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Posted on 01/05/2012 2:28:50 AM PST by woofie
'A house divided against itself cannot stand," is attributed mainly to Newt Gingrich's and Barack Obama's favorite Republican, Abraham Lincoln, but its appeal to unity has been around since the Gospel of Mark. As is its habit, the Republican Party is trying to affirm this eternal truth one more time.
Much as it benefits the incumbent president, there is little point in not admitting the obvious: The Republican divider is the party's front-runner, Mitt Romney. This is the one clear message delivered the past half year by the patient people of Iowa.
Once all the other top-tier Republican presidential candidates chose not to run, the heavyweight Mr. Romney should have cruised well above the bench-warmers who opposed him in Iowa. It never happened.
Mr. Romney had already run in 2008's Iowa caucuses. You can guess what his vote percentage was in 2008. That's right, 25.1%, essentially what he got in his eight-vote win Tuesday.
Whatever time Mr. Romney chose to spend in Iowa this year, the voters knew him. Surveying the current edition of the Romney candidacy and charged with picking a GOP presidential nominee, Iowa's voters in their wisdom commenced a time-honored technique for finding a solution to a problem with no obvious answer: They threw every candidate against the wall to see if any would stick.
The dogged Rick Santorum stuck.
Two quick Santorum thoughts: What were all those debates about? And national security still beats isolationism among Republicans.
Beyond this, what Mr. Santorum's astonishing whip-hand run to a photo finish from the rear of the pack means is hard to know exactly, but the increasingly smug Romney campaign ought to give it thought. The implications of the Santorum run are both positive and ominous.
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When has the Rep party ever been truly united?
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