Cannibal act.......

The Republicans continue to perform their cannibal act minus Mr. Huntsman who just bolted leaving his votes to Mitt Romney; all four of them. Further to the ultra conservative uppity, uppity meeting here in Texas to identify someone, indeed anyone, capable of replacing Romney, a selection has been made.

They chose Rick Santorum. Rick is pretty far to the right. He would make Louis XIV look like a Bolshevik. He is also a Catholic which certainly grated all the Evangelical Protestants present and voting. Since Newt recently converted to Catholicism, they had little choice.

My point is that in spite of Mitt's remarkable polling performance to date, he is not the popular choice of the Republican right which, it appears, has the Party by the short and curlies. They pose a similar problem to Speaker of the House John Bhehner. Every time he negotiates a compromise with Obama, the right wing, Tea Party, and evangelical faction undermines his agreement.

Our forefathers stated that a proper democracy would be one of majority rule without tyranny against the minority. Too bad these lads failed to mention anything about minority tyranny in which a very small percentage of the people are able to successfully block almost any legislation, action plan or proposal put forward by their party.

Meanwhile, Mitt is stretching his lead among South Carolina voters while his opponents continue to debate whether he is a good capitalist or a bad one. Not that it makes any difference. The main event of South Carolina is to learn whether or not this deep southern state will accept the leadership of a moderate Yankee who happens to be a Mormon. By rights, its vote should go to Newt Gingrich. But Newt has fouled his nest so often that all the southern charm in his repertoire could not sanitize his record.

Newt is like an errant teenager who having made a bad call, continues to justify it to the point of absurdity.