Dick Morris argues against Romney for VP in this short piece. What Morris fails to recognize is the extent to which Romney energized many people. Romney’s performance was not as lackluster as Morris suggests. Prior to Super Tuesday, Romney led in popular votes. Romney’s problem came with fighting a multi-front assault from Huckabee in Iowa and John McCain in New Hampshire. It was difficult for Romney to beat both Huckabee and McCain, as it was for Huckabee to beat both Romney and McCain. Morris’ criticisms are as true of Huckabee as they are for Romney. In fact, one could easily switch their names in the piece. Huckabee only won places where evangelicals had a strong showing. The rest of the party wasn’t hungry for his fiscal liberalism and nanny state tendencies, even if he did tote a gun and hate gays.
Do I think there are reasons for McCain not to pick Romney as a VP? Sure. Morris’ suggestion that a pick from the center of the political spectrum would help McCain is not out of the realm of possibility (although many people continue to believe that what is needed is more energy from the right). Nevertheless, there are many people out there, like myself, who want to see Romney win. Romney as VP candidate would energize many people who have been sitting on the sidelines since his withdrawal.
I swear I’m not a shill for the Sunlight Foundation. I just keep bumping into their stuff online. And, so far, I like what I see.
The House Franking Committee (Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards) wants to take away your representative’s right to use the Internet to communicate with you.
See the interview video.
See the extensive “Red Book” mailing manual (72 pages…great for insomniacs).
While I agree with the principle of not allowing spend-o-crats access to taxpayer funds to spam us with unsolicited screeds about what they will do/have done if/after elected, what I object to is a rule that would essentially put a gag order on a politician using his/her cell phone to use Twitter. Half the people talking about implementing this rule don’t have a clue about the Web as it stands…how can we trust them to regulate it?
Jon Henke at The Next Right has some thoughts on that as well. Yes, Jon, for members of Congress, every year is like it’s 1999 (or earlier).
My favorite quote from the video should be carved into the steps of the House.
“Listen, Mike (Capuano), you have about as much chance of regulating the Internet as King Canute did at stopping the tide.”
Capuano was quoted in the Washington Post earlier this year as saying:
“I make no bones about it. I don’t know anything about this stuff,” Capuano said with a shrug. “To me, the Web is a necessary evil,” he admitted, “like cellphones.”
This gives me a whole new perspective on why my emails to my representatives go unanswered, or when they are, amount to a brush-off form letter containing no real information.
Go ahead. Tell ‘em how you really feel.
Looking for a great source for quoting McCain, Obama, and other political figures to set the record straight? Look no further than the Library Of Unified Information Sources (LOUIS), a project of the Sunlight Foundation. This database gathers in one place all text of the following “documents”:
Although it’s not yet finished, it does contain a surprising amount of info for a beta. I was disappointed, however, that a search for “UFO” didn’t turn up the answers I had hoped for. 
Bulldog Reporter announces that Fox News is pulling head of CNN again after the latter had a brief respite from a six year slump in the popularity of its news content. MSNBC continues at a sad and distant third.
Now, I don’t know that Fox news coverage, integrity, blah, blah, blah is all that much better in quality that CNN’s. But it certainly is different in terms of its bias. All news is biased because all news is reported by humans and all humans are biased.
Furthermore, we tend to associate with those who most share our interests and worldviews, so it follows that a network that is built of reporters who associate on conservative worldviews is going to be conservative. Likewise for a liberal network.
And that’s okay. That’s what the First Amendment was meant to protect. On the dark side of things, with Obama a serious contender for the presidency and a Democrat-controlled congress, the Fairness Doctrine looms on the horizon. For a peek at how scary the Left is becoming in their fanatical thinking about reinstating this outdated and poorly conceived idea, see here.
It appears Obama has bought in to all the hype about himself. Hopefully Americans will recognize the tall poppy for who he is.
FOXNews.com has the story here:
Obama’s New Pastor Issue
Priest apologizes for mocking Clinton
Rev. Michael Pfleger says he regrets fiery sermon at Obama’s church; Dem frontrunner calls sermon ‘disappointing’
Below is the YouTube of Pfleger’s rant at Obama’s church this past Sunday:
Apparently, Romney is buying a home in La Jolla. Welcome to the neighborhood Governor!
The Journal has a piece up about Mitt today and excerpts of quotes from an interview with him.
I liked this part because I love the way he describes his decision making process…
On why he left the race on Feb. 7:
“You sit down with your team and you look at what the numbers are, you look at the upcoming primaries, what the prospects are, you talk about, ‘Can we go to the convention? Would Mike Huckabee and myself and others have enough delegates that we can keep Sen. McCain from getting the nomination and end up going to the convention?’ I mean you go through all the scenarios and one by one you say, ‘Well no that one doesn’t work, that’s not realistic’ and ‘Oh, that one doesn’t work, that’s not realistic, we’re not going to do well in that state’ … You go through that kind of process and that’s what led to our conclusion that it was very unlikely that I would be able to win the nomination given the success through Super Tuesday. Was it possible? Yes. Was it very likely? No.”
There was an interesting piece at the Hufington Post about Romney as VP. Mostly, it argues that the strengths we recognized Romney had as a candidate, would be an asset to McCain in the general.
I haven’t posted much on the Romney VP front. I personally don’t think that this election cycle is going to be particularly favorable for the GOP and I have reservations about Romney being the VP candidate in that mix. I do think McCain can beat Obama, however, I think the best chance of doing that is being as centrist as possible while pounding Obama on experience and national security. I am not sure how Romney helps that overall approach. But hey, I live in state with a Governor who claims to care about democracy but supports Chief Justice George’s shotgun blast through the fabric of society in the CA gay marriage decision. So, I am pretty pessimistic about conservative Republican causes at the moment.
Romney took a moment in his speech to the NRA recently to comment on the California Supreme Court’s decision to go crazy and make up a new right despite California’s clear democratic statements on the matter.
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