I have it. I’m glad it’s over and in spite of it being a close race between Romney and Santorum, I’m glad Romney won. Santorum is just too weird and too conservative. Too Weird…he took his son that died at birth home for a couple of hours so his other kids could see that it was a real baby. I’m not discounting the trauma and sadness of the death but surely there was a better way to handle it. Too Conservative…Santorum blamed the left for students’ low history test scores saying it was a conspiracy to, “Desensitize America to what American values are so they are more pliable to the new values that they would like to impose on America.” And then there is that welfare comment he made but I’ll the NON-Conformist deal with him. More weirdness from the caucus, Ron Paul came in third when pundits were sure he might win the whole thing, he’s too old and will never be the party’s nominee. A few other hawkeye caucueye facts, so-called savior of the Republican party came in 5th and poor Iowa native Michele Bachmann came in sixth. She’s stepping aside because she has to, not because she wants to, and besides by now she looks ridiculous in most polls. Let’s not forget Newt Gingrich who looked like he would sail to the nomination(his words). He came in fourth but the bigger story about him is in late 2011 he was polling in double digits only to squander it all by not responding to a boat load of negative ads. In his outsized head, I’m sure he felt he didn’t have to but ha! the laugh is on him.

Last night’s Iowa Caucus held none of the magic of the Democratic one in 2008 when a young upstart named Barack Obama shocked the world by winning. The fact that last’s night’s was decided by a mere eight votes should have made it more interesting but it was after all the stiff Mitt Romney against the several other nut cases all in their own right.

It’s on to New Hampshire and the race really is shaping up to be a three-man race between Romney and possibly Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. The rest are just hangers-on.

Libergirl