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Bag’s Take-Away:
Norman Rockwell has left the building! At this point, I don’t blame the photogs in Iowa for playing the candidates for fools. It’s retribution for having to take these folks that seriously for that long. Love this one! Newt as a shadow of a real contender with a dash of Grand Dragon thrown in.
via: The Charlotte Observer, Daily Edit (#18)
(photo credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images caption: A news photographer photographs Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich during his speech at the Wakonda Club on December 30, 2011 in Des Moines, Iowa. The GOP presidential contenders are crisscrossing Iowa in the final stretch of campaigning in the state before the January 3rd caucus, the first test the candidates must face before becoming the Republican presidential nominee.)
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