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Romney Veep Announcement Tomorrow

Gitcho is the Romney campaign's communications director. We should know by 8:45am if they stick to their schedule.

UPDATE: The National Review thinks it's going to be Paul Ryan due to some charter flight activity.

UPDATE II: Snicker.UPDATE III: From my pal and DC politico Karl Frisch. UPDATE IV: Huffington Post is confirming.

Mitt Romney will announce Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his running mate on Saturday, according to two sources with knowledge of the decision. Ryan is a bold pick who will energize the Republican Party, but putting him on the ticket is fraught with risk and instantly puts Ryan's budget plan front and center in the 2012 campaign.

Teabaggers are doing handsprings on Twitter. Lots of egg-y faces tomorrow if the media is wrong.

UPDATE V: HRC gives Ryan a 0% rating on LGBT rights. The Family Research Council rates him 90% good at being a bigoted douchebag. (Points off for voting to continue funding Planned Parenthood.)UPDATE VI: Has there ever been a presidential ticket without a Protestant? Historians? Could be an interesting meme...

CNN Poll Shows Obama Leads By Seven

Published two hours ago by CNN:

It all adds up to a seven point advantage for President Barack Obama over the former Massachusetts governor, with 52% of registered voters questioned in the survey saying that they'd vote to re-elect the president and 45% backing Romney. "Among independent voters, the poll indicates President Obama has a 53%-42% lead," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. "The president holds a nine point advantage among women voters and a smaller six point edge among men."

RELATED: Tea Party and GOP flacks are atwitter over rumors that Romney's VP selection might be announced tomorrow. Breitbart editor Dana Loesch is calling it for Bobby Jindal.

Mitt's VP? He Has An App For That

"There's no telling when the announcement will be, so check back often and enable push notifications to get the exciting news before the press and just about everyone else (except maybe Ann)." I'd actually sign up for the this but it's iPhone only. Source.

A Short List For Romney's Veep?

CNN speculates:

Beth Myers, the woman leading Mitt Romney's running mate search, tweeted a list of names on Friday–all of whom have been speculated as potential VP picks. The tweets come as a surprising post for a campaign that has been strictly tight-lipped about its search process. Romney has repeatedly said only he and Myers were the two who knew the most intimate details about the search process. So far, he has only admitted to vetting Rubio, after a firestorm erupted over reports that the Florida senator was not on the list. The tweets appeared to come at random, as Myers last posted on Twitter back in April–her first and only tweet until Friday. Romney's campaign confirmed that the Twitter posts were authentic.

(Tipped by JMG reader Todd)

Poll: Rice Would Help Romney

Washington Post:

The former secretary of state is the clear choice of Republican voters to be Romney’s vice president, according to a new Fox News poll that shows her garnering the support of 30 percent of them. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is second with 19 percent. The more interesting number, though, is what Rice could do for Romney on the ballot. While President Obama leads Romney overall 45 percent to 41 percent, adding Rice to Romney’s ticket shifts many of the remaining undecided voters to the Republican side, creating a 46 percent to 46 percent tie. That shift, as it happens, is statistically significant. In other words, the poll shows that Rice would move votes into Romney’s column.

Eugene Delgaudio Wants Closet Case Matt Drudge To Be Mitt Romney's Veep Choice

Clearly anti-gay hate group leader Eugene Delgaudio is rilly rilly out of touch regarding closeted homosexual Matt Drudge.

"Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Reagan, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Joe Farah, or Chuck Norris would be a great pick from just ten top conservative leaders," said Delgaudio. "I know there is some kind of boomlet for neo-conservative Condoleezza Rice by Drudge but it got me to thinking," said Delgaudio. Regarding Drudge, Delgaudio said, "Never in the history of the world has so many loyal people listened to one conservative 24 hours a day."

Out Magazine has at least twice named Drudge to their annual "50 Most Powerful Gays" ranking. In openly gay Media Matters founder David Brock's memoir, Blinded By The Right, Brock recounted a date with Drudge:

Drudge, after bringing Brock flowers and navigating the Santa Monica gay strip "like a pro," stepped on a competing suitor's foot "really hard" (in Drudge's purported words) in a nightclub to scare him away from Brock. He also reproduced an overly blunt email in which Drudge wrote, "Laura [Ingraham] spreading stuff about you and me being fuck buddies. I should be so lucky."

The above-linked 2009 Gawker story notes that Drudge has repeatedly given murky responses when asked about his sexuality, once saying, "I do not love sex with men." (Which sounds about right when it comes to homocons and their self-loathing.) In addition to the above press release, Degaudio writes on the Public Advocate site: "It is part of the liberal mind control that you would not think of Vice-President Matt Drudge." I totally can't wait until Delgaudio finally gets clued in.

Drudge Report Veepstakes Poll

WHO SHOULD ROMNEY PICK FOR VP?
JINDAL 8.58% (17,674 votes)
PAWLENTY 4.63% (9,529 votes)
RICE 30.53% (62,854 votes)
RYAN 14.73% (30,317 votes)
RUBIO 41.53% (85,497 votes)
Total Votes: 205,871
Source.

Hate Groups Hate Condi Rice, Part 2

Hate Groups Hate Condi Rice

Maggie Wants Huckabee For VP

"Romney needs to avoid McCain's mistake of picking a running mate who is more interesting and attracts more attention that he does. Huckabee fits the bill perfectly. He not a guy to scare anyone, he's run the presidential gauntlet and been fully vetted, and while a pleasant and interesting man, he is a familiar enough figure on the national scene not to outshine Mitt Romney with novelty. Several others on the shortlist also satisfy these minimal requirements. But Huckabee would do something else for Romney -- something I don't think any other person can do: shore up the evangelical base of the party and ignite genuine enthusiasm for getting Romney/Huckabee to the White House. It's not just Huckabee's style or political positions that would do this. It's the relationship of trust and love he's built with evangelicals and connections to evangelicals across the country. He is beloved. He can motivate. And Romney needs this." - Maggie Gallagher, writing for Townhall. (Via Good As You)

Romney Raffles Off His VP

Via press release:

Friend, We’re getting ready to share some exciting news. Sometime between now and the Republican convention, Mitt will be announcing his choice for VP. Know what’s even more exciting? Every week until the VP announcement is made, one lucky supporter will win the chance to meet Mitt and his choice for VP. This is your chance to meet America’s comeback team. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity -- don’t pass this one up. So donate $3 today to be automatically entered for the chance to meet Mitt and his choice for VP in person.

Headline Of The Day

Breitbart.com speculates:

Ann’s comments came the day after Romney hung out with Sen. Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire. Other prospective women on the list would have to include Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Gov. Susana Martinez (R-NM), Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC), and even former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK). There is little doubt that the Romney campaign wants to reach out to women; Ann is far more popular with women than Mitt. He could certainly do worse than to choose any of the women on the short list above.

Michele Bachmann Won't Deny That She's Being Vetted For Vice President

Please baby Jeebus, let it happen.

Allen West: I'm Ready To Be VP

Sen. Marco Rubio: Against Gay Marriage

"In terms of the Bible's interpretation of marriage, what our faith teaches is pretty straightforward. There's not much debate about that. The debate is about what society should tolerate, and what society should allow our laws to be. I believe marriage is a unique and specific institution that is the result of thousands of years of wisdom, which concluded that the ideal—not the only way but certainly the ideal—situation to raise children to become productive and healthy humans is in a home with a father and mother married to each other. Does that mean people who are not in that circumstance cannot be successful? Of course not. It's not a discriminatory thing. I'm not angry at anyone because of it, but I also have to be honest about what I believe marriage should be in our laws." - Sen. Marco Rubio, in an interview with Christianity Today.

Seen In South Florida

Via Father Tony.

Rubio Releases First Communion Doc: I Told You I Was Totally Not A Mormon!

Because the talibangelicals would totally lose their shit if BOTH dudes on their ticket were Mormons, today Sen. Marco Rubio issued the above document showing that the first time he ate the flesh of Jesus was at the age of 13.

The Palin Gamble

Wonkette's headline for this clip: "Sarah Palin Won’t Be So Fun To Laugh At When She Accidentally Starts a Nuclear War With Russia, North Korea and Iran, and Kills Us All."

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