Monday, April 28, 2008

People I Hope I Never See Again After This Election

1. Jeremiah Wright.

Unbearable in every way. Obama is a politician, and he's a pastor Wright insists. From his recent talk with the National Press Club however, Wright solidified his political skill credentials. That guy can dodge, duck, and dart more artfully than Dodger in Dickens' "Oliver Twist."

2. John & Elizabeth Edwards.

He's been off the frontpage news for a while now. Let's just hope it stays that way. Almost as unbearable as the man himself is his wife. She has a serious cancer. God keep and bless her. But when she enters the political scene, you KNOW who really controls the vault at the Edwards mansion.

3. Bill Clinton.

Dick Morris has said that he likes Bill but can't stand Hillary. Many others agree. What this election cycle has shown Bill Clinton's nasty side. We all knew he could explode at town hall meetings, but who could have predicted the shameless use of race against Obama by the most prominent Democrat of recent history, former President Bill Clinton?

4. Mike Huckabee.

I WISH he's dissapear, but I get the feeling he'll be around in 2012, pumping up to run yet another jealous anti-Romney run for the presidency. Here's what Huckabee brought, aside from his jokes and gaffes: he brought a flaming anti-Mormon sentiment into the campaign. Partly through his inadvertant or not-so-inadvertant reference to Mormon theology. His use of identity politics to draw in christian voters was also a turn-off to conservative jews, mormons, catholics...and heck, even atheists (but they're always turned off).

5. Fred Thompson.

There were a few moments I admired Thompson. But reflecting back, I can see more clearly now (the rain has gone) that Fred was too lazy. Everything he did reinforced this sentiment about his character. Even the responses to the criticism were lazy. My conclusion is that Thompson is back where he belongs: Hollywood. God Bless You Fred, but heck, that was a yawn of a run for the presidency.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Romney v. Huckabee

The arguments between Huckabee and Romney supporters continues (with myself participating). The issues that continue to be raised are...

1. Romney used his Mormonism to "shield" himself.

2. Huckabee used his evangelicalism to draw in evangelical voters.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Quote of the Week

"If had only said he bombed the building in Oklahoma City to protest American "imperialism," [Timothy] McVeigh, too, could be teaching at Northwestern University, sitting on a board with and holding fundraisers for presidential candidate B. Hussein Obama."

~Ann Coulter

Monday, April 21, 2008

My VP poll

Reasons I chose those folks for the poll.

#1. Level of name relevancy

#2. People who could actually by President on Day One

#3. People whose names have been put forth the most often by pundits

So obviously I put Condi's name on there too soon, considering that she has not publicly said she is not seeking the Veep spot. Romney is on there because...well, besides being the most mentioned name as McCain's running mate, this IS a Romney site. Pawlenty and Steele are two other names that come up quite often. And then there is Rush Limbaugh's suggestion of Bobby Jindal. I happen to think Jindal needs to do his work in Louisiana, but Haley Barbour has been around long enough to be on the list. Mark Sanford, despite the rumors, is still a logical choice that McCain might consider. Kay Bailey Hutchison is was my own personal quirky pick, and Rob Portman's name has been circulated a lot too.

So the people I didn't pick were folks like Tom Ridge, who is pro-choice (as is Condi, but that doesn't come out much), Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin (like Jindal, a premature choice), and Marsha Blackburn, whose name is almost never mentioned.

A few thoughts

If Townhall.com commenters are any indication of the larger electorate (of course they are to some extent), then it would seem that there is no peace to be made with either Mike Huckabee's supporters or Mitt Romney's supporters if either were chosen as John McCain's running mate.

There are a lot of factors swirling in the Townhall comment-o-sphere. There are a few people for whom Romney is a power-hungry man who will stop at nothing to buy the presidency. My opinion is that this stems from a belief that rich people are inherently power-hungry or even evil. Mitt Romney and his appearance provides the perfect opportunity for these people to project their worst fears in one person.

MittWatch for Today

1. A "Mitt For Veep" site is launching later today. One of the folks launching the site emailed me today and said he was linking to my site as well. My deepest gratitude to him!

http://www.mittforveep.com/

2. Slate.com has a snarky article on why McCain Romney is a "dream" ticket for Democrats. Among other such nonsense, the article is written in such a way that portrays Romney as continuously changing his mind. Romney is campaigning for McCain, therefore Romney flip-flopped. In the eyes of some, he can do no right, even if it is campaigning for McCain.

http://www.slate.com/id/2189589/

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Going to be better

Ok, so I haven't exactly done the MittWatch like I should be. But after this Friday, I'll be back on track.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

This captures it perfectly

"The winner of the Democratic primary is always the candidate who does the best impersonation of an American. "~Ann Coulter

Sunday, April 13, 2008

What Obama Deserves

In the beginning, there was Bill and Hillary Clinton. They were all that for the Democratic party, until one day, a youth by the name of Barack Obama came to steal the show.

Many convservative pundits made a big mistake in this year's primaries. They adulated Obama, merely because he was not Hillary Clinton. The narrative was "Hillary is inevitable, and she is dangerous, and she's a liar." All true. BUT, less true about Obama? Not only did Democrats fall at Obama's feet when he uttered "new politics" "hope" and "change," but so did many conservatives. Not that they would vote for him, but he was better than Hillary. I was one such observer.

But as the recent weeks have shown, Barack Obama is anything but new politics. He is connected to the corrupt Tony Rezko. Another money-connected pol. He is anything but hope, with friends like Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who in addition to being anti-white, is anti-semitic (pals around with the infamous Louis Farrakhan). He is anything but change, because he advocates the usual quasi-socialis economic policies of old.

Barack Obama was a winning narrative: a Kenyan father, a white American mother, and a childhood in Indonesia and Hawaii. Private schools to the Harvard Law Review. But as his recent phraseology has shown, he views guns and God as refuges that people (Pennsylvanians) cling to because they are irrational minds.

Two months ago, as Guy Benson recounts in his most recent column: ( http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/04/13/obamas_buddy_list ), Obama has said things that are self-damning. He wants to condemn John McCain for his associates--but Obama's buddies are far more reprehensible.

What Obama Deserves. What he deserves is an ad from McCain's campaign, calling him out exactly on the point above. What he deserves is to be called out on his lack of congressional leadership. While Barack Obama calls for bi-partisanship, we know that nobody was more partisanly far-left than he has been so far in his first senate term. What Barack Obama deserves is to be called out on the lack of back-up on his claims. John McCain can do such a calling-out, because unlike Barack Obama, McCain truly has been bi-partisan---to the chagrin of many fellow Republicans. Nobody has reached across the aisle as much as McCain, and evidence is his good friendship with Sen. Joe Lieberman, his co-sponsored bills with Senators Ted Kennedy and Russ Feingold.

The bills aren't legacies he should be proud of, but the point is that McCain--NOT OBAMA--is the bi-partisan one.

Barack Obama doesn't have the record to run for president. He hasn't brought anyone together. What he has done is puff up his rhetoric, his resume, and attempt to hide some of the friends he's not so proud of.

What Barack Obama deserves is for his bubble to be burst, and for his posturing to be revealed as empty.

Delegate Wars



I guess "The Saga Begins" was a little premature, but nevertheless, a very amusing post I made with photoshop.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Obama's Version of The Lord's Prayer

""Our Government, who art in Washington, hallowed be thy name. Thy (socialist) kingdom come, our (socialist agenda) be done, in America, as it is in Venezuela. And give us this day, our daily bread, and everything else we need. And forgive us our trespasses, like owning guns and believing in God. And lead us into utopia, but deliver us from reality. For thine is this country, and power, and glory...for ever and ever, AMEN.""

*sigh*

If you haven't heard already, the most ridiculous story of the century is the story about the preschool kid who slapped a classmate's butt and has bee labeled a sexual predator. His record will carry that label from here on in.

Spouted your coffee on the monitor yet? Good. Because you read right. Mark Steyn's latest column is on that subject, Here...

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/school-old-sexual-2016809-year-officials

Who runs the schools? Liberals do. Or at least, liberal policies do. Liberal ideas about education, which, among other things, say that it is no business of the parent as to whether or not the schoool gives sex-education to their children. Because, you know...kids are human too! They have sexual feelings too! Ask Judith Levin! Here...

http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/voicebox/puberty/main.asp

Why on earth are we criminalizing a 6-year-old First Grader for a butt slap...but promoting the idea that young kids "find their sexual identity"?

Looking back on the primaries

The Article I'm about to link to (Gary Ater at American Chronicle) got me thinking about conservatives and the anti-McCain spat during the primaries. First, the link...

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/58217

I was one of those anti-McCain people. I supported Romney, and the disputes between McCain and Romney, and Huckabee and Romney had my blood boiling. But like many other conservatives, McCain was the last on my list of candidates.

Now that the GOP primaries are over, most talk radio hosts and pundits who opposed McCain have now come over to his side are are supporting him.

The question is, why all the anger in the first place? McCain has been the he is for quite a long time, and conservatives have butted heads with him in the past. We knew what he was all about, and that's why we didn't want him. But the anger can be explained another way. First, that the Democrats were having a heydey with their two favorite candidates. It was almost unfair that Republicans couldn't love their candidates as much. Just as the Democrats were getting candidates they agreed with, THIS TIME, we (conservatives) felt, we want someone who has no cracks in the conservative armor. We love Dubya, but we don't want another Dubya. We loved Reagan, but Reagan made mistakes. THIS TIME, we thought, we want someone who is everything we believe in.

Both parties' voters feel the weight of having to 'compromise' on a candidate they don't completely agree with. Senator John Kerry was a "compromise" because he was going to continue the Iraq war, was not going to implement universal health care, and was only for "civil unions." Add to that the fact that Kerry didn't exactly exhude The Common Man theme, while George W. Bush did. And finally with Obama and Hillary, things felt right (er, left), things felt good.

Republicans had less of a hard time accepting their candidates. Despite differences with Bush on illegal-immigration, spending, or even the Iraq War, most conservatives still like Bush on a personal level.

So when the winds shifted, and the Republican candidate field was filled with problematic candidates, it was inevitable that John McCain would get blasted. In reality, Senator McCain is no farther left than Bush or Reagan, except perhaps on business.

There was long stretch period where Republicans where trying to figure out who was going to be The Man. At first it was Giuliani, because he had name recognition and was seen as having a lot of crossover appeal. But as talk radio host Michael Savage has phased it, Giuliani didn't play much beyond the Potomac.

Then there was Fred Thompson who lead Giuliani in the polls for some weeks, despite the fact he hadn't even announced. But Thompson never defeated the stigma that he was a lazy man, and his late entry into the race only confirmed the stigma. I figure, if you can't beat the stigma about being lazy, it probably means you ARE lazy.

So the race was whittled down, and the three remaining candidates were John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul. Putting Paul aside, voters were starting to realize that they weren't going to choose a candidate they agreed with completely (which would have been someone like Fred Thompson)...for various reasons, enough people were drawn to McCain to beat out Romney. By the time Romney dropped out, he and McCain were close in popular votes, and closer in the delegate count.

It was a self-flagellation process that Republican voters went through this past primary season, and the candidate we ended up choosing was the one we thought we were farthest from. Why? Because John McCain, we realized, was the most seasoned candidate we had ever had. Nobody, Reagan or Bush, was as qualified a human being as McCain to become President of the United States.

It's also strange to observe the --again, shifting winds--place that GOP voters are at right now, versus the place Democratic voters are at right now. The Obama VS Hillary narrative has only gotten more and more heated, while GOP voters have healed their wounds and are prepared to vote for McCain.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Bob Novak's Insider View

This bit in Bob Novak's new report give us the inside gossip on Mitt and McCain. Basically, he says, McCain still views Romney as problematic, and favors Pawlenty. Meanwhile, down in Florida, Jeb Bush favors Romney for VP. Which is somewhat weird.


Story is here:
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/RobertDNovak/2008/04/12/making_joe_go

What's so weird about it? Well, a few months ago Bob Novak reported that Jeb Bush was one of the reasons that Mitt lost Florida's primary.

Near-midnight News Roundup

1. This is very interesting. A piece from Computerworld.com. It's tells of "cybersquatting," a form of hacking that allows hackers to intercept incoming and outgoing emails. It's complicated, but very interesting. The important part is that this hacking method was pulled on the websites of Hillary, Barack, and Mitt.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=13&articleId=9077198&intsrc=hm_topic

2. Via the Pasadena Star-News, an article about candidates who may vie Gov Schwarzneggar's spot when he leaves office. Among the Republican side, Meg Whitman, outgoing executive of eBay. While campaigning for Romney, she got interested in the process etc, and we should all expect her to seek office.

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/opinions/ci_8895779

Money Matters

From the WSJ Blog--this piece about McCain helping Giuliani, and Romney and Giuliani helping McCain. And Huckabee helping Huckabee...

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/04/11/mccain-campaign-directs-donors-to-aid-giuliani/?mod=WSJBlog

Romney as fill-in radio host

Not that Hugh Hewitt, Mitt Romney or anyone famous will be reading this blog anytime soon, but...after subbing for Paul Harvey yesterday, I'm convinced Mitt would do an awesome job as guest-host on Hugh Hewitt's show.

Thoughts on the Mitt vs Mike/ Mitt vs Mac dynamic

As we all know, one of the things that is keeping Mitt Romney from being the definitive VP choice for McCain is the fact that he and Mitt didn't get along well during the primaries. At all. There was that contentious debate at the Ronald Reagan Library. Some of the famous lines ran somthing like this....

Mitt:..and I guess if the NYT endorses you, it means you're not a conservative."
~
Mac: I have you know, your home paper, the Boston Herald endorsed me, my friend."

And then there was the highly publicized spat about McCain saying that Romney was calling for Iraq-pullout timetables.

So it wasn't exactly a professional rivalry. On the other hand, Mitt Romney and John McCain seem more likely to get over their differences than Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee.

What's the difference between their rivalries? For one thing, I got the feeling that Mike Huckabee was not competing for the nomination as he was against Mitt Romney. Even when Mitt dropped out, Huckabee stayed in. Why? Not because he was competing for the nominating or giving the "voters a choice." What he was really doing was catching up with Mitt Romney's delegate numbers.

Mike Huckabee made it personal against Mitt. What's my evidence? Consider these words uttered through-out the primaries...

1. “I wouldn’t know which – let’s see, do you hold this end, or this end?. I’d be like Mitt Romney eating fried chicken."

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/01/29/politics/fromtheroad/entry3764319.shtml

2. "If a man is dishonest to obtain a job, he'll [be dishonest] on the job." ~Huckabee in the infamous Huckabee Iowa Ad.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/31/540416.aspx?p=2

What's my thesis? McCain hated Romney because he was getting in the way. But Mike Huckabee hated Romney because he was jealous of Romney.

Now we're seeing a continuing Huckabee vs. Romney war: the recent petition (www.nomittforvp.com) by Huckabee supporters to openly oppose Romney as a VP pick.

Further narrative that Mike Huckabee is trying to outdo Romney: rumor has is that the "clock" on Mike Huckabee's website is announcement of a creation of a conservative group by Huckabee. Of course, Mitt Romney has said (before Huckabee) that he was working on a similar idea.

Mitt News Round-Up

1. Mitt's successor in Massachussetts, Governor Deval Patrick, is getting low marks in his job approval ratings. This is relevant in two ways. One, it's the first contrast that Massachussettans can make with how things are now to with how things were under Mitt Romney. And Secondly, how did Deval Patrick deal with what Mitt left behind? A lot of people have been critisizing Romney for his universal health care (mandated, but not state-sponsored) plan, pointing to the fact it is failing right now...under PATRICK, who has made changes to the plan. Here...

http://www.necn.com/Boston/Politics/Survey-Lower-rating-for-Governor-Patrick/1207949321.html

2. “Facts are stubborn things.’’ McCain echoes of one Romney's most famous debate lines. This isn't really about Mitt, but it's interesting nontheless.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/mccain-to-obama-keep-your-word/

3. Billy House at Media News General Service makes a good observation: ever since Mitt Romney dropped his bid, the illegal-immigration issue hasn't been in the foreground....

http://www.mgwashington.com/index.php/news/article/immigration-debate-disappears-from-presidential-race/842/

Ok....

This is weird. I looked up the latest results for "mitt romney" in google news, and I saw this story from the Huffington Post. The names "Erica Jong" and "Mitt Romney" don't usually go together, so I clicked. It's by Matt Taibbi, responding to some backlash from Erica Jong, on comments he made about Hillary's "flabby arms."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-taibbi/erica-jong-thinks-i-want_b_96169.html

For those of you who don't know (and I don't blame you), Erica Jong is a novelist (I know of her because I've seen her books around in bookstores, and she wrote a forward to Signet Classics' paperback edition of Jane Eyre). She's one of those Left-wing crazy feminists. Surprise that she guest-writes for the Puffington Post? No. What's weird about this story is the way Taibbi deals with Jong, someone who is ideologically on his side. The rhetoric is....well, strange. Why the rhetoric about "do[ing] my mother" and "Oedipal obsession"?

What is it about lefties that their dialogue--even amongst themselves--is so outre and mean?

So after defending himself from Jong's attacks, he shows his street cred by listing the descriptions he's given to recent male politicians (you know, to counterbalance Jong's view that he only attacks women politicians). That's where Mitt's name shows up.

Taibbi is saying, "See, Erica? I've said vicious, malicious, and pernicious things about men too! It's not just Hillary that I hate! (I also hate the men who run her campaign!"

Read the whole thing. It's pretty interesting.

About that Condi idea...

My thoughts on the McCain/Condi idea: not good. Republicans want Condi for a lot of reasons. She's an african-american woman in a high cabinet position, obviously very intelligent...and would bring a kind of star appeal to the ticket. She's exciting AND smart AND experienced.

However, the downsides pile on up, one after the other. She's pro-abortion. That's not what McCain needs. She has an unexplainable sympathy with the Palestinians. Not what McCain needs. She was one of the Iraq War architects. While I am for the war, McCain has gotten far by being an independent critic of how the war was conducted. He needs to keep his distance from the Bush administration.

More Mitt News

1. Forbes.com has a piece on why a McCain-Romney ticket is the best way to go.

http://blogs.forbes.com/trailwatch/2008/04/mccain-romney-i.html

2. At CBS NEWS (oh, I'm sorry, CNN), a summary of Mitt's latest activities.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/04/11/politics/horserace/entry4009343.shtml

Who can carry MN: Tim or miT?

Nachama Soloveichik over at the Club For Growth's VP Watch Blog wonders if McCain choosing Tim Pawlenty (current governor ) will cary Minnesota in the general election. Go here...

http://www.clubforgrowth.org/vp_watch/

What does this have to do with Mitt Romney? Well, not much, until you consider the fact that he won the GOP Minnesota primary by a LOT over McCain, despite the fact that Gov Pawlenty was a McCain supporter from the start. So I think the real question is not whether or not Pawlenty will carry Minnesota (probably not), but whether or not Romney can.

Tom Tancredo endorses McCain. Sorta.

The Story Can Be Found Here...

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/apr/05/tancredo-reluctantly-offers-hand-to-former-foe/

The funny thing about Tancredo is his surprising willingness to go with the party. The media had portrayed him as some kind of hard-right lunatic, and you got the feeling he'd be one of those who was in it for his ego (well, all politicians are egotistical, you but you know what I mean). In any case, it came as a surprise to me when Tancredo left the race and endorsed Mitt Romney. A hard-liner like on illegal-immigrating like Tancredo, I thought he would have endorsed Thompson or fellow congressman Duncan Hunter. Conversely, everything I didn't expect of Tancredo, I expected out of Hunter. I was so sure he would endorse Romney when he left the race. He really surprised me when he endorsed Huckabee instead. I guess he thought Mitt was too friendly with Chinese business. Ah well.

Yeesh!

1. Via The Club For Growth's Veep Blog, I found Wonkette's blog about Karl Rove supporting Mitt Romney for VP. (Very snooty). Here...

http://wonkette.com/378727/rove-backs-romneys-push-for-vp

2. Another bit on Rove's choice, from New York Magazine. (With snotty headlines et al...). Here...

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/04/heilemann_rove_and_poppy_bush.html

3. RealClearPolitics has an article about the continuing Mitt vs. Mike (Huckabee) war. Very Interesting. Here...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/politics_nation/2008/04/a_tale_of_two_veeps.html

The Bloggers Pick

RightWingsNews.com (headed by the great John Hawkins) had a poll for bloggers. The subject? Their favorite VP picks. I found the link at the Club For Growth's VP Watch blog: (http://www.clubforgrowth.org/vp_watch/).

So who were the top two picks? Mitt Romney and Michael Steele. My own two favorite candidates.

See the whole list here...

http://www.rightwingnews.com/mt331/2008/04/rightofcenter_bloggers_select_5.php

The Boston Globe's Headline

1. You've probably already read this AP story, but here it is again presented by the Boston Globe. Why am I posting it again? Well, the BG's headline! They misspell Mitt's name. "RomENY Still On Political Hunt." The question is whether they did it on purpose, or if it's a mistake. Methinks it was the former. Here...

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/11/out_of_the_campaign_trail_limelight_romeny_still_on_the_political_hunt/

A Slew of Romney News

1. A slightly weird story from CNNMoney. The Marriott Hotel line was critisized by conservative family groups, namely the AFA...for offering to show porn films in the hotels. Where does Mitt come in? Well he was on the board of Marriott for many years, and he and the Marriott family were friendly, besides sharing their Mormon faith.

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/bb63b3508a1da6bf003badeca16e8277.htm

2. From OneNewsNow.com, a story about the "NoMittForVP" group being criticisized by Gary Bauer. Here...

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=75373

3. The WSJ blog has a piece concerning McCain, Romney, and Howard Dean...wherein Howlin' Howie says that Romney was the candidate he feared the most. Here...

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/04/10/dncs-dean-romney-would-be-more-feared-than-mccain/?mod=WSJBlog

4. Blogger Ashish at 411mania.com blogs about some of the reasons Howard Dean would have feared Romney more. Here...

http://www.411mania.com/politics/columns/72938/Dean:-Romney-Would-Be-More-Feared-Than-McCain.htm

5. And Finally, Michael Barone's brilliant (naturally, from a brilliant guy) piece in US World and News Report. It's about how lucky McCain was in the primary against Romney. Read the whole thing. Here...

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/barone/2008/4/7/john-mccain-was-one-lucky-guy-in-primary-race-with-romney.html

Fridat Morning Round-Up

It's early-morning here where I am, and I sleepily link these two stories...

1. From Reuters, an article about McCain's problems in choosing a VP. Most importantly they mention the "NoMittForVP" Huckabee-proxy petition that has been making news. Incidentally, Heritage Foundation founder Paul Weyrich (former Romney supporter) says that when he signed the petition, he was "misled".

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1048405220080411?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=10112

2. From Lancaster Pennsylvania, Mitt Romney was stumping for Senator McCain yesterday. Here...

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/219643

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Round 2

Via the Club for Growth's "VP WATCH" blog:
(http://www.clubforgrowth.org/vp_watch/),

and Politico:
(http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0408/Remainders_Losing_the_kids.html)...

MSNBC's Chuck Todd writes about 'McCain's Path to Victory'. Here...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24016480/page/2/

"So how can he beat Obama?

He will have to do well in the Rust Belt and dominate the economic issue in a way he's never done before. McCain could fix some of his problems connecting on the economy by his choice of a running mate, and there may not be a better "conventional" pick than Mitt Romney.

The former Massachusetts governor could help the ticket immediately in the two blue states of Michigan and New Hampshire. And he could potentially offset Obama's strength in the Rocky Mountain west with a surge of Mormons coming out in Nevada and Colorado in particular."~From Chuck Todd's piece (read the whole thing).

Mitt Romney News Round-Up

It's been a pretty good day for Mitt.

First, you can vote on whether or not you think Romney as McCain's VP is a good idea. Here...
http://newsbusters.org/polls/mitt-romney-veep-nominee-20434

Secondly, an article from the AP (at RealClearPolitics), entitled "Romney Still On The Political Hunt". Here...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/politics/2008/Apr/10/romney_still_in_the_political_hunt.html


Thirdly, My fellow Americans, Mitt takes over Fred Thompson's gig: as Paul Harvey's fill-in. Here...
http://www.paulharvey.com/

BY THE WAY, I've heard both men fill-in, and I have to say, Mitt is a lot better. I was a Fred Thompson fan from the start (even though I supported Mitt), and I'd heard him fill-in before the campaigning even started. He has a good deep voice. But Romney has some of that characteristic intonation that is needed for Paul Harvey's segment. It sounded just fine in Fred's hands, but Mitt really brought it off.

What this blogs is for...

I am a young conservative from Tennessee. I am a college student majoring in English and Journalism. I became interested in politics during the 2004 elections. I supported Mitt Romney during the primaries this time around, and support him now for a vice presidential pick for John McCain.

In this blog I'll play Romney news round-up, as well as news in general about the vice presidential choices.

If you have any Mitt Romney news, please send it to me at vincentd_indy@hotmail.com