Turns out Rick Santorum won the Iowa caucus, not Mr. Inevitable Mitt Romney.
THE RESULTS: Santorum finished ahead by 34 votes
MISSING DATA: 8 precincts’ numbers will never be certified
PARTY VERDICT:GOP official says, ‘It’s a split decision’Rick Santorum – Final total: 29,839 Change: -168
Mitt Romney – Final total: 29,805 Change: -210
In other news Rick Perry drops out of the race and endorses Newt Gingrich, while Gingrich is surging in South Carolina. Republicans in disarray. Film at 11.
This from the GOP presidential debate on Sept. 7 should give everyone pause.
Brian Williams: Your state has executed 234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times … [applause]
What kind of people applaud 234 executions? That’s just dark-age creepy. We can disagree on the death penalty. I happen to think it’s immoral. But if you are for legalized revenge killing (and that’s what it is) it should be the most somber of considerations, not something to be cheered and applauded like a hockey game.
Keep in mind that the people applauding in that television audience were not some right-wing, lunatic-fringe extremists who just showed up at the studio by chance. Not just anybody gets into these debates. They were likely hand-picked GOP loyalists who have some measure of status within the local party. They are a sampling of today’s Republican stalwarts. These are the cream of the crop.
Well, the American Family Association has answered the question I posed here. It is going to give Texas Gov. Rick Perry a pass on his investment in a video porno distribution company because, you see, Perry sold his stock in Movie Gallery before the AFA started going after the company.
Wonkette has the press release …
The American Family Association only became aware of Movie Gallery’s porn sales in the summer of 2000, and did not launch its boycott of Movie Gallery until November 11, 2000.
Thus Mr. Perry had divested himself of Movie Galley stock long before its involvement in the sale of pornography was even on the AFA’s radar, and five years before AFA launched its public boycott.
Now, if Perry were a Democrat who, for example, invested in a 20-year old real estate land deal called Whitewater that looked sorta kinda suspicious, Katy bar the door, we’d have to have ourselves a full-scale Congressional investigation and launch impeachment proceedings. But Perry isn’t a Democrat so it’s all good.
The former governor of Utah and current GOP presidential candidate has got some pretty crazy ideas …
In an interview on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Jake Tapper asked Huntsman about his shots at Tex. Gov. Rick Perry’s contention that evolution is “a theory that’s out there,” but not a sure thing, nor is the idea of climate change. Last week Huntsman tweeted his take, “To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.”
OK. Jon Huntsman, you are crazy. Crazy to be running as a Republican in this day and age where anti-science ignorance is worn as a badge of honor.
Brian Nieves “Call Me Crazy” ringtone
Gov. Rick Perry eats a corndog
What do the porn films, “Teens Never Say No,” “Teens with Tits, “Bisexual Barebacking Vol. 1″ and “Big Tit Brotha Lovers 6″ have in common? They are all films distributed by a video porn company named Movie Gallery Corporation. Why does that matter? Because according to an investigative piece by PoliticusUSA, Texas Gov. Rick Perry invested thousands of dollars in the company as a private citizen back in 1995.
I suppose that wouldn’t mean so much if not for the fact that Perry is now running as an outspoken family-values Christian conservative with alliances to the ultra conservative American Family Association (AFA). The funny thing is, the AFA has been begging the Dept. of Justice to investigate Movie Gallery for its porn practices for years.
Not only is the AFA a core constituency of an extreme, far Christian-right candidate, but as Hrafnkell Haraldsson reported for PoliticusUSA, Perry teamed up with the AFA for his recent prayer day rally, “The Response, a Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis.” Just this March, we saw then Presidential candidacy hopefuls Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour and Mike Huckabee courting the AFA by appearing on Bryan Fisher’s radio show. So it’s puzzling that Perry invested his money in something he must have been aware violated the very core of his alleged pro-life, pro-family, pro-conservative values. However, Perry put his holdings into a blind trust in 1998, and hence, no one knows if he is still profiting off of pornography. Perhaps the AFA doesn’t care if their Presidential pick is profiting off of pornography so allegedly obscene that they demanded the DoJ investigate.
And if all that isn’t problematic enough …
Rick Perry later passed laws to help companies like Movie Gallery avoid “frivolous” tort suits, after they were sued for allegedly violating the law by illegally distributing porn across state lines. This move was seen by some as a move to protect his investment in Movie Gallery, as he used the very word Movie Gallery used (“frivolous”) regarding the lawsuits they were fighting at the time.
It will be interesting to see how the AFA handles this. Will it denounce Perry, effectively ending his family-values campaign, or will it make up some weird rationalization about “youthful indiscretions” and remain supportive, effectively ending the association’s credibility with Christian conservatives? A tangled web for sure, and the kind only the hypocritical family-values crowd can weave.
This weekend Texas Governor Rick (low wages) Perry announced he is running for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. During his announcement he mentioned jobs eleven times. While it is encouraging to hear any candidate talk about jobs there are good reasons to search the record for a real look at the Governor’s talking points. The real reasons for Texas job creation are population growth and the stimulus program. The Governor didn’t mention that 23 states have lower unemployment rates than Texas!
The type of jobs created are the low-wage, minimum wage type that earned the nickname, Rick (low-wages) Perry. Joshua Holland dissects the good Governors record in Rick Perry’s Campaign Strategy, Distort his Abysmal Economic Record.
Talk about a miracle being a mirage!
