Four states down and only forty-six more to go! Next up is Nevada, where three villains and one hero will clash over who will take the reigns of the GOP elephant! Regardless of what happens, Romney will still have the reigns, as Florida gave him so many delegates that it’ll take a few solid wins or second place finishes for one of the other candidates to catch up, which can be done fairly quickly mind you. Newt Gingrich could come out strong, Ron Paul’s already got the jump on the others and Santorum may just generate enough wacky religio-fascist rhetoric to get the crazy cultic mole men who live in the Vegas sewers to rise up in the streets just long enough to cast their vote. I’ve been told that this overly-religious subterranean sect of mole men are nothing more than an urban legend but when I was in Vegas about six months ago, I could’ve sworn that I saw a few wandering around the dumpsters behind Circus Circus. I found it odd that they had two lesbian Thai prostitutes chained to the hood of an ’85 Yugo GV in some sort of sacrificial rite but this was Vegas and I never involve myself in religious mumbo jumbo – so I kept on walking. Plus I tripped and crashed through a table full of pills earlier in the night, so my head could’ve been providing me with some form of strange entertainment that no one else could see.

Anyway, one big plus for us Ron Paul fans is that the Grandmaster of Constitutional Liberty ditched Florida and went on the road elsewhere, one of these places being Nevada. Dr. Paul beat the other three candidates to the punch, as two out of the three of them wasted so much of their time and money in a state where they walked away with nothing more than a kick in the balls and a slap on the back. So who’s the most economical candidate, I have to ask?

Ron Paul’s events in the Battle Born State have been met with great fanfare and he’s getting a lot of support from the people out there in the neon desert. Now will this translate to votes? I certainly hope so but just like in other states, this trend hasn’t necessarily worked in Dr. Paul’s favor. He had great events in South Carolina while Newt Gingrich had to cancel a major event just before the primary out there due to “lack of interest”. Strangely, Newt Gingrich won South Carolina by a large margin and Paul finished last. This could be because Paul’s supporters are so passionate and gung ho that they’ll attend every event in an attempt to push their candidate to the moon while the supporters of Gingrich, Santorum and in many cases Romney are just couch potato assholes that don’t pay much attention, have no passion and only go out to vote based off of two things: Fox News tells them to hate Obama and Fox News tells them that Ron Paul is crazy. I hope the Drunken Party State doesn’t follow this bullshit craze because from my time out there, these people don’t seem like they need a shepherd.

However, polls indicate that Romney is going to take Nevada as well and it looks as if Paul will be in last place. When you peel back the surface on Nevada, especially Las Vegas, you come to see that the town is pretty much run by unions. All the casino employees are unionized and therefore are probably going to want to protect their jobs and their benefits by voting for one of these progressive liberal conservatives. Hell, this state has been voting for Harry Reid for what seems like centuries now. Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle nearly beat him in 2010 though and there is a lot of speculation that there was foul play and election fraud going on the day of the election, so who’s to say that there isn’t a big front of fiscally responsible conservatives that want a better candidate that can and will bring forth positive change economically? Then again, in their short history, the Tea Party has proven to be more rhetoric than action. In the case of Nevada, a poll today shows that Tea Party members are split between Romney and Gingrich with Ron Paul dead last! What the hell is wrong with these people? Everything they say is completely different than how they vote! The Tea Party has no room to bitch anymore. That’s it! They’re done!

Despite how this is seemingly projected to go, the Nevada caucuses have not happened yet and, as this race has proven, anything can happen. I think Ron Paul’s doing better out there right now than some of these polls indicate based off of his early arrival and successful events. Romney is the man to beat however and he is in a position where he can pull away with the nomination. Being the favorite and having a significant advantage in the number of delegates collected, Mr. Mittens is on the verge of solidifying his position as Barack Obama’s 2012 nemesis. As I’ve said, the others can rock out and catch up but it will not be easy by any means. If Romney wins Nevada and the next few states after, the GOP voter base will pretty much fall in line and unify behind their top dog and will just make the rest of his primary journey that much easier.

Now is the time to pull out the big guns and take it to Mitt. I still believe that this is a two man race between Romney and Paul, as Newt, even with his successes, continues to crash and burn week after week and Santorum is just a dickbag dork that can only rally people who are Jesus freaks and too inept to remotely follow politics on a real level. If Paul can win this or finish in a strong second, he is still solidly in the hunt. If he finishes last and then has a few not-so-great performances post-Nevada, this thing may be over. Dr. Paul’s message is spreading like it never has before. The question is, has it truly penetrated Nevada yet? We shall see shortly.

Keep in mind that what happens in Vegas, affects the whole country – if not the whole world. I’m hoping that my home away from home doesn’t disappoint me like Florida did. Truth be told, I’m looking for real estate outside of this phallically-shaped state.