Even as the voting begins in New Hampshire, Republican hopefuls are on their way to the next stop – South Carolina (I think). Suddenly, things get a lot less white (except for the remaining candidates, of course, who are all as white as Wonder Bread – whose parent company, Hostess, is filing for Chapter 11, due to a drop in the sale of Twinkies).

Plenty of Twinkies still running for the Republican nomination, though. SC could be a big win for that biggest of Twinkies with the frothy filling – Rick Santorum. Supposedly he’s the darling of the “true” Conservatives, and the SC GOP loves itself some Christian Conservative.

Though it’s not over, especially with the news that Newt appears to have the coveted Carl Paladino endorsement. Carl likes him some Newt, in part because

…he can cry…just like Boehner

As for his opinion on the other GOP hopefuls?

…all the rest of them are toast,” he said. “Ron Paul’s going to get on the mother-ship and go back to the mother planet. You got Huntsman, he’s going to go live in China. Perry wants a job, he’s going to go the shooting range and hang around there awhile. I mean this is nonsense — it’s all bullshit.”

Huntsman in particular rubbed him the wrong way by speaking Chinese on stage in the previous debate.

“‘Oh, the Chinese are so strong,’ what the fuck is wrong with these people?” he said. “He should move to China.”

Amen, Uncle Carl. Amen.

As for me, if I was a Republican, I think I’d go with Ted Nugent.