Closet Alabama fan?

Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes: Crimson Tide

Alabama goes very, very red

To say the politics of Alabama have changed doesn’t quite capture it. The wildest dreams of Republicans have come true. They won everything in the November 2 elections: all statewide offices from top to bottom, both houses of the legislature for the first time in 136 years, a U.S. Senate seat, and six of the state’s seven U.S. House seats. The seventh is set aside under the Voting Rights Act as a majority-minority district and elected an African-American Democrat.

We wonder how Auburn-loving, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs feels about this.

Mike Allen’s POLITICO Playbook:

–SPOTTED, watching the Auburn-Georgia game on a laptop in Japan: Robert Gibbs. Auburn QB Cam Newton shook off controversy and led Auburn past Georgia, 49-31. Gibbs: “No one better in college football, period.”