And the hit jobs just keep on comin’ in the Hawkeye State’s GOP presidential slapfight.
• Rick Perry goes cartoon in his latest Iowa TV spot.
Got that? “The fox guarding the henhouse is like asking a Congressman to fix Washington. Bad idea.”
Wait – isn’t that backwards? Then again, this is Rick Perry we’re dealing with.
• Mitt Romney’s gunsels at Restore Our Future ignore the other Capitol Hill hacks and zero in on Newt Gingrich.
Make no mistake: Restore Our Future will pile-drive Gingrich right through the South Carolina primary, after which Gingrich will be Newtered.
• Meanwhile, Romney himself gets to shift into “I See an America” mode.
Got that? “When generations of immigrants looked up and saw the Statue of Liberty for the first time, one thing they knew beyond any doubt, and that is they were coming to a place where anything was possible . . .”
Even President Mitt Romney.
Yikes.
Campaign Outsider 
It lasted for only a second, but a few frames of the Romney spot showed a ROBOT assembling a chassis. There are immense factories all over Ammurrica employing a fraction of the workers they would have put on the payroll were it not for automating the plant. Nothing will stop that from happening in the future. Many of the candidates in the Republican clown car are living in the past.