The race is on

And the winner is…Rick Santorum. Sure he came up 9 votes short of actually winning the thing, but he’s in a pretty good position for South Carolina now, particularly if Bachmann and Perry drop out.


With winning will come the media anal exam. The full onslaught of lame stream media and Romney money will be trained directly on Rick Santorum. It always comes as every candidate who is not Mitt Romney gains a bit of traction.

Expect the first line of attack from the media to about Santorum’s stance on gay marriage. The baby splitter network, Fox News, tried in the person of Shepard Smith, but Santorum smacked him around pretty good with the old, “we love all kinds of people, but we don’t call it marriage” argument. Sort of like I love my mom, but I don’t want to marry her analogy.

When pressed by the flip Smith why he’s “against” it, Santorum lifted a razor sharp knife under Smith’s ribs with, “I’m not against anything. I’m for something, marriage.” The exchange proved one thing is certain, Smith is always at his best when he’s arguing with himself. He quickly falls out of his depth when there is a thinking human being offering the answers.

I don’t remember why Lex ruled Santorum out early in this process. Probably because he took a 13 point drubbing in his last bid for re-election as PA Senator. I probably thought, there’s no way he could win the general.

Lex has turned on that a bit. Almost anyone could beat the P-BO, if they choose to go after him. The P-BO is such an utter and complete weasel who has chosen to surround himself with other complete weasels like life long pastor Rev? Jerry G-D America Wright, Billy let’s blow up the Pentagon Ayers, Van sure I’m a communist, so what Jones. The P-BO is an incompetent buffoon who surrounds himself other incompetent buffoons like the oh so slow Joe shovel ready Biden, gun runner and accomplice to murder Eric the wad Holder, and the failed energy secretary who invested in Solyndra and electric cars that catch fire easier than a box of kitchen matches, Nobel Prize winning (Ha! it used to mean something) Dr. Stevie I can see the light Chu.

Santorum will also likely acquire more votes from Newt Gingrich’s promised negative campaign against Romney than Gingrich will. Lex opined at the time that Gingrich had sunk his own campaign before it started by sitting on a couch with Grand Fran Nan botox face Pelosi. The only thing Newt will accomplish from here on out is to give talking points to Demo-Dopes for the general election and paint himself as a sore loser. He was at his best when he reserved his sharpest attacks for the P-BO. He should go back to that strategy and let the chips fall.

Lex would be happy with Santorum, but the P-BO and his @$$clown menagerie have dug such a deep hole that it’ll take someone with Romney’s affable personality, tough minded business sense and savvy to easy us back onto the road of exceptionalism that, before this group of liberty thieves, has been our destiny.