Iowa Caucuses Return Watching - OFFICIAL THREAD!!! (1/3/12)

[flightlesskiwi]

yup. it's that "eternal vigilance" thing that goes along with "liberty".

we could have won Iowa with 100% and we would still have to fight for EVERY day for liberty. This is going to be a tough fight and some here will run. Not me, I am for Paul in the Fall!! 2012

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

To the feeble, I say goodbye

 

[skytoucher]

People who mention that no one in the past has gotten the nominee who didn't win either Iowa or NH need to remember that the GOP changed the rules this year to allow all these candidates to stay in the race.

If Paul had taken 3rd here in 2008, how many delegates would he have gotten? Take a chill pill, the GOP changes are going to backfire on them.

 

[misterx]

This fear mongering is going to make me vomit. This is why you're going nowhere in New Hampshire, Newt. LIVE FREE OR DIE!

 

[demolama]

I'm so ticked off. I really thought people were better than this. Are all old people this easy to manipulate?

Most do not use the internet, and the ones that do only go to Cnn or other MSM news. Old people also have the mentality of the Great Depression of government doing things for them. FDR saved the nation through his great central planning. These people have never lived in a world where government wasn't there to take care of them and they can't fathom losing those things.

Young people are paying the price for the arrogance and greed of their grandparents.

 

[hipposelect]

I don't know how they did it, but the fix is in on this thing, folks. Santorum is a nobody who has spent about $1M on his campaign. Did you see pictures of his so-called "rallies?" Hell, if he got a dozen people together he was happy. What the hell is going on here?

 

[thehungarian]

First few minutes of Newt's speech: whining about how negative everyone has been

Next few minutes of Newt's speech: attacks Ron Paul and Mitt Romney

 

[EBounding]

Is Huntsman going to be the Santorum of New Hampshire?

 

[Shinerxx]

Check out Jefferson County - 49% for Paul

 

[Created4]

CNN's entrance polls said Ron had HALF the self identified evangelicals.

Also, Adam wasn't able to get compassion on the air in time in Iowa, but I think he said it would start playing yesterday in New Hampshire. that could have changed.

The campaign needs to look at the numbers carefully and see what hurt us. I am not sure it was the racism issue. Also, we won the conservative vote, according to CNN. I think defense is the key issue, and the reason why they brought in that corporal at the end. This will probably be the strategy. Get the men in uniform out and convince Americans we're in trouble if we don't get out of the Middle East.

 

[Standing Liberty]

Fat boy is attacking Paul. The boogy man Iran
is out to get us. Warmonger, blood thursty chicken
hawk needs some plucking.

 

[phill4paul]

Newts calling for debate w/ Paul. Attacking up, on Newts part, but maybe an opportunity. Lincoln/Douglas challenge?

 

[notsure]

Was the soldier speaking at Paul's podium, the same soldier cut off by cnn earlier?

 

[jordie]

wasn't it the only county Ron won in 2008? It seems they love him there

Of course they do. There is literally a town called Libertyville, Jefferson County there.

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Holy crap Mitt takes the lead!

Hope Romney wins. At least then, he'll surge and win New Hampshire and it'll be over quickly.

Outside of Paul winning, the best outcome for me is just getting it over as soon as possible.

 

[brushfire]

Go ahead, ring it! The pain will stop when you ring the bell!

The rest of us will press on!

 

[LiveFreeOrDieNow]

Dont blame the youth. I'll walk all day in the snow to cast my vote for ron paul.

 

[FreeTraveler]

Gingrich is scared shitless of Paul, you can tell from his speech.

Yet we've got people here willing to give up and think it's all over.

Dumb, dumb, dumb.

 

[daviddee]

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[FluffyUnbound]

It would have been nice to win Iowa, but mainly just to see the panicked MSM and GOP Establishment reaction. ("Seeing O'Reilly's face" and "Listening to Rush whine" and all of that.) I still never saw a path to the nomination even if Ron won tonight. The average GOP voter is just too actively wedded to permanent war.

The best 2012 outcome we can hope for is for Obama to be re-elected but with a GOP House and Senate. The GOP is utterly unreliable for liberty as the governing party, but actually pretty decent as the opposition. Let's hope for four years of gridlock to keep things from getting much worse, and we take another shot at this with Rand in four years.

 

[wstrucke]

Interestingly I recall some people saying that we could win Iowa if we got 25,000 votes. We're currently at 24,144 with 93% of the precincts in, so all in all I think we did what we set out to do. This fight has only just begun.