Wolf Blizter recently asked Veep contender and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford about the differences between McCain’s economic platform and Bush’s. Result? He couldn’t come up with anything. At that point the chattering class basically 86′d him from the Veep list.
Now Wolf turns his attention to Romney and asks him about McCain’s legislative achievements in [...]

That’s the word from The Washington Times…
They say Mr. Romney lacks trust on issues such as outlawing abortion and opposing same-sex marriage and because he is a Mormon. Opposition is particularly powerful among those who supported former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in the Republican presidential primaries earlier this year.
“McCain and Romney would be like oil [...]

That’s the report coming out today.
Mitt Romney would be the “safe choice,” the guy you go with to shore up a range of weaknesses, not the least of which being the economy. But choosing Romney would sacrifice the opportunity to choose someone dynamic enough to shake up this race. Romney might help bring out more [...]

Hahaha, well Mitt…you might want to tell Dick Lugar that.
I swear, the more Mitt talks, the less credible he seems. I don’t know how he does it.

Seriously, Karl… That’s so cliche of you to pick two former presidential running mates. As punishment, I’m going to remind everyone about the time you got down with your bad self (”MC Rove“) at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Anyway, this Sunday, Karl Rove came on “Fox News Sunday” and told Chris Wallace what he thinks [...]

The money game is starting to get hairy for her. Earlier this year she loaned her campaign $5 million, and now this latest brings her close to $12 million total. That’s not anywhere close to Romney’s $35 million bust, but we’re not talking about chicken feed here.
From TPM comes this from Hillary spokesperson Howard Wolfson:
“Senator [...]

A new poll shows a wide cross section of opinion…with Mike Huckabee topping the list? Is that the guy Republicans really want to be a heartbeat away from the top spot?
From Gallup:
Nomination also-rans Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney receive the most mentions when Republicans are asked whom they would most like to see as McCain’s [...]

As anybody who reads PoliGazette on a regular basis knows, Michael van der Galiën has been very clear about his distaste for Obama’s brand of politics. And while I very rarely think Michael is giving Obama a fair shake, I understand that he’s not convinced that somebody so “new” can bring about the change he’s [...]

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How very un-Reagan of him.
From Politico:
Mitt Romney said in his first interview since departing the GOP race that he would accept the number two position on the ticket and that there is no lingering bitterness between him and John McCain.
“I think any Republican leader in this country would be honored to be asked to serve [...]

Now that’s a load of dough!
From Boston.com:
His campaign reported to the Federal Election Commission yesterday that he loaned his campaign $6.95 million during January to reach that total.
The former Massachusetts governor’s total self-financing puts him ahead of Steve Forbes, the publisher who spent $38 million on his unsuccessful run for the GOP nomination in 1996, [...]

If Mitt keeps going, the terrorists could win…and he just can’t do that to this country.

See you in 2012 Mitt. By the way, we’ll still be “at war” then too. And in 2016, and 2020 and on and on until we figure out a way to rid the world of terrorism. But I’m sure we [...]

I guess this is the new trend these days. You suspend your campaign, but you don’t drop out because maybe you have enough delegates to throw your weight around come convention time. Because Edwards didn’t technically quit, he just suspended his campaign too.
So Mark Halperin is saying it’s going to come at his CPAC speech [...]

Because he lost Missouri and California, his campaign is going to have serious discussions about the future of the campaign. And this is coming DIRECTLY from the Romney campaign.
Wow. Romney is dropping out and Huckabee is sticking around?

Again, this is really, really early. I wouldn’t necessarily trust this right now because it’s late and I think they want to call it early for these candidates so they can go to bed.
If I were Romney, I wouldn’t concede this quite yet.

Finally some good news for Mitt, but the night isn’t shaping up good for him so far.
There’s still California, though, so we’ll have to wait before we speculate if he’s truly over or not.

ABC just projected…
Barack takes…
Illinois
Hillary takes…
Oklahoma
McCain takes…
New Jersey (winner take all)
Connecticut (winner take all)
Illinois (not winner take all)
Romney takes…
Massachusetts (winner take all)
Huckabee takes…
West Virginia (winner take all)

Remember, most of these are winner-take-all, so even if you get close it doesn’t mean anything. But these numbers are VERY early.
From National Review…

California: McCain 40, Romney 36, Huckabee 10.
Missouri: Romney 34, McCain 32, Huckabee 25.
Georgia: Huckabee 34, Romney 31, McCain 30.
New York: McCain 46, Romney 35, Huckabee 10.
New Jersey: McCain 48, Romney 35, Huckabee [...]

Because of their “unique” caucus rules, West Virginians had to vote twice. After the first vote, Romney had the top spot, Huckabee was second and McCain was third. But a candidate has to get over 50% in order to get the winner-take-all delegates, and Romney only had 40.9%.
Then McCain called his people and told [...]

In the latest Zogby poll, Obama has widened his lead in California, tied it up in New Jersey, taken a lead in Missouri and holds a 17 point lead in Georgia.
One note…if Hillary loses California, that’s a big story. The other big states like New York and Illinois can both be seen as home field [...]