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From Mike Carlton
One of my new year's resolutions was to ignore the Republican primaries in the United States, but I have broken it already.
They have a horrible, irresistible fascination, not unlike watching a funnel web spider crawling across your lounge-room carpet. All those spray-on tans, those spray-on first names - Mitt, Newt, Rick, Ron - and worse, those spray-on opinions confected out there on the lunar right. These people have spun so far off any rational policy axis that they make George W. Bush look like a Roosevelt liberal.
Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, is the most worrying, if only because he's likely to be the winner to go up against Barack Obama. He made his multimillions as a rip'n'gouge venture capitalist, or whatever the buzz phrase is these days, preying on the carcasses of struggling companies and turning fat profits by the traditional method of sacking half the workforce and flogging off the bare bones of what was left.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/a-field-so-scary-that-you-cant-turn-away-20120120-1qa31.html#ixzz1k2eJAWUY
- By Gus Leonisky at 21 Jan 2012 - 8:53am
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no love lost...
The four remaining candidates appeared in a last-ditch debate before Saturday's South Carolina primary.
Mr Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum debated in Charleston after a dramatic day.
As Mr Gingrich gained on Mr Romney in the polls, an ex-wife revealed in an interview he wanted an "open marriage".
Meanwhile, Texas Governor Rick Perry pulled out of the race and Iowa said a vote mix-up meant Mr Romney had not won its caucuses.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16643430
going gingrich-ish...
Partial results suggest Newt Gingrich has convincingly beaten Mitt Romney in South Carolina's primary, the latest leg of the battle for the Republican candidacy in the US presidential poll.
With 70% of the vote counted, Mr Gingrich had 40% to Mr Romney's 26%.
Mr Romney was widely seen as the frontrunner, but the latest outcome is set to turn the race into a long, hard-fought campaign, correspondents say.
The South Carolina victor has won the nomination in each election since 1980.
Other Republican hopefuls, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum and Texas representative Ron Paul are trailing badly, with 18% and 13% respectively.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16669714