Morning Mix: Romney's Nevada Win And Newt Hangs With A Rapper

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won Nevada’s GOP caucuses by a wide margin, surprising no one, really. At the time the race was called, Romney had 40.5 percent of the vote with Rep. Ron “honest rape” Paul and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich battling for second place.

Gingrich’s moneybags Nevada billionaire and casino mogul Sheldon Adelson couldn’t buy Gingrich a win in Nevada, but that won’t stop him from continuing to throw money into the Republican primary. Adelson told the New York Times he is very much open to supporting Romney in the general election and plans to keep giving money. Sounds like Gingrich is in another “open” relationship.

In other weird Gingrich news, apparently Gingrich “hung out” with famed ’90s rapper MC Hammer in Vegas. The two were dining at the same restaurant but apparently Hammer was not impressed saying “I don’t care who wins from their side…It’s all scripted…I’m team #Obama…Newt is Newt…Uncut and unapologetic Theater.” Ouch. Please Hammer, don’t hurt ‘em!

Okay, sorry. That last joke was pretty bad, but this is what the Republican primary has reduced me to.

It wasn’t only Nevadans caucusing Saturday. Maine’s caucuses began and continue into the coming week with results announced February 11th. Delegates won’t actually be awarded though until the state convention in May, which may explain why no one has paid attention to the race. Early reports indicate it is a race between Romney and Paul as Romney continues on as the front-runner and Paul woos caucus states.

Minnesota has its caucus Tuesday and Paul made several visits to the state on Saturday. Thankfully I was preoccupied with family commitments otherwise I may have had to file this from the local jail.

Denver Broncos quarterback and darling of the anti-choice crowd Tim Tebow said he wouldn’t rule out a future in politics. Tebow has yet to endorse a candidate in the current Republican primary showing he may have some political sense in him after all.

Photo from Gage Skidmore via flickr.

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Ann S.

7:17PM PST on Feb 12, 2012

Ha, I hope you're kidding with that remark about Tebow having any political sense. Such a self-righteous individual who thinks he has been hand chosen by God himself to be a great football player is extremely lacking in any type of sense. Even when he has a "the holier-than-thou they are, the harder they fall" moment (i.e., his transition period from college to pro), he still never gets it. What does it take for such a pig-head to learn humility?

send a green star

Tricia H.

1:10PM PST on Feb 8, 2012

Thanks for the infor Romney, You Suck!!!

Nancy L.

8:40PM PST on Feb 7, 2012

As long as Obama is out.

Roger H.

12:49PM PST on Feb 7, 2012

Marianne,
As I see it, and I am not taking sides here, there is plenty of incivility coming from both the right and the left and the blame can be directed at both sides also. I will stand by my prior statement.
I don't see any end to the problems of this country as long as both sides cannot be civil to each other. How can we expect our representatives on both sides of the isle in congress to get anything accomplished when we ourselves can't even be civil to each other and have to blame the other side for the problem rather than shouldering some of the blame ourselves.

Name calling and derogatory talk gets you nowhere in solving a problem. This goes for the author of this blog also. I have called her on this before. As I said, I am not taking sides here and I am trying to show that using this type of language does nothing to improve the relations between sides in an argument or in this country for that matter. If both sides don't step back and accept some responsibility for their actions we are headed for another civil war or another Revolutionary war. I would say the same thing if it were a blog posted by a right wing conservative that baited the other side to stir up their anger.

Marianne C.

10:02AM PST on Feb 7, 2012

Frances:

It's always the same small group of righties who storm into a thread and start lobbing insults in every direction. Then they become quite, quite self-righteous and offended when people either laugh at them or tell them where the rubber meets the road.

And Roger, incivility is their weapon of choice. Since they have neither logic nor actual fact on their side, it's the only gun in their arsenal.

Catt R.

9:00AM PST on Feb 7, 2012

Diane O....."Okay, AnneC, I'll go there...600 people out of how many Americans and Brits? Miniscule. My goodness! Making blanket statements about all Americans and all republicans shows a level of immaturity IMO. That's right up there with all republicans are racist and have low IQ's. It's ludicrous. "

Now.... how many times have you posted that all Americans agree to such and such..... or even that the citizens of America have spoken and voted out a candidate you do not agree with[usually months if not years ahead of the election date you list as evidence in your post]??? It seems you feel that freedom in America means you are free to do as you please and we are free to do what YOU dictate....... I will pass, I prefer freedom for ALL citizens not just you and your ilk

Frances C.

8:27AM PST on Feb 7, 2012

I will just leave this site to the tea party righties today. Seems like they are out in force, albeit a small one.

Sandra S.

8:04AM PST on Feb 7, 2012

Roger H., words of wisdom and maturity.

7:08AM PST on Feb 7, 2012

It is obvious from the comments here, that there is no doubt why this country is in the mess it is currently in. If we can't be civil to each other at a social networking site this nation doesn't have a chance at a future.

10:10PM PST on Feb 6, 2012

Marge W:

I don't know about you, but Diane is older than I am, so she can't be trying to suggest that *I* am one of those "poorly and out of control older women."

But like you, I have to wonder about the construction and conjugation of that remark. I also have to wonder that she fails to see THAT as an attack, when she CLEARLY thinks that responding to pointless digs and jibes is an attack on her un-offending and un-sinning self.

Diane never seems to think that her baiting and needling and sniping and taunting and provoking is an attack.

The only thing she thinks is an attack is when someone responds with jeers, mockery, ridicule, scoffing, derision, sarcasm, amusement, or even boredom. She may not even understand that she earns these responses -- royally.