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There will be tons of competition for this distinction as the day (and night, and early next morning) proceeds, but here’s the early front-runner.

It comes from Bob Fish, a heretofore obscure Republican Party official in West Virginia, and was given to ABC News. Fish was asked to respond to the aggrieved charges of unfair play coming from the Mitt Romney camp after he lost Super Tuesday’s first battle, the fight for the Mountain State’s 18 GOP delegates.

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The Romney backers were upset, understandably, that Mike Huckabee’s come-from-behind win resulted from an alliance -- tacit or not -- between Huckabee supporters and those who initially had voted for John McCain.

Said Fish of the bellyaching: ‘Welcome to politics.’

You can read the rest of the ABC story here.

-- Don Frederick

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