Wasn't Iowa crazy??
At this point it looks like Bachmann and Perry will be dropping out of the race due to their low standing, which bolsters my confidence in the American public--we'll see what the day holds.
However, the fact that Santorum is in close second (some are calling it a tie) with Romney reveals that GSA (Great Stupid America) is alive and well. This dude simply cannot stand up against Obama. Sometimes I wonder if he could even stand up against a high school student (more on that later) or a paperback book because he just comes across as weak in his education. His thoughts on Israel conflict with more than 30 years of American policy. I'm curious whether Santorum is lost on the issue of Israel/the West Bank (which, admittedly, is bewildering as hell, like the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict) and therefore trying to glide over it without getting entangled, or if he really thinks that it is all (in his words) simply "Israeli land."
Mitt Romney had a bit more to say on the matter, but he too is fearful of looking bad on the topic or pissing anyone (including our allies) off. Hm...
However, Iran seems to be the really hot topic with the GOP candidates--it just keeps coming up and becomes somewhat of a fixation at times!
Bachmann has perhaps received the most attention on this issue for her sheer misinformed statement that we should shut down the U.S. Embassy in Iran. Oops, too bad it had been shut down since the 1980 hostage crisis. Guess she missed that one.
Santorum comes in a close second to this stupidity seeing as he comes across as wanting to just blow them to high heaven--even better, blow their nuclear facilities to high heaven ("we will degrade those facilities through air strikes") if they won't let us in to inspect them...and add into the equation that according to most sources Iran has and is being cooperative about the monitoring of their nuclear facilities. He is sounding tough (or, as I think of it in regards to Santorum, TUFF!) by insisting "Iran will not get a nuclear weapon under my watch!" But as David Gregory so brilliantly pointed out, two previous presidents have declared the same thing. Though I suppose for them it came true.
Although Mitt Romney has similar viewpoints he is hanging back and letting Santorum do the hard-talking (and making mistakes), in essence letting his opponent test the waters with the blowing-up-Iran's-nuke-site-thing. However, in 2008 he said the same thing--"We can and will stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons"--it just sounded better than Santorum's smirking, self-satisfied pronouncement. But, Romney also made it sound like we would prevent Iran from getting nukes, not making them and he has also made statements regarding how he would use efficient military strikes in Iran (again a lot like Santorum, just sounds smarter saying it).
At this point I'm saying go Romney. He may have an inflated head and an anger problem, be a bit wishy-washy, but compared to the other GOP candidates there isn't much wiggle room. Anything to get Santorum away from the lead--please!! This is the guy who has said:
he agrees with Bush "98% of the time",
that Boston is a center for pedophilia simply because it is a liberal center,
thinks states should regulate the sexuality of individuals (hell, he thinks gay marriage personally threatens his own marriage with his wife..and we all know there is only one way that this is possible, ha ha),
and has paralleled abortion with slavery (explain that one, please).
Any candidate that is more concerned with keeping the gays down than with foreign policy is a dipshit. And that is how I view Santorum-- a bigoted dipshit. Can we stop hating on the gays, Muslims, and Jews yet?? Prejudice has no place in any election.
And now, as promised, a high school student taking on (and, in my opinion) doing pretty well at dominating Santorum (love how he calls her a "lawyer" as an insult):
What will happen next?! It is anyone's guess. And as with anything truly nuts (which this race is), you can't make this shit up.
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