Billions of words later, that's all they got.

The Tea Party killed the Tea Party.

And stayed home after being disgusted with the clown car show they just saw. Romney is still a formidable foe for Obama.

has no clue about the working people in this country. I think once Obama really gets going and showing how the republicans aren't for the working people any republican will loose.

Romney has a lot of vulnerabilities, real and perceived. However, the guy is slick, good looking, talks well has a solid business background in this economy, a former governor and other seemingly positive things going for him. OTOH, these can and should become big liabilities as the devil is in the details, as they say. The biggest challenge will be to overcome the tremendous avalanche of money that will be dumped in Romney's favor to cover these liabilities and make them seem like good things during the runup to the GE.

What a joke. If you can't get Iowa republicans to come to your clown show . . .

Remember...a lot of the teabagger "enthusiasm" came at the cost of Democratic apathy...voters pissed at Obama or their congresscritter and didn't bother to vote. The teabagger margins of victory in many races were thin but there were enough of them to make it seem like some massive wave had overtaken the country and it surely was taken that way by the rushpublican party.

Supposedly last night was a record turn out for rushpublicans but considering all the attention and money thrown at this demolition derby the returns were far from what I'm sure was expected. I had heard initial predictions of over 200,000 to be at the cacuses...then it was scaled back to 150...and now 123,000 (vs. 122,000 in 2008) really isn't that impressive. And this happened despite the weather being nice for Iowa in January.

Remember that the Democrats drew more than twice this number in 2008 and hopefully a solid majority of those will be going to the polls in November...not sitting home and delivering Iowa to the Democratic column.

Romney supposedly 'won' by a mere 8 votes. I hope they come out in droves in November!

That's it in a nutshell.

It's the same reason so many of them were undecided in polls up to the day before the primary.

real estate, the price of farm land was going through the roof because of the greatly inflated price of food.

With Iowa being a major agricultural state; much of which is benefitting from this increase in land prices after decades of decrease or stagnation, perhaps they're doing better than much of the nation and thus less motivated to rock the boat.

If my hypothesis is correct it may premature to gauge Republican Enthusiasm based solely on Iowa.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.