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Romney snags key McCain backing; Bachmann quits race

World Jan. 05, 2012 - 07:10AM JST ( 26 )

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Romney won 30,015 votes over 30,007 for Santorum

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum

Mitt Romney has won the first battle in the 2012 White House race, defeating conservative Rick Santorum by just 8 votes

Perry only harnessed about 10 percent of the vote

Romney won in Iowa by a margin of just eight votes

Romney and his wife Ann take to the stage

Texas Governor Rick Perry says he will consider whether to stay in the running

Rick Santorum had surged in Iowa, after being given up as politically dead weeks ago

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney

Republican presidential candidate and his wife Ann Romney

US Senator John McCain (R) announced that he is endorsing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney

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26 Comments

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SerranoJan. 05, 2012 - 07:23AM JST

Maybe Cain will make a comeback! After all, he hasn't quit, he's only suspended his campaign, right?
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FarmboyJan. 05, 2012 - 09:01AM JST

Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman—who did not campaign in Iowa so he could focus on New Hampshire—said Tuesday’s results, in which he finished last, showed Republican voters still haven’t quite made up their minds. “You’ve got three people sharing a tie. And a whole lot of people are looking for an alternative,” the former ambassador to China told MSNBC television.

I would add that a whole lot of people are looking for an alternative and not finding it with Huntsman either. Serrano is right, and I bet Cain could at least make a good pizza.
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jforceJan. 05, 2012 - 09:14AM JST

It's amazing that the media completely ignores the only adult in the whole campaign - Ron Paul. He is the grass roots libertarian and has made huge inroads. What are they all afraid of? Well, their afraid he may actually change the system and stick to his morals. These other candidates, including the president, are elitist, out-of-touch puppets.
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unreconstructedJan. 05, 2012 - 10:03AM JST

Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina said the “extremist Tea Party agenda won a clear victory” in the Republican contest and called on the president’s supporters to step up their organizational efforts.

And the same day our rogue, power-drunk president Obama proudly announces he will , in clear violation of the Constitution he was sworn to uphold, make recess appointments because he has personally decided when Congress is in session and when it is not.
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Pukey2Jan. 05, 2012 - 10:36AM JST

It's a shame Bachmann's quitting. I was really hoping she'd get more exposure - she makes Sarah Pailin look like Snow White. Would have loved to see her husband get outed (Richard Simmons, anyone?). With all these bigoted Republican contenders, it's like a freak show. When the economy needs fixing and a host of other urgent issues need to be addressed, these clowns just talk about gays, abortion, the break up of families (caused by straight philanderers like Gingrich and straight teenagers who have babies willy nilly), etc.
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Herve Nmn L'EisaJan. 05, 2012 - 10:37AM JST

jforce is absolutely correct, as is unreconstructed. Obama should be impeached for treason. Since even before day 1 of his "reign" Obama has done everything he could to even further violate the Constitution, stride by stride with both the Establishment Repugs and Establishment Dems. The people are fed up with both parties AND the Dictator-in-Chief Obama. How about going back to actual Constitutional Republic USA? That's a true, American idea!
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plasticmonkeyJan. 05, 2012 - 11:16AM JST

Obama should be impeached for treason

That someone can utter such nonsense shows how irrational political discourse has become on the right in America, particularly in the idiot belt of the country where voters are persuaded by angry soundbites that are a cynical replacement for nuanced articulation of their frustrations. No wonder candidates like Santorum and Gingrich can get as much support as they do.

Obama has done everything he could to even further violate the Constitution

Do explain. Are you talking about health care reform? I suppose you consider seat belt laws and sanitation requirements in restaurants to be totalitarian repression as well. Read a little Upton Sinclair and see where unfettered capitalism takes you.

Ron Paul is at least consistent, I'll give you that, and his ideas on foreign policy deserve some attention. Otherwise he's just unconstructive/destructive polemic, just like the other GOP clowns.
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SerranoJan. 05, 2012 - 01:16PM JST

"I know the attacks attacks are going to come"

Wait til the Repubicans nominate their candidate, then we'll see attacks from the Democrats, the likes of which...
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noriyosan73Jan. 05, 2012 - 02:13PM JST

Mr. Romney was predicted in March 2010 by this writer to be the Republicans' nominee for president by the Republican Party. Let the battle begin. The decision in the USA will make a major difference in the USA taxpayers' support of Japan's economy as well as other countries'. If Mr. Romney doesn't win the election for president, the precedent has been set. President Obama, if re-elected, or the new president cannot ignore the demands of USA taxpayers to stop paying for unnecessary defense and economic spending in foreign countries.
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LagunaJan. 05, 2012 - 02:21PM JST

Doubtful, Serrano - if Republicans are unparalleled in one thing, it is the political attack. Gingrich is already complaining that he's been "Romneyboated," which might seem a funny thing for a Republican to say as it admits that GOP attacks on Kerry in 2004 were overboard.

The race is moving to South Carolina, where Republican operators smeared McCain by claiming he had fathered a black child out of wedlock. An adviser for the Perry campaign was quoted in the LA Times: "This is a mean state. It's going to get personal."

So if you love political smearing and underhanded tricks, enjoy it now: once the general election begins, the focus will be on the issues (an on whether Obama's place on the ballot is constitutional).
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RiffraffJan. 05, 2012 - 02:59PM JST

plasticmonkeyJan. 05, 2012 - 11:16AM JST

Health care was just a start, forcing people to buy a product and justifying it under the interstate commerce clause? His latest stunt is to appoint department heads while congress is recessed. Stating that he will do things with or without congress and actually breaking rules and laws that govern such actions. These are just the first and last examples of a President who has make a mockery of the respect for the document he was sworn to uphold.
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smithinjapanJan. 05, 2012 - 03:04PM JST

Laguna: "Doubtful, Serrano - if Republicans are unparalleled in one thing, it is the political attack."

That should be qualified, since the Democrats do, in between actually explaining policy ideas and how they would like to contribute, actually attack -- "if Republicans are unparalleled in one thing, it is the UNJUSTIFIED and absolutely out in left field political attack." You should also have added that that's ALL they do is attack -- they never offer any ideas, and if they do they never actually explain how they would implement them.

Glad that idiot bachmann is out, although it's one less source of humour in this carnival.
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unreconstructedJan. 05, 2012 - 03:07PM JST

Do explain. Are you talking about health care reform? I suppose you consider seat belt laws and sanitation requirements in restaurants to be totalitarian repression as well. Read a little Upton Sinclair and see where unfettered capitalism takes you.

Oh yeah. Gots to like, read more Upton Sinclair, man.

It was free markets and the wealth they generated that fixed nearly all of the ills your clown heroes like Sinclair wrote about, in addition to giving us life spans and medical technology Sinclair could not have dreamed of.
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unreconstructedJan. 05, 2012 - 03:17PM JST

Record turnout in Iowa.

The Obama pod people must be terrified.
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TriumvereJan. 05, 2012 - 03:24PM JST

and I bet Cain could at least make a good pizza.

You'd lose that bet.
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unreconstructedJan. 05, 2012 - 03:34PM JST

Gingrich is already complaining that he's been "Romneyboated," which might seem a funny thing for a Republican to say as it admits that GOP attacks on Kerry in 2004 were overboard.

Kerry is the richest man in the Senate. if he wanted the swiftboat guys to cease and desist he could have easily sued. But he didn't. Because he knew he would lose, in much the same way he lost to Bush.
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plasticmonkeyJan. 05, 2012 - 04:33PM JST

It was free markets and the wealth they generated that fixed nearly all of the ills your clown heroes like Sinclair wrote about

Yep, that's all it was. And it was big government overregulation that caused meatpackers to be working in vats of poison.
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unreconstructedJan. 05, 2012 - 05:53PM JST

Send the fruitcake Bachmann back to Minnesota, where she is among her own kind.
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lostrune2Jan. 05, 2012 - 06:08PM JST

Bachmann quitting after the Iowa caucus is inevitable but still a bit of a surprise - just back in August, she won the Iowa Straw Poll. So many Iowans changed their minds real quick.

And the 122,255 votes turned out to be a record turnout Iowa caucus - for the Republican side. The all-time Iowa record is 239,000 for the Democrat caucus just back in 2008.
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sailwindJan. 05, 2012 - 08:20PM JST

Lostrune2,

Agreed, Yes we can by that slick talking Obama sure got em out to vote then.
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realdollJan. 05, 2012 - 10:31PM JST

I think Obama will win because due to a natural business correction and maybe lower gas prices, the economy will improve just enough to give him the edge. Personally I'd like to see Rep Ron Paul as president, then Gov Mitt Romney as a second place.
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globalwatcherJan. 05, 2012 - 11:36PM JST

Lots need to be said, but I am glad Bachmann (a shadow of Sarah Palin) quits the race. She is a very mean and cold hearted human being on the face of earth while she calims she is a perfect Christian.

She believes in "Water Boarding " tourture over detainees and it is okay to do so. Many Christians were turned off by that. I believe she is for a "cruel and unusual punishment" disregarding the 9th Amendment of US Constitution..
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MadvertsJan. 06, 2012 - 02:43AM JST

"“Our message to President Barack Obama is: ‘You can run but you can’t hide from your record,’” said the decorated Vietnam War veteran, who accused Obama of “destroying our national security.” "

Neh? Does Old Man McGas Tax actually know what day it is?
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The Truth MattersJan. 06, 2012 - 06:05AM JST

Picking up the "Hey you kids, Get off of my lawn!" endorsement just doesn't hold the water it used to.

John McCain has become a serious curmudgeon. It's kind of sad.
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The Truth MattersJan. 06, 2012 - 06:11AM JST

Send the fruitcake Bachmann back to Minnesota, where she is among her own kind.

Indeed, let's get her back to her life of entitlement and lack of accountability for her actions and her husbands welfare, just like some people we know.
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The Truth MattersJan. 06, 2012 - 08:44AM JST

I get a real kick out of the howler monkeys here screaming that the president violated the constitution. The same poo flingers were holding water for Bush for 8 year and see zero irony.

It makes me laugh.