So what do you know? We’ve got a race on our hands now.  Newt Gingrich pulled an outstanding win in South Carolina with over 40 percent of the vote.  This came to nobody’s surprise after his huge performance at the beginning of the debate the night before, putting the liberal media in their place by blasting John King for his disgusting attack question to the former Speaker about the comments his ex-wife made.

We finally got the see the Newt that many people have been waiting to see.  In the words of his daughters, we've got to “stop seeing Saint Gingrich and got to see Nasty Newt.”  While I might have phrased it differently, “Nasty Newt” is who Obama needs to face if Newt were to get the nomination.  “Nasty Newt” harkens back to the days when Gingrich was Speaker and taking on Clinton every day, making sure the will of the Republican Party and conservative America would be taken care of.  Maybe it’ll be a role reversal next year with Gingrich in the White House instead, but I’d prefer a full Republican sweep in the fall.

Another turn of events this week was that the official Iowa results were posted and it turns out that Rick Santorum, not Mitt Romney, took the Hawkeye State.  This brings the score to a state of piece for the real Republican candidates.  Sorry to DJ Greenberg and all the other Libertarians, but Ron Paul is not a Republican, therefore there’s no way in hell that he is going to get the Republican nomination for President.

Speaking of Mitt, he will be releasing his tax returns today.  It’s a pretty risky move, seeing as they have been held onto just as close as President No-Budget-for-1000-Days’ college transcript and dissertation.  This does, however, get Rick Santorum off of his back about not releasing them.  Hopefully for Mitt they are squeaky clean and don’t have too many skeletons in them.

Finally, yesterday was the first day of absentee ballot voting for the Georgia Primary.  If you are registered at home, you need to get on that so that you can have your voice heard.  If you’d rather not go through that headache, you can register to vote down here in Statesboro.  Just go to the brick courthouse on Main Street and they’ll help you out or keep your eyes open for a College Republican or Young Democrat voter registration table.  They’ll be on campus usually every week.  Also, make sure you follow me on Twitter @GrandOldPartier so you can tell me how I’m doing or give me ideas about what you want me to write about.