Anxious to get people talking about anything other than his tax returns, or lack thereof, the Romney campaign has been hinting that the naming of a running mate may happen at any moment.
The campaign tired this before a few weeks ago, but even the cable pundits weren't buying Condi Rice. This time around such names as Pawlenty, Portman, and Jindal are being floated. If one of these types gets the nod, it will only distract for a few days before people start drifting back to the tax return thing. What Romney needs is a veep candidate who will keep folks occupied for months.
Here are a few possibilities.
Sarah Palin: Worked last time, who says you can't catch lightening (rod) in a bottle twice.
Chuck Norris: Anybody got a problem with that?
Lady GaGa: Genius at attracting attention.
Josh Beckett: Get this guy out of Boston, and Romney might carry New England.
Joe Lieberman: Because it's gotten to be a tradition.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Experienced, currently playing a veep on television.
Queen Of The Tin Foil Helmets
I'm happy to report that the nation's favorite crazy lady, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, has taken her game to new levels of paranoia.
In this latest episode of her long-running affinity for repeating anything anyone tells her, she is claiming the government has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood, and that one of Hillary Clinton's top aides, Huma Abedin, is part of the conspiracy.
Defending Abedin, Sen. John McCain said, "These attacks on Huma have no logic, no basis, and no merit." Of course, McCain could have been talking about anything Her Wackiness has said in the last five or 10 years.
Among those who have also chastised Bachmann is her former campaign manager, Ed Rollins:
"I am fully aware that she sometimes has difficulty with her facts," Rollins said, "but this is downright vicious and reaches the late Sen. Joe McCarthy level."
What is kind of frightening is Bachmann keeps getting re-elected, which makes you wonder just how fashionable tin foil caps may be in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District.
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Actor Fred Willard caught with pants down, arrested in porn theater. His next movie, I'm not making this up, is called "The Yank."
Fred Willard update, his character's name in "The Yank," is Peter.
