Just as we predicted: "The fix seems to be in. It is Romney all the way for Iowa, no matter what the voters say: Ron Paul has no chance to be certified the winner with the Republicans doing the counting" (Dec. 29, 2011).
Deserving or not, Mormon or not, eight votes up or not, Romney has been selected to compete when the people want Ron Paul. To ensure that Paul gets no opportunity to gum up the system, fanatical Rick Santorum has been elevated to runner up. Sanctimonious Santorum is the fall back guy to push Romney to the right.What does a raucous caucus tell anyone? No black voters attend, none at all. It is by and large a conservative, Christian fundamentalist, all-white affair. Hispanics and Asians comprise 1%, which amounts to less than token status. Iowa's Republican straw poll process, caucus process, and primaries only set the tone for the selection.
As the dictator Joseph Stalin pointed out, "It doesn't matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes."
Elections (popular voting) have become a charade. We can say we elect people, but our electoral college systems shows that that was never the case even before Bush-Cheney instituted an easier way to manipulate elections. The Powers That Be (Wall Street bankers, Military-Industrial Complex officials, key figures in the shadow government, clandestine services directors, and occasionally movers and shakers) pre-select candidates, with money and through insider influence, and they control the counting of the votes.Bush, for example, was not elected. He was selected, twice. The people had no real say, just an opinion to manipulate and miscount by design. Romney? Fine. His father almost made it to the White House. He has a net worth of nearly a quarter billion. And his underwear are magical.
Willard "Mittens" Romney is a far better choice than the unbearable hubris of Washington-insider Newt Gingrich. But the only candidate with a difference, despite his many flaws, is Ron Paul, who must have known the power brokers were not going to give him a fair shake.