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John McCain’s campaign announced that Mitt Romney will be campaigning for John in Lancaster, PA tomorrow.
Man I hope he gets a bunch of questions about the polygamist Mormons in Eldorado Texas!
If you think working class folks in PA are turned off by Pastor Wright…

The Go Go’s “Head Over Heels”:
But you know looks sometimes deceive
It seems my weaknesses
Just keep going strong

Hmmm…
Paging Bizzy.

On of the guys who bleats loudest about the “War on Christmas” (other than Bill-O, of course) is Bill Donahue of the Catholic League. He’s now criticizing Huck for injecting too much religion into politics, specifically about his latest television advert.
Donahue, the president of the Catholic League and an ardent defender of Christmas in […]

Rumors are that Michael Mukasey will be tapped by Bush to be the new Attorney General. I don’t know a lot about the man, other than the disappointing fact that he ruled that US citizen Jose Padilla could be held without charges as an “enemy combatant” by President Bush (even tho he did force […]

No comment needed except… 1) Wow! and 2) It will be interesting to see how this story will play out alongside the presidential primary election cycle. Surely there will be a hailstorm of commentary on that over the next few days.

DES MOINES, Iowa - A Polk County judge on Thursday struck down Iowa’s law banning gay marriage and ordered the county recorder to permit gay and lesbian couples to marry.

Less than two hours after word of the ruling was publicized, two Des Moines men applied at the Polk County recorder’s office for a marriage license, and for the first time the application was accepted. The process of granting a license to marry in Iowa takes three days.

From the Baltimore Sun:
At National Right to Life’s conference this year, Mitt Romney set out to convince anti-abortion leaders he was their candidate. At the podium, he rattled off his qualifications. To a layman’s ears, it sounded pretty standard for abortion politics. He wants to overturn Roe v. Wade. He supports teaching only abstinence to […]

Our friend Jerid’s video about “Obama Osama and Chelsea’s Moma” made this evening’s edition of Countdown with Keith Olbermann as story #4.

Update: Jerid has all the bases covered on this one. The excuse that he doesn’t know what signs everyone has is obliterated when we realize Mitt acknowledged a photo of the sign and gives Jerid his autograph on the back of it! Hey Mitt. Here’s your sign! Haven’t used this […]

Wow:
And then the county chairman for Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign, Chad Workman, made an unexpected digression: He took direct aim at Mitt Romney’s religion, according to four people at the meeting.
Workman questioned whether Mormons were Christians, discussed an article alleging that the Mormon Church helps fund Hamas, and likened the Mormons’ treatment of women […]

Choice. Mitt on pardoning Scotter Libby:
“It’s worth looking at that. I will study it very closely if I’m lucky enough to be president. And I’d keep that option open.”
Mitt on pardoning Iraq War Veteran Anthony Circosta who was convicted at 13 of assualt when he shot another kid in the arm with a BB […]

One of the big storylines out of the Republican debate was how everyone (and I do mean everyone) was trying to stake a claim to Reagan’s legacy.
Ten Republican presidential candidates wanting to replace
President Bush embraced a more popular president, conservative icon
Ronald Reagan, at every turn in their first debate of the 2008 race.
“Ronald Reagan was […]

TDS takes a look at the Republican frontrunners for President (McCain, Giuliani, and Romney):

Gotta love Rudy’s classic (er, creepy) cross-dressing bit.

Mitt Romney tends to avoid talking about his Mormon faith- but he knows he can always count on it to help raise some much-needed campaign cash.
And so Mitt Roney visited Boise, Idaho today- not because of the state’s small number of electoral votes (4)- but because of Idaho’s large (14%) Mormon population, Boise’s large (4.8 […]