Just when I thought I had heard the best "McCain yells at kids on lawn(s)" jokes, I went to the Huffington Post to see that McCain may get a reprieve from all this media pummeling.
According to "unnamed Republican sources", McCain chose Mitt Romney to be his running mate.
Mark Halprin at Time reports that two Republican leaks have named Romney as McCain's VP choice. Two others, however...
Two additional GOP sources say McCain had not offered the slot to anyone as of Thursday night, and that he could still change his mind.
Whisper, whisper, whisper! Maybe such a mystery will distract the media from all the body-slamming McCain's taking for being hopelessly out of touch with 95% of America?
If that's the idea, I'm sorry to report: FAILURE.
(CBS: December 14th, 2007.)
Romney, worth between $190 million and $250 million, took issue with that comment. But both presidential opponents [primary challengers Huckabee and Thompson] already had planted the idea with Midwestern voters that Romney lives a life of wealth and privilege.
Wait for it...
...Romney has a privileged pedigree...as the son of a former governor and chairman of American Motors. After leaving home, Romney attended Harvard law and business schools, and quickly earned millions of dollars as a venture capitalist.
Wait for it...
[Romney] has three homes, a colonial in Belmont, Mass., that has a tennis court, a lakeside house in Wolfeboro, N.H., with a boat house and stables, and a wood-beamed ski house in Deer Valley, Utah.
Three homes. The jokes write themselves.
I'm going to bed, gotta work tomorrow. I'm saving up for my first boat house.