The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
Want to see an hilarious news release announcing this ad hoc group that thinks Family Research Council's Tony Perkins isn't telling truth? Well, we all know if the "pro-family" leader's lips are moving that lies are spilling out, but "Conservatives For Truth" thinks the head of the this weekend's Values Voter Summit, which invited and landed failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney to the shindig, is committing a grievous error. The "pro-homosexual" Mittster's bowing and scraping before the fundies clearly hasn't convinced true believers he's worthy of the seal of approval.
This weekend, leading Christian pro-family advocacy organization Family Research Council (FRC) will feature former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney as one of its featured speakers at its "Value Voters Summit." www.valuesvotersummit.org Despite Romney's unbiblical and far left-wing record as Massachusetts governor on the issues FRC claims to care the most about, FRC President Tony Perkins continues to refer to Romney as a "friend of the pro-family movement."
That's why we have authored the website www.tonyperkinstellthetruth.blogspot.com, because we believe someone claiming to stand for biblical teaching, as Mr. Perkins claims to, should have the integrity to tell the truth about the candidates he's providing a platform to reach Christian voters.
...CNS.com reported on August 25th, 2008, that before the Massachusetts legislature had even had a chance to pass a law legalizing homosexual marriages (which they never did), Governor Romney unilaterally and unconstitutionally authorized the illegal alterations to and issuance of marriage licenses to homosexual couples, and even went so far as to demand that justices of the peace who wouldn't perform homosexual "marriages" for moral reasons, resign. www.cnsnews.com/news/article/34561
We would like to ask Mr. Perkins if CNS.com is lying, and if it isn't, does that sound like the actions of a, "friend of the pro-family movement?"
Please tell the truth, Mr. Perkins.
Even after the GOP Clown Car tossed him out in 2008, Mitt hasn't realized that he will never be able to 1) overcome his flip-flopping, back-double-twist political gymnastics and 2) convince "Christians" that as a Mormon, he's "one of them."
The backstabbing continues, as Mitt Romney appeared on CNN's State of the Union and commented on Time Magazine's inclusion of Sarah Palin on its list of "The World's Most Influential People." Party chair Rush Limbaugh also made the list, btw.
As Jed said, "It's like watching Ken attack Barbie for being plastic." Watch it below the fold.
Race-car driver and money manager Hal Prewitt bought Mitt Romney's ski house at Deer Valley Resort for "a little less" than the asking price of $5.25 million, his agent said Tuesday. "It's beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous, very tastefully and artfully decorated," Prewitt, 54, of Miami Beach, said Tuesday from the 9,500-square-foot house. "He wanted to sell and I wanted to buy, so it wasn't difficult to come to an agreement."
Romney also has a tentative buyer for his suburban Boston house, his spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said Tuesday. The 6,400-square-foot Colonial on 2.5 acres in Belmont is expected to fetch about $3 million.
The Romneys plan to keep a $10 million summer home on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, N.H. and a $12 million beachfront compound in La Jolla, Calif.
The sale of the Utah and Boston homes has been described by political analysts as a way for Romney to prepare for another presidential race without having to explain why he owns excess real estate - the issue that brought ridicule on rival Republican candidate John McCain last fall.
The article also quotes the Romneys as saying they are "downsizing and simplifying." Good grief. Now our house here in NC is about 1,500 sq. feet and it's a bear to keep that amount of space clean and uncluttered between the two of us. I guess the Romneys obviously have hired help to do that sort of thing, you know, like the most of the Joe Six Packs whose vote he was asking for last time around.
It looks like the Thrilla from Wasilla isn't thrilling the far right set at the wingnut CPAC conference. As they do each year, they hold a poll to take the temperature of the conservative movement and its idea of prez candidates for 2012.
Mitt Romney topped it for the third straight time, while Bible Spice, who didn't attend the con, didn't earn the support of the crowd. Sam Stein at Huff Post:
For the Alaska Governor, the belle of the conservative movement in the '08 election, the results aren't the best of news. Her non-appearance at CPAC, however, may have contributed to the tied-for-third-place finish. Moderate Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, earned one percent of the vote and was ridiculed by moderator Tony Fabrizio for being Barack Obama's favorite Republican.
With roughly two years to go until formal campaigning begins on the Republican side of the aisle, the results of the CPAC poll are more a temperature of the conservative movement at this point in time than an indication of who will end up the presidential nominee. Nevertheless, Republicans don't take these polls lightly. The results can provide a boost for a potential candidate or hurt the morale of another.
Here are the official results:
Mitt Romney - 20 percent
Bobby Jindal - 14 percent
Ron Paul -13 percent
Sarah Palin - 13 percent
Newt Gingrich -10 percent
Mike Huckabee - 7 percent
Mark Sanford - 4 percent
Rudy Guiliani - 3 percent
Tim Pawlenty - 2 percent
Charlie Crist - 1 percent
Undecided - 9 percent
Love or hate California's Proposition 8, one fact-based thing we can take away from the campaign is that the First Presidency (the Prophet and his two counselors) of the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) told their church membership to "do all [they] can to support the proposed constitutional amendment." There is now precedence for the LDS' prophet to tell its members how to vote on very public, controversial issues.
So, if Mitt Romney were to become the Republican Nominee for President in 2012, could the political activism by the Mormon Church hierarchy become be an issue of higher order than the John F. Kennedy/Pope issue of 1960? I tend to think so.
The key role played by the LDS Church in passing California's gay marriage ban could have long-lasting consequences - good and bad - for the future of the nation's highest-profile Mormon politician: Mitt Romney.
The LDS effort could give Romney a crucial boost among evangelicals who wield great power in choosing the Republican presidential nominee. But it might leave the former Massachusetts governor an even tougher slog among a broader electorate.
"What the LDS Church just did in California and elsewhere, should help [Romney] because it sends a signal to evangelical Protestants that while we differ religiously, politically we are first cousins," says Charles Dunn, dean of the School of Government at Regent University, founded by evangelical leader Pat Robertson...
Further into the article though, Burr quotes University of Iowa communications professor Bruce Gronbeck, who pointed out that the LDS Church's involvement in Prop 8 Politics may...
...make some independents wary of voting for a Mormon candidate, he says, and stoke more fears of how much power the church has over its faithful members.
So if one is a conservative, evangelical Christian, are you more happy that a Mormon candidate's church is on your side of the issue on same-gender marriage, or are you more worried about how the LDS Prophet may tell an elected Mormon officeholder how to speak out and vote on other issues besides same-gender marriage?
That LDS Prophet brought the politics of the Mormon Church to the forefront this last election. Since many conservative Christian voters consider Mormonism to be a cult, I tend to believe that any Mormon presidential candidate will have a leg down due to worries about what the LDS Prophet may tell a Mormon candidate what to say and do -- the Prop 8 stand by the LDS First Presidency demonstrates it's possible.
And wow, conservatives are discussing 2012 really early, aren't they? President-elect Obama hasn't even taken office yet.
The dark tentacles of Karl Rove are deep into the McCain campaign, it's not just a little light consultation. He's trying to strong-arm the VP selection, first to ensure that the Arizona senator does not pick Holy Joe under any circumstances.
Republican strategist Karl Rove called Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) late last week and urged him to contact John McCain to withdraw his name from vice presidential consideration, according to three sources familiar with the conversation.
Lieberman dismissed the request, these sources agreed. Lieberman "laughed at the suggestion and certainly did not call [McCain] on it," said one source familiar with the details.
"Rove called Lieberman," recounted a second source. "Lieberman told him he would not make that call." Rove did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Who is the veep apple of Rove's eye? The Ken doll, Mitt "Multiple Choice" Romney. McCain is to announce his choice tomorrow, so if it's Romney, we know that it's confirmation of more of McBush.
Speaking of McCain - have you heard about his $2 million parking lot?
When Democrats gather in Denver next week to nominate Barack Obama for president, they'll be joined by such uninvited guests as Republicans Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney.
The two former presidential candidates will be among two dozen or so Republicans in the city hoping to get their party's message out during a week dominated by Democratic festivities.
Their slogan? "Not Ready '08: A Mile High and an Inch Deep," a play on the nickname for the high-altitude city in the western United States.
These two will pitch their RNC central circus tent within walking distance of the Denver Convention Center. I can't wait to trek over to it and capture these two former GOP Clown Car Occupants.
The Mitt & Rudy show will feature guest appearances by Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. The latter will do the GOP response to Hillary Clinton's Tuesday night speech.
And look at this little cute affair -- the GOP plans to launch www.notready08.com to attack Obama. Someone should make a readyforretirement.com site for McCain.
How not to successfully suck up for the veep position. With gas prices on the minds of most Americans, Mittster (or his handlers) didn't do any homework to tout McCain's wisdom and efforts on energy policy. Way to go!
WOLF BLITZER: Can you cite one legislative accomplishment that Senator McCain produced during those 26 years in Washington in order to achieve energy independence?
GOVERNOR ROMNEY: Well, I'm not a historian that goes through all of the pieces of legislation John McCain has worked on.
Come on, man. That's feeble. But that he readily admits that he's not a historian...or a mayor... or a legislator...or a scientist...or an engineer either. Read all about it after the jump.
Republican Presidential Nominee, Senator John McCain:
We call upon you to reject any consideration of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney as a Vice Presidential running mate.
We further urge you to only consider for Vice President an individual with a strong and consistent record of support for both the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death, and the amendment of the U.S. Constitution to establish marriage as only between one man and one woman.
It's up to 1500 signatures so far. Who's behind the anti-Mitt movement? Someone named William J. Murray, Chairman of Government Is Not God - PAC. Murray's turned off comments at the petition site because:
Our NO MITT petition site on the Internet gave those who signed the petition an opportunity to give a short personal message to Senator McCain as to why they did not want Mitt Romney as Vice President. Individuals used this opportunity to post hateful and bigoted anti-evangelical messages at the site that I cannot reprint here. At one point a volunteer had to work full time to cull out those messages that were too offensive to leave up. We blocked the server at BYU in Utah and the number of offensive messages declined. In the culling process some messages that were not offensive were removed as well, our volunteers did the best they could with the volume.
...There was an overall dishonesty by the Romney supporters who posted at the NoMittVP site. In order to leave a post they had signed a petition saying they did not want Mitt Romney as their VP choice. To be blunt, they lied in order to post pro-Romney or anti-evangelical messages.
I was surprised by the number of anti-evangelical messages and the tone of hatred for evangelicals in general. However, this has not changed my position or the position of this political action committee. We will still endorse and fund candidates who are Mormon who are consistent social conservatives. We will still not endorse nor fund Catholics or members of Protestant churches who support such social catastrophes such as abortion and homosexual marriage.
But are they k-i-s-s-i-n-g? Only the McCainBot 2008 knows for sure. Look as Mitt gives the droid-in-need-of oil money a loving gaze after a bruising primary hatefest, as the flip-flopping, former homo-friendly Massachusetts governor stumped for McCain in Utah. The MSM is buzzing about Mitt as a potential VP running mate. Bring it on, John.
Romney joined McCain at a fundraiser in Salt Lake City yesterday and is set to accompany him to another fundraiser in Denver this evening. It is familiar territory for Romney, whose family has roots in Utah and who lived there for several years. Romney raised $6.3 million in Utah, more than from his home state of Massachusetts and second only to his haul from California, during his bid for the GOP nomination.
McCain, by contrast, has raised only about $200,000 from the state. As a result, a vast population of Republican donors in the state is nowhere near to tapping out its allowed $4,600 maximum donation to McCain. The pair's spin through the Mountain West is notable given the palpable disdain that existed between them during the primary.
After the jump, you have to see what Senator Lindsey Graham said about McCain and Holy Joe.
See ya. Huck is fighting on...he will probably drop out soon to further cozy up to the Tool for the VP slot. The far right wing really has nowhere to go now. Dobson must have severe agita. AP:
Mitt Romney suspended his faltering presidential campaign on Thursday, effectively sealing the Republican presidential nomination for John McCain. "I must now stand aside, for our party and our country," Romney told conservatives.
"If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror," Romney told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
Romney's decision leaves McCain as the top man standing in the GOP race, with Mike Huckabee and Texas Rep. Ron Paul far behind in the delegate hunt. It was a remarkable turnaround for McCain, who some seven months ago was barely viable, out of cash and losing staff. The four-term Arizona senator, denied his party's nomination in 2000, was poised to succeed George W. Bush as the GOP standard-bearer.
McCain and Romney spoke by phone after Romney's speech, though no endorsement was requested nor offered, according to a Republican official with knowledge of the conversation.
Romney launched his campaign almost a year ago in his native Michigan. The former Massachusetts governor and venture capitalist invested more than $40 million of his own money into the race, counted on early wins in Iowa and New Hampshire that never materialized and won just seven states on Super Tuesday, mostly small caucus states.
...There were shouts of astonishment, with some moans and others yelling, "No, No."
By suspending his campaign, Romney holds onto his delegates, at least until the party convention this summer.
With a marriage amendment effort is going on in the Sunshine State and it's down to the short hairs for Mitt and McCain, it's good to know that pulling out the homo strawman is like a comfortable old shoe for Republicans.
This is what John McCain did to scare off potential flip-flop Mitt voters - a robocall capitalizing on the former Massachusetts governor's abandoned gay-friendly positions. A nice robocall that neatly avoids the Arizona senator's own opposition to a Federal Marriage Amendment and history of playing it both ways. Oops. (The Politico):
“I’m calling with an urgent Mitt Romeny [unintelligible]"
"We care deeply about traditional values and protecting families. And we need someone who will not waver in the White House: Ending abortion, preserving the sanctity of marriage, stopping the trash on the airwaves and attempts to ban God from every corner of society. These issues are core to our being.
"Mitt Romney thinks he can fool us. He supported abortion on demand, even allowed a law mandating taxpayer-funding for abortion. He says he changed his mind, but he still hasn’t changed the law. He told gay organizers in Massachusetts he would be a stronger advocate for special rights than even Ted Kennedy. Now, it’s something different.
"Unfortunately, on issue after issue Mitt Romney has treated social issues voters as fools, thinking we won’t catch on. Sorry, Mitt, we know you aren’t trustworthy on the most important issue and you aren’t a conservative.
"Paid for by John McCain 2008.
My question -- are the Log Cabinettes going to line up behind McCain or Romney if either is the nominee? That's a sorry choice.
In the tome Perry (who supports Rudy) has an amusing passage about Mitt Romney's role as administrator of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. There was a call for volunteers, and when the Scouts answered the call, for some reason, Mitt turned them away.
"In 2000 he put out a published call for volunteers ... The Great Salt Lake Council of the BSA, the largest in the nation, with some 80,000 Scouts and 35,000 adult leaders, answered Romney's call for volunteers."
"Some time that fall, however, the Scouts were advised that they were no longer welcome to participate. Chief Scout Executive for the Council, Marty Latimer said, 'We don't understand what's wrong. They just don't want us and won't talk to us.' He said that Romney had not returned calls from several Scout executives seeking an explanation. The Council's President R. Lawry Hunsaker expressed surprise that Romney had ignored Scout leaders for he had once been a Scout and a Scout leader himself. 'We can't get him to return our calls.' "
The reason Mitt may not have returned the calls is pretty obvious. When he was running to unseat Ted Kennedy in 1994, in a debate he said:
"I feel that all people should be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation."
With the shrewdness of a politician, Hinckley downplayed the more controversial aspects of LDS history. He welcomed the world to Utah for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, promising everyone they could get a drink here and accepted one of America's highest honors - the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He highlighted Mormon commonality with other Christians, forging alliances with other faith groups while scolding LDS Church members for being too clannish, self-righteous and unfriendly to their neighbors.
He built alliances with other Christian denominations to oppose same-sex marriages and defend religious liberties. In 1998, Hinckley announced a "Proclamation on the Family," which laid out the church's support for the sanctity of marriage, the significance of family and the importance of chastity.
That became the theological foundation for the church's opposition to any effort to promote same-sex marriage. In 2000, the LDS Church defended the Boy Scouts' right to exclude gays from leadership positions, and the church and its members in Alaska and Hawaii gave time and well over $1 million to thwart same-sex marriage initiatives; in 1999, members in California helped finance the push for a Protection of Marriage Act on that state's ballot.
"What's a church for if it isn't to fight for values, to take a stand and face up to these moral issues?" Hinckley said in a February 2000 interview with The Salt Lake Tribune.
And he did. Gordon B. Hinckley appeared on Larry King Live a while back and discussed many issues about LDS, including thoughts on gays and marriage. It's below the fold.
* Taxin' my time. It's nice down here in NC today, maybe about 50 degrees and sunny. What am I doing? Pulling all my stuff together to do my taxes. What fun. All I keep thinking about is the ridiculous "economic stimulus" package Dear Leader is pimping, which is no different than the last "rebate" he sent Americans. You know, the $300 advance on your next year's income tax refund? It's preposterous.
Yes, it will put money in the hands of those struggling, but what exactly, are they supposed to spend it on that will stimulate the U.S. economy? Almost all goods are made elsewhere. I guess it will be a boon to "made in the USA" companies, whatever few are left. Since this proposal would get checks in the hands of those making less than $75K by late spring.
I was listening to NPR on the way in to work the other day, and an economist was being interviewed who said that: 1) about a third of folks will save the money, 2) a third will spend it, and 3) the rest will put it toward their credit card balances. The government doesn't want folks to save it, though that would be a good idea to do so; as I said above, I'm not sure if "the spenders" will take the time and effort to research and "buy American." The people choosing to pay down their credit card debt may or may not help the economy. It's good to be debt-free, obviously, but some people will pay it down and simply run it up again. That's not smart personal finance, but that's what Bushco wants folks to do.
* Obama's rocking the Magic City. I just received a phone call from my mother-in-law in Alabama; Barack Obama is appearing in Birmingham and apparently it's standing room only in UAB's Bartow Arena (10,000 are there), and she noted how diverse the enthusiastic crowd was. All the local pols and community leaders are there, and the rally is being televised live on the local news channel.
The crowd mirrors the trend that has characterized Obama's campaign. Supporters are black, white, witnesses to the civil rights movement, and college students who can barely remember a White House without a Clinton or Bush.
To compare, Huckabee was in Birmingham as well, appearing at the Baptist college Samford University, in its Brock Hall auditorium to an "overflow crowd." The numbers weren't quite as impressive -- the standing-room crowd was in a 280-seat auditorium, with about 1,600 people filling an overflow room. Noted the report:
The crowd was virtually all white and included many Samford students. Five freshmen friends, all Republicans anxious to vote for president the first time, said they were impressed with the way Huckabee related his Christianity to his proposals for government, including his stance against abortion.
* Who is whispering in Mitt's ear? Look at this clip from the Florida GOP debate. Romney is asked a question and before he can answer, someone can be heard in the audio. Was Mitt wired for sound like Dear Leader appeared to be in his 2004 debates? This gives new meaning to "empty suit":
No one has come forward to identify themselves as the careless whisper in Willard's ear.
The question of James Dobson's clout in the 2008 election is one of the hot topics, as he has been quite vocal about who he didn't like in the GOP Clown Car. He crossed McCain, Giuliani, and Thompson off early, and it appears that though Mike Huckabee is seemingly the most compatible on social issues, Focus on the Family Action says it won't endorse anyone prior to the Florida primary next week.
That said, you can watch a series of videos with Focus's Senior VP, Tom Minnery and Tony Perkins of the Family Research council discussing all of the Dem and GOP candidates. Huck comes up too short on fiscal issues and the defense issues, despite hitting all the fundie marks.
The video on Mike Huckabee, who is the overwhelming favorite among the nation's evangelical voters, is surprisingly harsh. After praising Huckabee's social views, both Perkins and Tom Minnery, a policy expert at Focus on the Family, hammer the former Arkansas governor for his foreign policy views. Minnery suggests that Huckabee does not understand the cause for which American troops are dying in Iraq. Then Perkins suggests that Huckabee lacks the fiscal and national security credentials needed for a conservative presidential candidate. "The conservatives have been successful in electing candidates, and presidents in particular, when they have had a candidate that can address not only the social issues, [but] the fiscal issues and the defense issues," says Perkins. "[Huckabee] has got to reach out to the fiscal conservatives and the security conservatives." Ouch.
So what about Romney? He comes up roses. "He has staked out positions on all three of the areas that we have discussed," says Perkins. "I think he continues to be solidly conservative." Then Minnery defends Romney from criticism that he is too polished and smooth. "Mitt Romney has acknowledged that Mormonism is not a Christian faith," Minnery adds. "But on the social issues we are so similar."
Time Magazine openly questions the influence of Focus on the Anus in 2008, as Dobson wants to make sure that his organization isn't seeing aligning with a loser. That may explain his dance with Moneybags Mitt, even though he's a flip-flopping cipher. The real problem for Daddy D. is that his organization isn't exactly keeping its coffers overflowing as it did during the heyday of the religious right.
More below the fold, including the prospect of Huckabee as VP.
There's an amusing piece about Multiple Choice Mitt in the NYT that dishes some behind-the-scenes dirt about the other Clown Car occupants' ill will toward the empty-suit former Massachusetts governor. The common sentiment in the GOP crowd that Mitt: 1) has too much money to throw around while others, like McCain and Huck have to scramble to raise cash; 2) he can pay for a lot of distasteful attack ads; and 3) he's a general sleazeball without convictions.
Some of the fun tidbits:
* "Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it."
-- John McCain in New Hampshire when reporters asked him about Mr. Romney. * "What I have to do is make sure that my anger with a guy like Romney, whose teeth I want to knock out, doesn't get in the way of my thought process."
-- Mike Huckabee campaign chairman, Ed Rollins
In stark contrast to Mr. Romney, Mr. McCain seems to be universally liked and respected by the other Republican contenders, even if they disagree with him.
Mr. Schnur used a schoolyard analogy to compare Mr. Romney, the ever-proper Harvard Law School and Business School graduate, to Mr. McCain, the gregarious rebel who racked up demerits and friends at the Naval Academy.
"John McCain and his friends used to beat up Mitt Romney at recess," Mr. Schnur said.
...Mr. McCain also seems to have fallen into a mutual nonaggression pact with Mr. Huckabee, who has been almost fawning in his compliments for Mr. McCain and dripping with contempt when discussing Mr. Romney.
Poor Mitt. This is so embarrassing that I almost didn't want to post the video. But how could I deny you the opportunity to see Mitt Romney's new pandering style, captured as he posed with a group of young black people in Jacksonville, Florida -- trying to show his street cred by tossing off a lame line from an eight-year-old song, "Who Let the Dogs Out"? (NYT):
Mr. Romney, the Republican candidate from Massachusetts by way of Michigan and Utah who enjoys a milkshake at the end of a long day, stopped by a staging area for a Martin Luther King Birthday parade here. In his dress shirt and tie, and with his unwavering smile, he walked over and posed for photographs with a group of black youngsters. Putting his arm around a teenage girl, he waved to the cameras and offered, "Who let the dogs out?" He added a tepid "woof woof."
Somewhere, the Baha Men, the Bahamian group whose 2000 song the candidate was referencing, must have been shuddering. Kevin Madden, one of Mr. Romney's campaign boyz on the bus, said the candidate had been joking around and had responded to someone who asked, "Who let you out?"
Of course Mitt couldn't resist capitalizing on his success "getting down" with the peeps -- he liked a gold necklace that a girl who was wearing and declared "Oh, you've got some bling-bling here."
Moving on to the Dem side of the same coin, Bill Clinton manages to rate an embarrassment level as high as Romney's as he falls asleep during a sermon by Martin Luther King, III at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem on Sunday. The New York Post headline: "Bill Has a Dream."
I suppose that he more he sleeps, the less damage he can do to his wife's campaign.
After pandering beyond all believe and dumping a ton of money in his birth state, flip-flopping Mitt finally pulled off a major win (if you don't count the Wyoming beauty contest). NYT:
Candidate
Vote
%
Delegates
Mitt Romney
203,169
38.9%
To be determined
John McCain
155,632
29.8
Mike Huckabee
84,172
16.1
Ron Paul
32,985
6.3
Fred D. Thompson
19,265
3.7
Rudolph W. Giuliani
14,503
2.8
Uncommitted
10,308
2.0
Duncan Hunter
1,721
0.3
Tom Tancredo
280
0.1
Others
239
0.0
56% reporting | Updated 10:11 PM ET
Romney actually beat out Huckabee on the evangelical vote, 34%-29%, so maybe the "amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards" got around. And take a look at the choice of the Freeper set, Fred Thompson, and Rudy. Both trail Ron Paul, haha!
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I'm putting together my full interview from Saturday (including video) with U.S. Senate candidate Jim Neal. It will go up tomorrow, so I haven't been watching the Dem debate in Nevada this evening, but you catch Katharine Q. Seelye's live blog of it here.
...CNS.com reported on August 25th, 2008, that before the Massachusetts legislature had even had a chance to pass a law legalizing homosexual marriages (which they never did), Governor Romney unilaterally and unconstitutionally authorized the illegal alterations to and issuance of marriage licenses to homosexual couples, and even went so far as to demand that justices of the peace who wouldn't perform homosexual "marriages" for moral reasons, resign. 
How 
Romney joined McCain at a fundraiser in Salt Lake City yesterday and is set to accompany him to another fundraiser in Denver this evening. It is familiar territory for Romney, whose family has roots in Utah and who lived there for several years. Romney raised $6.3 million in Utah, more than from his home state of Massachusetts and second only to his haul from California, during his bid for the GOP nomination.
See ya. Huck is fighting on...he will probably drop out soon to further cozy up to the Tool for the VP slot. The far right wing really has nowhere to go now. Dobson must have severe agita. 
"In 2000 he put out a published call for volunteers ... The Great Salt Lake Council of the BSA, the largest in the nation, with some 80,000 Scouts and 35,000 adult leaders, answered Romney's call for volunteers."
There's an amusing piece about Multiple Choice Mitt in the 
