Saw Mittens speak on CSPAN this weekend

Bleck.

I must say, he seems to be a good crowd shmoozer. But I ended up turning off his speech within a few minutes, because he said that he and other Repubs throughout the country were taking their cues from the Prez re: education and fiscal responsibility and such.

It was on the words fiscal responsibility that I choked and had to reach for the remote. What freakin' fiscal responsibility. Fiscal responsibility my ass!

My condolences to the Massholes.

So what are the chances of ousting the bum?

he is focusing on trying to win the Republican nomination for President.

I think that would screw him.

and in his case he really is. that's why he vetoed a stem cell research bill but the mass legislature had enough numbers to overturn it.

but the primary opponents can use his past against him and it's one reason i don't think he will win the nomination.

I bet you they will too.

He ran as a moderate, but he's recently been uncovered as the right-wing ideologue he really is. He's anti-choice, anti-gay-rights, anti-stem-cell research. Sounds more and more like a slightly more attractive * clone.

Dear TayTay,

Republican Mitt Romney has changed his position on abortion and other issues to build credibility with the extremist powerbrokers that control the GOP.

Why? He wants to run for President in 2008. But along the way, he has a decision in 2006 -- whether to run for governor again, or take on Senator Kennedy.

As Romney plots his rise, conservative commentators say that if he can "defeat the brother of JFK," he will have done more to "add momentum to a run for the presidency than anything he could accomplish as governor." That's the empty ambition of Republicans like Romney. A race against Kennedy would be, in the words of the Wall Street Journal, to "gain political capital" for a White House run.

Defeating Senator Kennedy is exactly the kind of credential that the fringe right wants in a candidate. Their sights are increasingly focused on Senator Kennedy -- with no credible challenger emerging for Senator Clinton in New York, the right-wing fantasizes about taking down a national icon.