Sunday, January 22, 2012
The real winner in yesterday’s S.C. primary: Barack Obama
After hearing about Newt Gingrich big South Carolina win yesterday, the Hub Blog mind hippity-hopped back to this pre-primary Michael Barone column headlined “As S.C. goes, so could U.S.” … Well, it’s not going to happen. Newt Gingrich will not be “standing on the West Front of the Capitol taking the oath of office” next January because of the S.C. vote. More than likely, that man will be Barack Obama, for yesterday’s primary outcome wasn’t so much a victory for Newt and a defeat for Mitt, but rather it was a huge win for Obama, who gets to sit on the sideline as the GOP applies a self-imposed divide-and-conquer strategy on itself.
Update -- Of course, Obama could still yet annoy the hell out of everyone before the election. Reader No. 1 on the linked Dowd column: "A small masterpiece. And yet, he will probably get another four years to be unappreciated and misunderstood."
Update II -- Here's perhaps the best and most succinct explanation yet on why Gingrich won: “Wow, I am so totally shocked that a social con sorta won Iowa, a northeasterner won New Hampshire and a southerner won South Carolina. Look out establishment, it’s anything goes!!!!”
After hearing about Newt Gingrich big South Carolina win yesterday, the Hub Blog mind hippity-hopped back to this pre-primary Michael Barone column headlined “As S.C. goes, so could U.S.” … Well, it’s not going to happen. Newt Gingrich will not be “standing on the West Front of the Capitol taking the oath of office” next January because of the S.C. vote. More than likely, that man will be Barack Obama, for yesterday’s primary outcome wasn’t so much a victory for Newt and a defeat for Mitt, but rather it was a huge win for Obama, who gets to sit on the sideline as the GOP applies a self-imposed divide-and-conquer strategy on itself.
Update -- Of course, Obama could still yet annoy the hell out of everyone before the election. Reader No. 1 on the linked Dowd column: "A small masterpiece. And yet, he will probably get another four years to be unappreciated and misunderstood."
Update II -- Here's perhaps the best and most succinct explanation yet on why Gingrich won: “Wow, I am so totally shocked that a social con sorta won Iowa, a northeasterner won New Hampshire and a southerner won South Carolina. Look out establishment, it’s anything goes!!!!”
