Let's take a little peek inside the GOP clown car shall we?

So currently the media are only considering three individuals as REAL contenders for the GOP nomination, and they are Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich. (Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum could not get media attention right now if they immolated themselves on the steps of Capitol Hill.)

Personally I think that Mitt will end up with the nomination, and that this it is all smoke and mirrors from the other potential candidates, but let's go ahead and pretend this is an actual contest.

First up we have Newt Gingrich.

"Look I stand on my record. Unless you bring up embarrassing things in my record, in which case I deny it is my record."

The breaking story about him today is that the divorce papers from the end of his first marriage have now been made public.  And guess what? Newt may have lied about exactly WHO filed for that divorce. (I know, shocking isn't it?)

The documents, and interviews with people close to the couple at the time, contradict the Gingrich claim about who wanted the divorce. 

Newt Gingrich filed a divorce complaint on July 14, 1980, in Carroll County, saying that "the marriage of the parties is irretriebably (sic) broken."  

Jackie Battley Gingrich, the congressman's wife and the mother of Jackie Gingrich Cushman, responded by asking the judge to reject her husband's filing. 

"Defendant shows that she has adequate and ample grounds for divorce, but that she does not desire one at this time," her petition said. 

"Although defendant does not admit that this marriage is irretrievably broken, defendant has been hopeful that an arrangement for temporary support of defendant and the two minor daughters of the parties could be mutually agreed upon without the intervention of this court," her petition said. "All efforts to date have been unsuccessful." 

So essentially Newt's attempts to suggest that his first wife wanted out of the marriage, and filed for divorce, is NOT back up by the actual evidence. But what might prove just as damaging is a former friend's suggestion for why Newt REALLY wanted out of the marriage in the first place. 

Leonard H. "Kip" Carter, a former close Gingrich friend, backed the contention that it was Newt Gingrich who wanted the divorce. 

"He (Gingrich) said, 'You know and I know that she's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of a president,' " Carter, who now lives in South Carolina, told CNN recently, relating the conversation he had with Gingrich the day Gingrich revealed he was filing for divorce. Carter served as treasurer of Gingrich's first congressional campaigns.

Newt has been given a pass by the Evangelicals despite his numerous marriages. and numerous episodes of marital infidelity. But really HOW MUCH can these people forgive before the lies and cheating become too much for even their built in hypocrisy to handle?

The guy is beyond scummy and there is NO way he can stand next to the President without looking like a trenchcoated pervert bussed in from a local playground.

He has no real chance.

So that brings us to Ron Paul.

For awhile Paul was the darling of the media who had decided that he may be the one candidate who could not be labeled with the dreaded "flip-flopper" designation.

However though he did not change his position on things, exactly what kind of positions did he take?

Currently the internet is all abuzz about racist remarks that appeared on the Ron Paul newsletters from the 1990's. Newsletters that he now says he did not have much to do with, and claims that the racist remarks found on them are not from his hand. (Though in 1995 he expressed great pride in his newsletters.)

However the Washington Post Fact Checker does not buy it:

Paul offers implausible explanations for why so many derogatory statements made it into his publications, insisting he knew nothing about them. It’s hard to believe that a man who wants to oversee the entire U.S. government — albeit a smaller version — would provide zero oversight of his publications, or even bother to read them from time to time. 

And just in case you did not think these remarks were inflammatory enough to derail his campaign, Business Insider has some tweets, that contain actual excerpts from these newsletters, that you need to see.

So much for Ron Paul.

Which brings us at last to Mitt Romney.

"Look I realize I'm not the man of your dreams. But we both know your going home with me eventually."

The current news making the rounds about Mittens that is giving the American people pause, is that he has refused to provide his tax records. Here is his excuse:

“We don’t have any current plans to release tax returns, but never say never,” he said today after greeting voters at an Agway farm and hardware store here. 

“We’ll see what the future holds. We’ve released of course all of the information required by law, which is a pretty extensive release. But down the road we’ll see what happens if I’m the nominee.” 

Romney also suggested that he could be utilizing a “carried interest” provision in the tax code that allows investors to qualify for a 15 percent tax rate on capital gains earnings, rather than pay the 35 percent income tax rate for the wealthiest taxpayers. “I can tell you we follow the tax laws, and if there’s an opportunity to save taxes, we like anybody else in this country will follow that opportunity,” he said.

Comparatively speaking this might seem a rather insignificant concern, however in today's political climate, with the Occupy protesters constantly in the news and voters expressing outrage at how the top 1% keep refusing to pay their fair share, it might prove to have serious consequences once Mitt is the nominee. Especially since I am pretty confident that the records will indicate that Mitt has probably NOT paid his fair share of taxes in quite some time. 

We don't really think this picture was a fluke do we?

Besides, Romney's a Mormon. I know it should not matter, but I also know that it really, really, really does matter to a large number of religious folks in this country.

Which, by the way, is the REAL reason he has not been able to get more than 25% in the national polls.

Let's face it, considering the amount of baggage these clowns are carrying on the GOP side, when all is said and done we already know who will emerge victorious after the polls close in November.

I knew you'd come around.