At least Newtron's going out as old Newt, for the ratings. But just look at the sort of thing poor forgotten Nevada is missing:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose support in Iowa has withered after riding on top of the polls, on Tuesday called former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney a liar who would mislead the American people if elected to the White House - but added that he would still vote for him if Romney won the GOP nomination.
Makes sense. If Republicans refused to vote for liars, no Republican candidate would ever be elected to anything ever again.
Anyway, if the Nevada Republicans hadn't decided to basically cancel their caucus as a going concern because some tinpot career politician in a lightly populated Boston exurb told them to, fun discussions such as the following about America's future could have been happening right here in Nevada:
CBS's Norah O'Donnell:"You scolded Mitt Romney, his friends who are running this Super PAC that has funded that, and you said of Mitt Romney, 'Someone who will lie to you to get to be president will lie to you when they are president.' I have to ask you, are you calling Mitt Romney a liar?"
Gingrich: ""Yes."
O'Donnell: "You're calling Mitt Romney a liar?"
Gingrich: "Well, you seem shocked by it. Yes."
Damn you, Nevada Republicans! Who knows if Newt or any of the other loons and twerps running for the GOP nomination will still be standing by the time they slog through South Carolina and Florida and the freak show finally makes it to Nevada next month, if it comes at all?
Sure, Willard will likely grace us with his presence. And so will doctor, congressman and erstwhile publisher of Racism, Homophobia and You, Ron Paul, presumably, since he'll try to stay in the race forever "for the cause." But no matter how entertaining any prospective attacks on Romney from Paul, a contest between just those guys would be a mere curiosity greeted by the nation and its media with a collective "meh."
And -- and! -- Newt and other hopeful anti-Romneys are focusing on South Carolina and more or less taking a pass on New Hampshire in the belief that Mittens has the latter nailed down. But if Gov. Brian Sandoval and Nevada's Republicans had demonstrated even a glimmer of pride in their state and refused to move their caucuses back to February, Nevada, not South Carolina, could have been the next place where Newt, frothy Santorum and the rest take it to Willard.
But no.
Nevada Republican National Committeeman Bob List, Jerry Tarkanian's daughter-in-law, who also chairs the state Republican Party, and especially the wildly overrated Sandoval, along with any and all other Republicans who bear responsibilitiy for this fiasco, should issue a formal apology to all of Nevada for letting their state down in such an ignominious and cowardly fashion. Losers.
Sigh. Since there is every chance that the Nevada Republican caucus will be both boring and pointless, maybe Harry Reid should fire up The Machine so everybody can have some fun.Secretly get tens of thousands (it shouldn't take that many) of Nevada Democrats to switch parties and caucus on the GOP side for ... oh, I don't know, Sharron Angle. Or The Wayner. Or Carrot Top, who is always a good suggestion for this sort of thing. "Carrot Top edges Romney in NV GOP caucuses." Who doesn't want to see that headline on Politico?
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