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And! It's raining this morning in Texas.

The election is a done deal. Obama is possibly a one-termer ~ or he could leave earlier, making both Obama and Biden "less than one term Presidents".

It does not matter who the Republicans run ~ on the other hand it does matter that the Republicans run as big a campaign as possible for as long as possible ~ and that means LOTS AND LOTS of debates.

Make the Republican Debate a weekly TV show taking place all across the country at all sorts of venues, with every broadcaster involved.

If they seriously think that Romney is “safely electable,” they’re out of their minds. I wouldn’t vote for him and I am sure there are many others in the GOP who wouldn’t; and as for “independents,” he is offering absolutely nothing that would attract them. He is as big-government and socialistic as Obama, just a different color, so they don’t even get the feel-good of voting for extra melanin.

If the GOP installs Romney as the candidate, the independents won’t even bother to get out of bed on election day. And neither will a lot of the GOP. I’ve worked for GOP candidates every time, even if I didn’t like them a lot, but I wouldn’t make a single phone call on behalf of Romney, and I don’t know anyone else who would, either. But then, maybe that’s why the Dems want him to be our candidate.

I think they’re hoping to throw away the presidential slot on Romney and hope that by getting a good VP candidate, they’ll attract voters. They tried that the last election, however, and it didn’t work. More people voted for McCain than would have voted for him without Palin, but the “VP vote” certainly would never be enough. Everybody knows you’re voting for the President and the VP is just going to sit back and keep his or her mouth shut for the next 4 years. Having a bad VP can hurt (because people are afraid of the possibilities), but having a good VP really doesn’t help that much.

“And The Most Irresponsible Journalist Award Goes to The Politico’s Jonathan Martin!
So tell me, how do you write a “news” story about an organization paying for a speaker when you don’t even know if the organization is paying for the speaker?
Ask “journalist” Jonathan Martin. He knows all about it.
You see, Jonny wrote a piss poor story the other day about how the Iowa Family Policy Center will be paying a large speaker fee if Sarah Palin comes to Iowa to keynote the IFPC’s fall funderaiser.
The only problem is that Jonny has no sources confirming that any exorbitant fee is being charged or paid.
Jonny also got some inside info from David Kochel, who was a top aide to former (and future) presidential candidate, Mitt Romney.
Hey Dave, didn’t I just read a story about how Mitt Romney tried to buy off the Iowa Christian Alliance?
I heard you helped facilitate that little scheme. And somehow you are shocked at the thought of a well-known political figure (who very likely isn’t running for president) getting paid a speaker’s fee for (gasp) a public speaking appearance? ..
and then we’ve got Tim Albrecht quoted. He was the Iowa spokesman for Romney’s 2008 caucus campaign.”
And it always seemed like, whenever the Romney people had rumors they wanted to start about other candidates,
Jonny was their go-to guy to get those rumors in writing in front of a national audience.

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

Suburbanites by their nature tend to be easily scared...but I think Perry’s success in the ‘burbs would come from simply making them scared of Obama, by telling the truth, and contrasting it with Obama’s attempts to making them scared of Perry by lying about him.