The Ballad of Prick Erry

As the procession of people on book tours and social conservative vanity candidates to match or exceed Romney’s popularity shows, the GOP nomination was Rick Perry’s to lose. And, boy, did he lose it. Again, I’m very impressed that someone proved that you can be too dumb to be the Republican candidate for president.

It looks like Mittens might be the narrow nominal winner in Iowa after it looked like the froth would rise to the top for much of the night, but as Dave says he’s the winner either way. The only other candidates standing an unappealing conservative with no money and little national organization and a paleocon crank running a vanity campaign. It will be mildly fun to watch Newt go nuclear against him, but the most determined journalist is going to struggle to get drama out of this race.

…Shorter Santorum: “I am motivated by the dignity of every human life, except for the majority of the population I want to be second-class citizens.”

…Landslide Mittens takes it by 8 votes.