Newt Gingrich wins South Carolina primary
Newt Gingrich surged to victory Saturday in the South Carolina primary, riding a pair of strong debate performances to overtake Mitt Romney and stop his seemingly relentless march to the GOP nomination.
NBC News called the race for the former House Speaker almost immediately after the polls closed, a repeat of what happened 11 days ago in New Hampshire, but with a much different result.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Romney appeared headed for second place, with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Texas Rep. Ron Paul trailing behind.
The results were a fitting addendum to a rollercoaster campaign, marking the first time ever that three different contestants have won the first three Republican contests.
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Especially if he continues his scorched-earth alienation of women, gays, minorities and the poor. Romney is the one who scares me more.
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Who knows? 
Ah, one of the most disgusting, negative candidates has won in a state whose twisted conservative dirty campaign tactics is well documented and pretty much ridiculed by the rest of the country. So now we give the Newtant attention whore plenty of attention while the smart, knowing voters of this country can sit back and smile because this is rather Much Ado About Nothing in the long run but feeds into the Reality Show mentality of the drama obsessed media and the trash-talk loving sheeples of America!
But...this whole primary is more than a circus. It is a dangerous, calculated process to try and insure a brokered convention.
The Republican powers-that-be know the existing candidates are a pathetic joke. They pull strings and promote ludicrous press and watch while they try to guarantee that there will not be enough votes on the first ballot of the convention and all *earned* delegates (you know the ones chosen by the PEOPLE) are let loose to change their votes, superdelegates (NOT representing the people, but specifically The Party) step up and in, and behind closed doors they decide who will be THEIR chosen candidate...successfully eliminating the PEOPLE"s voice and desires.
This Republican Party has absolutely no interest in what the people want or need. In fact, they hold the citizens in sneering contempt. The nation is being classically played so that the elitist and souless greed masters of politics can rule their tawdy power-obsessed world.
Obama and liberal lovers, just try to breathe deep, because we haven't seen the tip of the ugliness and stupidity iceberg yet. Maybe we should take the next few months to subscribe to Netflix and catch up on some great old, well written TV shows....like West Wing 
It took him until just a few weeks ago to start insulting African Americans!!! And this after he'd done the same thing to Hispanics, gays and lesbians, and even our own women troops for years!!! 
h/t Wyatt Cenac and The Daily Show
Really??? 
....Until the primary season's over, that is.... 
It's always good to hear from someone who actually lives in the area. Like you, I believe that Romney's religion was probably his biggest problem in S.C. Religion was likely to some extent a problem for Santorum too.
It is a real shame that even a portion of the US electorate is so preoccupied with religious labels. I would personally like to see religion left out of the political discourse altogether unless one's religious practices have actually caused or inspired harm to others.
I also wonder what Newt's camp promised Perry for his withdrawal just before the primary. He'd already stayed in long enough to compete even if he wasn't among the top contenders and, while I believe that Newt would still have carried the day, the spread may have been less without the switches from Perry.
But I'm loving the disarray among the GOPers. The real winner is President Obama. May that continue! 
That their wasn't an ordnance to repaint East Tradd St. A section of course known as Rainbow Row!
I was there and loved Charleston. Best crab cakes I've had. (Haven't made it to Md)
But this?
As George Takei (Sulu) might say, Oh My!
Where are the Log Cabin Republicans?
They wouldn't get rid of it just because the rainbow has become associated with the pride movement. Anyway, it's a tourist attraction, and many other folks have emulated the practice. Plus, it's Charleston, considerably more cosmopolitan and less backward than many other places in SC. It's also the birthplace and ancestral hometown of the most thoughtfully subversive progressive of my generation, my fellow Huguenot-American homeboy:
