NEW HAMPSHIRE & S. CAROLINA PRIMARIES

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Just a quick word on the upcoming New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries.

New Hampshire, as I have said, is a state with people that could be considered main stream USA. They are educated and fiercely independent. Their motto is LIVE FREE OR DIE or something like that. They are not going to put up with religious nonsense or the spouting of a too conservative social agenda, remember live free is their motto not be bound by some Dark Ages horseshit.

On the other hand, South Carolina is the opposite of New Hampshire in that they are very conservative, still fly the Dixie flag, are all about god and religion and would rather bash gays than allow them to marry.

Now I love Charleston and the people that I met there and I cannot say that ALL of South Carolina is regressive; they did just allow liquor out of a bottle and not just in airplane bottles.

Let’s just say that they have a ways to go to joining mainstream USA.

Rick Perry who lost BADLY in Iowa, did not go home as I had thought but will give his brand of religious politics one last try in South Carolina; why not.

Rick Santorum should do well in South Carolina but was booed in New Hampshire when he started bashing gays and gay marriage.

Mitt Romney is heavily favored in New Hampshire BUT the Boston Globe came out for Jon Huntsman; remember him?...remember also that Romney was the governor of Massachusetts.

Jon Huntsman has been biding his time. He is a moderate Republican who does not preach religion and so called family values hypocrisy; he feels religion is a private matter, not to be politically exploited (he is a Mormon like Romney).

Anyway, Huntsman has staked his run on states that better reflect his own ideals which are relatively progressive so campaigning in Iowa and South Carolina would have been a waste of time and money. So even though Romney is favored in New Hampshire, I am hoping Huntsman comes in second which will automatically garner him the media coverage that he needs to go forward.

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