REPUBLICANS TAKE OFF THE GLOVES, AIM FOR THE CROTCH

With the New Hampshire primary just a few hours away, Republican candidates continued to lob hand grenades at each other on Monday. John McCain accused Mitt Romney of being "half-man, half-goat" at a speech at a petting zoo in Derry, while Romney told VFW members in Hanover that McCain had engaged in consensual sex with Jane Fonda when the actress visited McCain's POW camp in North Vietnam. In an address to a 4th-grade class in Montpelier, Mike Huckabee declared that illegal immigrants were "the spawn of Satan," and that Rudy Giuliani had been harboring five of them in the trunk of his car for the past two months. In response, Giuliani explained that two of the individuals in question were his future wives.

The class informed Huckabee that he was campaigning in the wrong state.