Mitt Romney ended up winning Iowa by 8 eight votes over Rick Santorum. Both Candidates had 25% of the vote and Ron Paul was a distant 3rd with 21% of the vote. History has shown the top 3 candidates are the only candidates to do well for the rest of the primary process.
The story of the night will be Rick Santorum coming from low single digits last week to end up with 25% of the vote a week later.
I watched the entire process until 2am this morning and was able to hear more of Rick Santorum plans to do than I ever had before. I thought it important that I give a little more thought about Rick Santorum because I have been so critical of him, because he will be the "anti-Romney" for all intents and purposes.
Santorum I believe is a good guy with seemingly good intentions. With his speech last night he made clear he is for freedom and personal liberty. He is strong on abortion and homosexual marriage, but has said we recognize homosexual marriages, but we just don't call it marriage.
Last night Santorum expanded on his economic plan of
0% capital gains tax for manufacturing
cut the capital gains tax for all other business in half
make a 2 tier tax system 10 and 28% with only 5 deductions
Overal I came out of last night with a better view of Santorum, but he still makes me nervous by giving the Federal Government more power through being a moral standard versus giving the liberty back to the people.
Santorum seems to be the clear evangelical conservative pick and I'm out on whether I would vote 3rd party for Ron Paul or Santorum if he was the nominee against Obama.
Buckle up it will be fun to watch the rest of this primary. From here on out it will be a 3 way race of Paul, Romney, and Santorum.
The Bantam Voice
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