republcan's candidate. It would be easy, there's tons of it (the footage) and it's effective. Shoot, a lot of it is even true. One thing's for sure, it's going to be one crazy political year, made far crazier because corporations and the wealthy can spend all they want on the election, thanks to the Right Wing Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling last year. Yeehaw. Links: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/big-takeaway-iowa-75-republicans-don-t-want-152537896.html;_ylt=AsKtTYH1eCE9i5sAUGdem9eiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQ0ZTRsMGZtBG1pdANGUCBUaGUgRGFpbHkgVGlja2VyBHBrZwM3NGY1MTYzNS1lN2E0LTMyNWItODMyMC00ZjkwOTZkOTRmNjAEcG9zAzIEc2VjA01lZGlhU2VjdGlvbkxpc3QEdmVyAzViYWVmMjEwLTM2ZTgtMTFlMS05ZjJmLTg3ODhlODE4NzhmOA--;_ylg=X3oDMTFvdnRqYzJoBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3; http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/newt-gingrich-unloads-mitt-romney-ron-paul-hampshire-184017787.html; http://news.yahoo.com/mitt-romney-celebrates-gop-win-2-rivals-flounder-143626145.html; http://news.yahoo.com/michele-bachmann-ends-her-presidential-campaign-not-her-174809476.html