identity politics played a decisive role on the GOP side, and much less of a role on the Democrat side.

Not sure about that, Bryan. Feminist identity politics may not have won the night, but what about Oprah campaigning for Obama so we can elect the first black President. It’s IP for the win on both sides.

So your beef with the media is that they failed to check with you as to who should get the emphasis?

Bradky on January 4, 2008 at 7:48 AM

And we’re done troll… I knew I should have never fed you to begin with.

La buena noticia es que perdió Hillary. Aunque Obama tampoco es una maravilla, como ya dije aquí. De NYT:
Primero los demócratas:
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, a one-term Democratic senator trying to become the nation’s first African-America…

P.P.S. It’s not private if spoken in public.

P.P.P.S. Private or not you give me the jibblies.

P.P.P.P.S. Blaming your wife as a novice for what you said?!!

From what I gathered, Iowans don’t have any issues that they’re concerned about. That’s one reason they went with Huckabee, besides the fact that he’s not afraid to say “Merry Christmas.”

Iowa has around a 3% Hispanic population, so the invasion hasn’t reached them yet, so no concern there. Apparently, Iowans aren’t concerned about his record of releasing violent prisioners, because it doesn’t effect them. I know Neil Boortz likes him because of him saying he supports the FairTax plan, but Huckaberry’s history is one of tax, tax, and more tax. Apparently Iowans like to pay tax, so again no concern.

The only thing I do know about Iowans is that they don’t like “negative ads.” I heard a woman say it on Hannity the other night. Iowans didn’t get to see the dirty underhanded trick that Huck did the other day to Romney, so that ad didn’t count.

I do think there is a “Gomer Pyle Syndrome” going on with Huckabee and that played at lot to do with his winning in Iowa.

- The Cat

Huffington lost that race and Arianna soon thereafter divorced him and held on to the last name.

Unreal. I think we’ll be seeing a resignation on Huckabee’s team before the weekend is out.
Jaynie59 on January 3, 2008 at 10:31 PM

Riiight. Huckabee soars to victory so it’s a perfect time to fire his campaign manager.

I’m curious how Rush will react tomorrow. He spent a huge amount of time today knocking Huckabee, Rollins, and co. Rush seems to have helped instead of hurt Huckabee, since Huck did even better than the polls indicated he would.
aero on January 4, 2008 at 12:00 AM

Do you think the Iowan Redeem the Vote crowd, female in the majority, care about what Rush says? I doubt it. I think they care much more what Rick Warren says, and the people who are voting for him are not conservatives except on social issues.

In any case, Rush will say it’s not over, and there’s a long way to go before our nominee is determined.

Rush is part of the coastal elite of this country. Many people know that.
bnelson44 on January 4, 2008 at 12:06 AM

/Sarc?

It is disgusting that Huck is running as the Jesus candidate, but I believe he believes he is the Jesus candidate. This makes him dangerous. Not because he can destroy this country, but because he will seriously quash this countries ability to have an effective foreign policy. He will be the next Carter. And when his presidency goes the way of Carter, he will do exactly as Carter has. He will continue to believe he was the “chosen” candidate and will spend the rest of his life pushing the same agenda that destroyed his credibility in the first place.

But, fear not folks. These are the days of the 527 swiftboaters and they will not be silent. I predict the attack ads start real soon and Huck will be exposed for the liberal nanny stater (who is completely misinformed on foreign policy) that he is. The beauty of it is that they wont have to lie at all.

You don’t think they could have done it with Tancredo or Hunter if they’d wanted to?

So your beef with the media is that they failed to check with you as to who should get the emphasis?

/rant

Patriot33 on January 4, 2008 at 3:26 AM

When was the last time you saw a true Huck supporter on this site. The next will be the first. Your rant is preaching to the choir. The Huckaboom is an uncontrollable groundswell from some unknown source — maybe a rebellion of long suppressed evangelical liberals — they do not blog, read newspapers, or even believe in evolution. They take their marching orders from their pastor and show up on election day. It’s like a hurricane. All we can do is hope it blows over.

With them delivering a (the first of many?) Huckabee victory in Iowa, I have some frank words for them, from me: Fu## you, and stop trying to redefine conservatism and stop hijacking this nomination process. You are nothing but a bunch of gullible, naive simpletons and by (almost) en masse supporting a clueless liberal dunce like Huckabee who has so easily duped you with classic identity politics, you are every bit what you stereotyped to be. Stop it before you kill our party and most importantly the conservative movement. If you don’t, the backlash AGAINST YOU will be far greater than any power play you are trying to make now, and the hostility against you and opposition to your little pet social issues will be much worse than it is now, with Democrats in complete control.

/rant

Still, it does warm my cold, cynical, meat-clogged heart to see that Mitt still didn’t win after spending 9.8 bazillion dollars there.