A month or so of dedicated toadying yields Mitt Romney exactly nothing by way of getting on McCain's Vice Presidential short list.
This particular passage from off the above link to the Boston GLobe, is particularly instructive:
But a group of social conservatives threatened to pull its support from McCain if he picks the former Massachusetts governor, citing Romney's former positions favoring abortion rights and gay rights.
The group has bought a full-page ad in tomorrow's local newspaper in Prescott, Ariz., where McCain will be campaigning that day. "For us, the bottom line is this," the ad states. "The unvarnished facts of Mitt Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts make him utterly unacceptable as a vice presidential running mate. . . . If governor Romney is on your ticket, many social conservative voters will consider their values repudiated by the Republican Party."
The group, calling itself the Government is Not God PAC, includes Paul Weyrich, Moral Majority founder, who endorsed Romney during the primaries.
I seem to recall not two weeks ago, Joan Vennochi was insisting in that humorless way of hers that Mitt Romney was a strong vice presidential possibility because he so appealing to the social conservative wing of the GOP?
All I can say is, HA!!!!
This looks like the end of the road for the former viceroy of Massachusetts, too phony too cold and too selfish for even the debauched reaches of the Republican Party.
Well with any luck IF McCain gets in, he can nominate Romney as Secretary of Health and Human Services, which is exactly as high as Mitt's Dad George Romney went in national politics.
Otherwise President Obama can reach out in a bid for bipartisanship and send Romney to our embassy in ohhh say I dunno....Pakistan.
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