We’re going to reserve comments about the veep pick until tomorrow. I need to sleep off the bitter speech I just witnessed.
Sleep well and dream of the biggest head fake in history.
A new online conservative magazine, Culture11, is reporting that Romney is NOT the guy. I’m hearing similar things but we will see. I don’t think they’ll report it tonight.
Note: I’ll be doing a lot of writing for Culture11 in the near future stay tuned. Here’s a taste.
So says Bloomberg.
Also, here’s an interesting post by a PA blogger noting that Romney will be in PA with McCain and Ridge. Pawlenty indcated today however that he will be at the MN state fair? Is our source in the PA GOP correct?
ALSO: CBS reports that GOP delegates want Romney as Veep!
Could Cindy McCain be the determining factor in the VP pick for her husband John McCain?
Through two sources we can report the following:
- Cindy McCain is apparently smitten with Ann Romney. They’ve hit off a strong friendship over the past few months.
- Cindy has expressed this fondness to John
- John McCain has indicated that he will include Cindy in the final decision of his VP pick
- As early as this morning McCain denied that he had picked anyone
- Cindy was on her way back from Georgia to be with John today
Drudge is reporting that the name might be leaking tonight… so we’ve moved the countdown clock to “1″.
Here’s what I’ve heard today. I’ve heard that Pawlenty is the man and that Mitt is out. I’ve heard that Mitt is the man and that Pawenty is out.
Roll Call reports that Romney’s sister’s house in Michigan is being swept by Secret Service.
S.E. Cupp has a great piece on why Romney is the man.
This Fox News blogger like’s Romney’s chances.
My opinion: I put the odds at 50%. Romney makes a lot of sense on paper but McCain is just an unknown quantity.
Here are some direct quotes from people who were close to the Romney campaign:
“Its possible. Its very, very possible”
“I put his chances at 55%… that’s up from 35% two months ago”
“The situation is very tight. I haven’t heard anything new this week”
Then there’s this exchange on MSNBC:
Dear Friends of MyManMitt,
When Mitt Romney took over the reins of the financially failing Salt Lake City Olympics he was invited to meet the entire Olympic committee. The meeting was scheduled for the only five star hotel in Utah with a lunch layout that would make Caesar jealous. Mitt canceled the venue and moved it to the Olympic offices they were already paying for. He ordered pizza and charged a dollar per slice. In the end, the Olympics made a $100 million profit.
Given the chance, I have no doubt that Mitt Romney would foster this same frugal flare and apply it to the biggest behemoth, the United States Government. The weight of regulation, taxation, and energy policy folly would come into stark relief with Romney’s insight and influence.
Come Friday will Mitt Romney get the nod from John McCain and go on to become the next Vice President of the United States?
We can’t say for sure. But we’ll be ready either way!
Stay tuned as we come into the home stretch.
The conservative blogosphere is abuzz with the #dontgo movement. But here’s an angle we haven’t pursued yet. If you look at this issue through a strictly “liberal” lens you get a huge club to bash over the collective heads of Obama, Hillary and Pelosi (arguably the new political trinity come November).
First the setup: Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have called for a tax on windfall profits for the oil industry. Hillary was the most brazen in her Febuary 2007 statement: “I
want to take those profits”.
Last week Exxon/Mobile reported another record quarter coming out billions of dollars in the black.
It’s a good thing too.
What’s that? A good thing that E/M is raking in beaucoup profits off of gas guzzling people across the world? Why yes, yes it is a good thing.
Looking at their
last quarterly reports E/M paid out $571,000,ooo in pension and retirement $$$. In 2008 they have paid out $1,147,000,000 into the same bucket of retired employees. Again, $1.1 billion in 6 months. Last year they paid out nearly $2 billion in pension liabilities. E/M is one of the largest employers in the world.
So, you do the math. If Obama, Pelosi, and Clinton “take the profits” of E/M who will pay these pensions to these former employees? Will hard working blue collar E/M people lose jobs? And will E/M raise their prices to meet the increased demands as profits tighten and pensions increase. Bottom line: YES.
Obama/Hillary/Pelosi + Opposing Drilling + Taking Profits = Disaster for a good swath of working Americans and people across the world.
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