Per Reuters, Mitt Romney has narrowed his vice presidential prospects to three candidates, and they are:
Ohio Senator Rob Portman: He is a freshman senator, but if he can put Ohio into play, then he is a powerhouse. Given his short resume, DC Patina (remember Romney is a Governor with no beltway profile or foreign policy cred) and a vital home state I'm calling this nonentity the most likely pick.
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty: I'm not sure why Romney is so high on this guy, other than the possibility that the famously dull Governor makes Mitt look like Mick Jagger by comparison. Humble Elias strongly doubts Pawlenty can put his state in contention, he is likely on the list simply to hedge bets on Portman in case photos surface or something.
Louisiana Governor Piyush "Bobby" Jindal: Lets face facts, this mook isn't goin' nowheres. He took his nickname from Bobby Brady offa da "Brady Bunch", but the truth is he has a luckless streak & hangdodg expression that much resembles Gilligan from "Gilligan's Island". Moreover he hales from Louisiana a state whose genial culture of corruption makes the Massachusetts Probation Department look like a bunch of sleepy Quakers. For that reason alone the country has yet to permit a Louisiana pol to "go national"...that and the fact that Romney already has that state in his back pocket mitigates strongly against Jindal. On the other hand maybe he polls well in Florida or there is some ethnic-electoral angle at work here.
Anyway my guess is, Portman....for now.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Please Ghod,
encourage Mitt Romney to keep talking about all his offshore bank accounts and still hidden tax returns, because he makes less and less sense about it all on an hourly basis.
At this rate by 5pm EST, 7-16-2012 he will be reduced to absolute babbling idiocy...and its all about money, his "hard earned money" you'd think he'd make more sense about a topic near and dear to his cold flinty dessicated heart.
Ah but that is Mitt's "magic secret" he can't play defense worth a damn, he is all right when he has a breeze at his back...but let the trades turn against him and he lands on a reef every time.
You know this whole controversy must be having an effect because all weekend long team Romney's spin meisters have been talking up the Vice Presidency, Condi Rice on Friday now Piyush "Bobby" Jindal that odorless, colorless, charmless, luckless Governor of Louisiana gets his turn.
And now we are told Romney may make his choice, this week, they whole tax return and offshore accounts thing must be polling very badly for Brand Romney if they are willing to blow their load this early in the Summer.
At this rate by 5pm EST, 7-16-2012 he will be reduced to absolute babbling idiocy...and its all about money, his "hard earned money" you'd think he'd make more sense about a topic near and dear to his cold flinty dessicated heart.
Ah but that is Mitt's "magic secret" he can't play defense worth a damn, he is all right when he has a breeze at his back...but let the trades turn against him and he lands on a reef every time.
You know this whole controversy must be having an effect because all weekend long team Romney's spin meisters have been talking up the Vice Presidency, Condi Rice on Friday now Piyush "Bobby" Jindal that odorless, colorless, charmless, luckless Governor of Louisiana gets his turn.
And now we are told Romney may make his choice, this week, they whole tax return and offshore accounts thing must be polling very badly for Brand Romney if they are willing to blow their load this early in the Summer.
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Program note to the Romney campaign
Do Not send Mitt out to do an 11th hour Friday Afternoon media blitz answering charges that he is a heartless plutocrat sans necktie.
Romney looks more uncomfortable, mendacious and stiff than when he goes all open collar & casual.
You just know that breakfast waits in the Romney Household until Mitt gets his windsor knot just right....
Oh and his defiant promise not to release any more of his tax returns (for fear of fueling additional "opposition research")....Is a virtual confession that indeed somewhere in his Bain Capital Record and all those offshore bank accounts Mitt Romney does indeed have something to hide.
Romney looks more uncomfortable, mendacious and stiff than when he goes all open collar & casual.
You just know that breakfast waits in the Romney Household until Mitt gets his windsor knot just right....
Oh and his defiant promise not to release any more of his tax returns (for fear of fueling additional "opposition research")....Is a virtual confession that indeed somewhere in his Bain Capital Record and all those offshore bank accounts Mitt Romney does indeed have something to hide.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Hmmm maybe Romney's appearance at the NAACP
didn't go well, from his campaign's perspective?
Why else would Matt Drudge (AKA "Romney's Bitch"), be shilling for Condi Rice to run as Mitt's VP?
If this is true, then it's a robust dial-back to "Classic Mitt", i.e. superceding a bunch of better known candidates in favor of a female running mate with an established record of reliability and or docility.
And it is that time of the election year for the annual week long vice presidential flirtation with the GOP's showcase Woman of Color.
"After all" thinks the Former Viceroy "She toadied for Bush, why shouldn't she Toady for Me?"
I suspect though, this is campaign stuntwork and palaver designed to take the hoodoo off a bad week for Romney, questions about when he left Bain Capital, questions about his many many overseas accounts and he got boo'd (for better or worse) by the NAACP.
And besides, there have been these persistent rumors that Rice's lifestyle might be anathema to the GOP Base.
But I hasten to add, these are rumors.
Maybe this is Willard's idea of a news-cycle disruptor...if so it's pretty lame.
Why else would Matt Drudge (AKA "Romney's Bitch"), be shilling for Condi Rice to run as Mitt's VP?
If this is true, then it's a robust dial-back to "Classic Mitt", i.e. superceding a bunch of better known candidates in favor of a female running mate with an established record of reliability and or docility.
And it is that time of the election year for the annual week long vice presidential flirtation with the GOP's showcase Woman of Color.
"After all" thinks the Former Viceroy "She toadied for Bush, why shouldn't she Toady for Me?"
I suspect though, this is campaign stuntwork and palaver designed to take the hoodoo off a bad week for Romney, questions about when he left Bain Capital, questions about his many many overseas accounts and he got boo'd (for better or worse) by the NAACP.
And besides, there have been these persistent rumors that Rice's lifestyle might be anathema to the GOP Base.
But I hasten to add, these are rumors.
Maybe this is Willard's idea of a news-cycle disruptor...if so it's pretty lame.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Just because...Mitt Romney
deserves to be boo'd, doesn't mean he should be boo'd.
One suspects he took his message of praetorianism, authoritarianism and sectarianism to the NAACP yesterday specifically to collect the vocal disapproval of his audience.
One of the few things Romney does well is make smarm and a sort of passive aggressive paternalism work for him.
So what he is doing here is trying to look like he "stood up to the NAACP" thus to make himself a martyr and a hero to the GOP base.
Its pretty low politics and a good example of what we can expect from The Romney-Fehrnstrom combination this fall.
Otherwise, this is Romney's idea of a "Sistah Soljah" moment....think about that for a moment.
One suspects he took his message of praetorianism, authoritarianism and sectarianism to the NAACP yesterday specifically to collect the vocal disapproval of his audience.
One of the few things Romney does well is make smarm and a sort of passive aggressive paternalism work for him.
So what he is doing here is trying to look like he "stood up to the NAACP" thus to make himself a martyr and a hero to the GOP base.
Its pretty low politics and a good example of what we can expect from The Romney-Fehrnstrom combination this fall.
Otherwise, this is Romney's idea of a "Sistah Soljah" moment....think about that for a moment.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Bobby Reardon for State Rep
(first of an occasional series on the race for the 24th Middlesex State Representative's seat).
Citizen Bobby Reardon, Belmont democrat, candidate for the State Rep's nomination, tall blonde and handsome (like a Superhero in his secret identity) came round' to the Arlington Town Democratic Committee meeting last night to introduce himself and field a few questions.
Predictably, he promised more money for education via "full reimbursement for Chapter Seventy" whatever the hell that means.
He also wants to do something about public transportation, keep the Belmont Uplands pristine and keep the Massachusetts Health Connector viable sans recourse to higher taxes.
Specifics he had but few, and a prolonged attempt by an Arlington School Committee member to pin Reardon down on funding for the Health Connector yielded but little tangible results.
The man is well informed, good looking, earnest but something of an uncompelling bore...Maybe it was the venue, who knows?
Other than that Reardon is a former aide to Will Brownsburger, a graduate of Bentley and enthusiastic swim coach and apparently unmarried.
I don't know if he is Senator Brownsburger's candidate for State Rep, but Reardon nonetheless made much of his experience on Beacon Hill and as a swim coarch as well.
Seems like a short resume... but I could be wrong.
Right now with Sheffler on the sidelines the primary seems to be evolving into a "Battle for the Soul of Belmont Mass" with Margaret Hegarty going mano a mano with Bobby Reardon with North Cambridge's own Dave Rogers trying to strike some sparks along the periphery.
Meanwhile Precincts, 2, 4, 8, 10 & 12 In Arlington are cordially invited to line up on the southern side of Route Two and see who carries the day in Belmont.
Now on Thursday July 26th from 7 thru 9 pm at the Arlington Senior Center (27 Maple Street) there is to a democratic candidate's forum, hopefully I'll get a better view of the emerging race therein, right now it is Belmont's seat to keep unless something really weird happens.
Citizen Bobby Reardon, Belmont democrat, candidate for the State Rep's nomination, tall blonde and handsome (like a Superhero in his secret identity) came round' to the Arlington Town Democratic Committee meeting last night to introduce himself and field a few questions.
Predictably, he promised more money for education via "full reimbursement for Chapter Seventy" whatever the hell that means.
He also wants to do something about public transportation, keep the Belmont Uplands pristine and keep the Massachusetts Health Connector viable sans recourse to higher taxes.
Specifics he had but few, and a prolonged attempt by an Arlington School Committee member to pin Reardon down on funding for the Health Connector yielded but little tangible results.
The man is well informed, good looking, earnest but something of an uncompelling bore...Maybe it was the venue, who knows?
Other than that Reardon is a former aide to Will Brownsburger, a graduate of Bentley and enthusiastic swim coach and apparently unmarried.
I don't know if he is Senator Brownsburger's candidate for State Rep, but Reardon nonetheless made much of his experience on Beacon Hill and as a swim coarch as well.
Seems like a short resume... but I could be wrong.
Right now with Sheffler on the sidelines the primary seems to be evolving into a "Battle for the Soul of Belmont Mass" with Margaret Hegarty going mano a mano with Bobby Reardon with North Cambridge's own Dave Rogers trying to strike some sparks along the periphery.
Meanwhile Precincts, 2, 4, 8, 10 & 12 In Arlington are cordially invited to line up on the southern side of Route Two and see who carries the day in Belmont.
Now on Thursday July 26th from 7 thru 9 pm at the Arlington Senior Center (27 Maple Street) there is to a democratic candidate's forum, hopefully I'll get a better view of the emerging race therein, right now it is Belmont's seat to keep unless something really weird happens.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Being Massachusetts longest serving
solo political blogger, ten years next January, nevertheless gives me no special access to the inside scoop or even the blindingly obvious.
Case in point, Citizen Sue Sheffler, Member of the Arlington School Committee and onetime democratic candidate for the 24th Middlesex State Representative's seat before signature issues forced her out of that race.
And indeed, Humble Elias is the last one to know despite living in the newly redrawn district and in one of the precincts with the highest democratic turnout in the universe.
Well so much for "the first draft of history" and all like dat.
Otherwise this leaves Arlington without a candidate in that race and puts the captioned precincts therein out of contention. No wonder I haven't seen any of the other candidates stumping in Arlington, they've got no install base on this side of Route Two and have no impetus to run up turn out. Thus all and sundry are taking us for granted already....baaa-ad karma mah frenz.
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