Brace Yourself For The Return Of South Carolina's Notoriously Awful Politics

If politics were, in fact, a game of beanbag, the South Carolina primary would be a bag of rusty nails. Alas, politics ain't beanbag. And South Carolina is just the campaign equivalent of throwing rusty nails at your rivals.

The first projectiles came on Thursday, as the remaining Republican presidential candidates descended on the Palmetto State to engage in some good ole-fashion dirt-slinging and innuendo.