Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The final "Survivor – GOP Presidential Primary" debate from South Carolina is Thursday night, hosted by TeaNN (formerly known as CNN) and the Southern Republican Leadership Conference from Charleston, SC at 8:00 p.m. ET on TeaNN. We're down to "Mittens" Romney, disgraced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Rick "man on dog" Santorum, … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

I can't keep up with all the ads being produced by Stephen Colbert Jon Stewart for the Making a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow Super PAC. The latest ad attacks Stephen Colbert to prove that there is no coordination between Stephen Colbert and his Making a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow Super PAC, and then calls B.S. on the lack of coordination. I suppose this is now self-parody?

The ad is narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, reprising his role in Snakes on a Plane (sans the F-bombs). Video below the fold.

You can catch all the ads at Colbert Super PAC | Making a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow | ColbertSuperPac.com.

by David Safier It's a miracle! The Republicans love to remind us government has never created a single job and federal stimulus money is a budget busting job killer. But Jan Brewer performed a miracle of near biblical proportions, transforming fetid stimulus water into fine job-producing wine. In July 2010, Gov. Jan Brewer was in … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In breaking news this morning, Governor Goodhair Rick Perry will "suspend" (end) his campaign. "Another one bites the dust, hey hey!" Rick Perry Is Ending His Campaign – ABC News: Rick Perry is telling his supporters that he's going to end his campaign for the Republican nomination, ABC News has confirmed. Perry entered … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Aha! Just as I posted at the time, A typo may have led to 'Mittens' Romney's win in Iowa. It turns out that Tea-Publicans don't know how to count after they run out of fingers and toes, and can't do math.

The "official" results are in and Rick "man on dog" Santorum is the official winner of the Iowa Caucus. Final Iowa Results: Santorum Tops Romney, but We’ll Never Know Who Won:

Rick Santorum collected more caucus votes in Iowa, by the state party’s final count, but we’ll never know who really won.

The Republican Party of Iowa told the Des Moines Register Thursday morning that the final count shows Santorum winning by 34 votes after precincts certified their results. But eight precincts’ results will never be recovered and certified, party officials told the paper.

The current, incomplete count: 29,839 votes for Santorum and 29,805 votes for Mitt Romney.

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Since the Iowa Republican Party announced on caucus night that Romney had edged Santorum by a mere eight votes, it has been collecting certified results forms from Iowa’s counties and precincts.

Thursday’s results are final. Santorum will forever hold a lead with incomplete returns.

By now, though,  it may not matter  whether Santorum officially won. Before Thursday morning’s announcement, the candidate and major media outlets had already declared Iowa an effective tie, and Iowa does not award delegates to any candidate. Unlike for most states, Iowa’s delegates to the Republican National Convention are free to support whichever candidate they choose, and the state will not select those delegates until June.