Whom did the Republican Establishment most want to destroy? That is the person they feared most. And for that very reason, this person should have been considered a true friend to America and Americans. Sh
Michele Bachmann has dropped out of the Republican presidential race after a poor result in Iowa. Votes were cast. They were counted. Bachmann did not get enough of them. Pure and simple, right? Well, yes and no. The method of casting votes in the Iowa Caucuses is indeed simple; and I have no reason to doubt the purity of the vote-counters. It was the process leading up to January 3rd that left some room for quibbling in the purity and simplicity departments. Indeed, the impurity in the process was precisely its lack of simplicity. In other words, the process was rigged with enough details to hide even a pretty chubby devil. Before moving on with the remainder of the nominating race, it behooves us to take a moment to poke around in those details until we expose at least the point of this devil's tail.
