Shocked.

Romney isn’t that popular in Massachusetts (the governor’s seat flipped from Republican right after his term). And even worse, does anyone think Dems – in Massachusetts and in the rest of the country – won’t be super energized to defend Ted Kennedy’s seat from the likes of Mitt Romney?

And then Mitt would fail. Again.

Three years after the inception of Massachusetts’ landmark health reform legislation, which required every citizen to buy insurance, NewsCenter 5’s Ed Harding wondered what former Gov. Mitt Romney, a key political architect of the plan, thought of its progress.
Call it protecting his legacy, well-earned pride, or seeing the glass as half-full, but Romney says Massachusetts deserves an ‘A.’

“It’s working like we had hoped it would work,” the one-time republic presidential candidate said. “We got nearly everybody in Massachusetts health insurance, which really, something people didn’t think was possible.”

One day all these Mitt Romneys are going to debate each other on the issues (he’s had every position), and its going to be awesome.

Or, it is possible that Mitt Romney is an untrustworthy panderer of the worst sort.

And they call union folks thugs…

Richard Pimentel, a former executive of Huron Consulting Group Inc., contends he lost his job as a financial-management consultant partly in retaliation for refusing the chief executive’s repeated calls to contribute to the former Massachusetts governor’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

The company denies that charge. But officials confirm the authenticity of emails showing that the CEO of the Chicago-based corporate consulting firm, Gary E. Holdren, repeatedly linked his requests for donations to Huron’s business prospects. The emails were provided to The Wall Street Journal by Mr. Pimentel.

‘This is not about me trying to force a political candidate on you and trying to see how you vote,’ Mr. Holdren wrote in one email, dated Jan. 27, 2008, to Huron managing directors, the firm’s senior executives. ‘This is just business and the way business works.’

Is McCain looking for a Sugar Daddy to complement the mommy he already has on board?

I’m always amused by how the “independent” conservative opinionsphere – blogs, cable tv, and talk radio – tends to simultaneously come up with the same idea, usually bad. Today’s idea is for Mitt Romney to run as McCain’s running mate. Put aside the fact that I and many others think Romney is a supremely disingenous phony of the highest order, what would he bring to the McCain ticket? He has little to no electoral sway outside of Utah (he may help a little in Michigan and will be useless in Massachusetts) and his Mormon religion will likely do more to suppress the religious right vote for McCain than his candidacy already does. If anything, Romney’s relatively youthful appearance will reinforce on the populace just how old McCain is, especially compared to Sen. Obama.

He brings little of anything to the table and would in fact probably drag McCain down in the polls.

So as a loyal Democrat I say: Please, pick him.

A friend and I recently discussed getting Forrest Whittaker as Idi Amin just saying “Health Care – You Have It Now!!” for the Democrats… but the character has a little baggage outside of Whittaker’s great performance.

“Nicolas… You did not persuade me.”

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has finally surpassed New York Senator Hillary Clinton in the polls. Unfortunately for Romney, it’s a poll measuring the number of people committing to vote against him.

The Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 44% of Likely Voters would definitely vote against Romney if he’s on the ballot in 2008. That’s a point higher than the 43% who would definitely vote against Clinton. Only one other possible candidate surpassed Clinton in this category all year (former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who is not considered a candidate at this time).

I should also note that besides Fox, Rasmussen’s polls tend to be the most friendly to conservatives. (Via CS in the Forums)

UPDATE: Romney running out of money?

Despite his “pro-life” campaign pitch, former Gov. Mitt Romney owns stock in two companies involved in embryonic stem cell research, a controversial field of study he previously cited as the reason for his rightward shift on abortion.

Romney holds stock in the biomedical firms Novo Nordisk and Millipore Corp., both of which use human embryos to research cures for chronic diseases, records show. Many conservatives fiercely oppose the research because it destroys the embryos in the process.

ALSO: Ron Paul got less votes than Tom Tancredo. Apparently the 9/11 truthers aren’t exactly big time voters.

ALSO ALSO: Republicans had problems with voting machines. Imagine.