In Iowa, Stage Right Is Crowded

As the curtain rises tonight in Ames-So-What (the one-night show in this town picked for geographic centrality is the silly Iowa straw poll/GOP fundraiser), Mitt Romney can't be heard, and Rick Perry has upstaged Sarah Palin who upstaged Michele Bachman who tripped Tim Pawlenty as Newt Gingrich forgot his lines after Mike Huckabee left the troupe.

Herman Cain and Jon Huntsman are understudies.

The refund line forms over here.