Vote for Kodos | Lies, Damned Lies, & the News
I shall say only this about the New Hampshire primary: Why would Republicans or affiliated right-wing "independent" voters care whom the Boston Globe endorsed? That makes no more sense than Democrats or affiliated left-wing "independent" voters caring whom The Weekly Standard endorses. If Beantown's leading rag endorsed a candidate in the Republican primary, as it did Governor Huntsman, it could only be for one of two reasons: {a} the editors thought Mr. Huntsman would have no chance against President Obama in the general election & hoped to induce G.O.P. voters to set up the weakest possible challenge to Mr. Obama, or {b} the editors thought that if by some chance Mr. Huntsman did triumph over Mr. Obama that the former governor of Utah would conduct his administration in the fashion farthest to the left of any of the potential Republicans. There is much to like in what Governor Huntsman says, as well as much to dislike, but the question remains unanswered: What is it about Huntsman that makes him so relatively well-liked by those on the Left & viewed with such narrowed eyes by those on the Right?

Onward to South Carolina, where Speaker Gingrich will continue to act as a proxy for the Obama campaign, testing & honing arguments against Governor Romney for the general election.

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
The House Band, "Pharaoh" from Green Linnet Records: The Twentieth Anniversary Collection (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: I'm sure today's R.B.D.S.O.T.D. selection has naught to do with the fact that I'm currently reading Bram Stoker's mummy horror novel The Jewel of Seven Stars.

"And it's Egypt land, Egypt land,
We're all livin' in Egypt land,
Tell me, brother, don't you understand?
We're all workin' for the pharaoh."