Iowa Caucus on Thursday

By James Buchanan – EURO

We are rapidly approaching the first election in the Republican primary. The mainstream media reporters have been falling over each other focusing on Romney and Huckabee. Thankfully, these alleged front-runners have been bashing each other with attacks in an attempt to crawl over the mangled body of their opponent.

Fred Thompson has truly fallen off the radar screen plunging to three percent in one poll. Perhaps he will drop out of the race in another week or two. McCain’s “Open Borders” record has hurt him badly in Iowa, and Giuliani has never stood a chance there either.

While the media’s favorites are having a hard time, Ron Paul has moved up to 12 percent in one poll. It should be remembered that the polls don’t take into account cross-over votes from Democrats and Independents, who changed parties to vote for Ron Paul (the only viable anti-war candidate). John Zogby himself has said that Ron Paul will likely do much better than the polls are predicting.

Romney has been running ads blasting Huckabee for releasing 1,033 felons from prison including murderers and multiple DUI offenders. The media calls these “attack ads,” but I can’t fault Romney for telling the truth about Huckabee’s disgraceful record, especially when the mainstream media is failing once again to tell voters all the information they need to know. (more…)