ABJ - January 3 - America’s silly season kicks off today with the Republican caucus vote in Iowa. Leading up to the polls, the major candidates were in full force.

Newt Gingrich, former Speaker under the Bill Clinton administration, made headlines earlier today in his accusation of Mitt Romney, calling the former Governor of Massachusetts a “liar.”

“It's just like this pretense that he's a conservative. Here's a Massachusetts moderate who has tax-paid abortions in Romneycare, puts Planned Parenthood in Romneycare, raises hundreds of millions of dollars of taxes on businesses, appoints liberal judges to appease Democrats, and wants the rest of us to believe somehow he's magically a conservative,” Gingrich said.

Romney, however, remains persistent in his objective of taking down incumbent President Barack Obama.

“I want to see America united,” Romney said. “I’ve watched a President who has become the great divider, the great complainer, the great excuse-giver, the great blamer. I want to have an America that comes together. I believe in the future of America.”

Texas Congressman Ron Paul remains the other major candidate with a strong chance to win in Iowa.

“I was elected 12 times once people got to know me in my own congressional district," Paul commented on his campaign. “I would say that I’m pretty mainstream. I think the people who are attacking me now are the ones who can’t defend their records and they’ve been all over the place.”

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Texas Governor Rick Perry, and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum round out of the list of major candidates for the Republican nomination.