The Rod Martin Report: February 5, 2016

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by Rod D. Martin
February 5, 2016

The Half-Full Report is Dr. Jack Wheeler's weekly column at To The Point News. Rod is filling in for Jack this month.

The winner:

Believe it or not, the New Hampshire primary is Tuesday. So it probably matters to fully grasp the fallout from Iowa first.

A year ago, we were endlessly told that "Republicans won't vote for anyone but a governor." The governors -- all of them put together -- got just 8.3%, compared to 9.3% for the distant fourth-place Ben Carson. Indeed, the outsider candidates – Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina – got a combined 90.7% of the vote. Dropping Rubio (the new Establishment choice), Paul and Fiorina (because one is out and the other will be soon) still gets you 61.2%.

That's about as big a repudiation of the Republican Establishment as you could get.

That Establishment is scrambling of course. Having sometime ago anointed Rubio as their replacement for Bush, they’ve lately warmed up to Donal…