Evangelicals for Mitt’s Nancy French has a transcript from Laura Bush’s appearance on Larry King Live.  Laura personifies class.

Article VI’s John believes the Boston Globe’s “revelation” yesterday was done to establish Mitt as the “Larry the Cable Guy” of 2008.  Yes, John, you have a slightly warped sense of humor, but I get it.  Don’t go booking Leno yet.

The Washingtonian’s Garrett Graff and Delece Smith-Barrow list Mitt’s DC Team.  Lots of serious heavy hitters with good resumes there.

American Chronicle’s David Bresnahan chastises the “Flip Flop” crowd.  Here’s his bottom line:

The Boston Globe’s Scott Helman got a hold of an internal Mitt campaign document.  Evidently it’s a 77 page PowerPoint presentation.  Memo to Mitt Campaign Guys:  Haven’t you ever heard of an Executive Summary?  End of Memo.  There isn’t much new in Helman’s report.  Personally, I’d rather see the presentation for myself and find out what Helman didn’t find newsworthy.  If anyone cares to send it to me, my contact info is on the sidebar.

The AP’s Liz Sidoti, published in Oklahoma’s New Hope Courier, tries – and fails – to paint Mitt as a shifty politician.  Look, Liz, I actually read the position statements and speeches.  If you bother to look beyond what the MSM reports, you’d be surprised at how little of your report makes sense.

Canada’s Angus Reid Global Monitor has some polling date out of Utah that says 55% of Utahns believe Mitt’s religion hurts his chances of attaining the Oval Office.  Sadly, this is not surprising.  Utah, for better or worse, is a religious state where religion and even the degree of religion is always an issue in every campaign.  Moving on.

I guess it’s a good thing the campaign is a marathon and not a sprint.

When I started reading Daniel Gross’ Slate piece on Mitt, I thought it was just another run of the mill MSM hit piece on Mitt.  Then I came to this paragraph:

I’ll start today with David Brody’s report about an email making the rounds of the Internet.  The reported author is Paul Nagy former head of the Christian Coalition in New Hampshire.  Memo to Paul:  They’re called facts.  You might want to find some of them before you start typing.

RealClearPolitics’ Tom Bevan has an interview with Mitt.  Kudos to Tom for asking tough questions about important matters.  You’ll note the word “Mormon” doesn’t appear in the interview.

Cue the conspiracy nutcases.  The lone Mormon legislator in South Carolina has declared for Mitt.

Get Religion’s Daniel Pulliam misses the point on Mitt and Polygamy.  Says Daniel:

The Associated Press’ Jennifer Dobner and Glen Johnson are loving life.  They did some digging under Mitt’s Family Tree and found [drum roll] Polygamy.  I know you must be shocked.  The MSM was.  Dobner’s and Johnson’s piece was picked up by no fewer than sixteen media outlets who think this revelation is newsworthy.

What’s the matter, boys and girls?  Slow news cycle?  Before people get too wrapped up in this, realize that Ms. Dobner and Mr. Johnson had to dig back to Mitt’s Great Grandfather Miles Park Romney and Great Great Grandfather Parley Pratt to find this information.  How many of you (Mormons excluded) can name your Great or Great Great Grandaddy?  Do you know anything about them?  Are you responsible for their actions?

Get back to me when you can answer those questions.  Till then, stuff a sock in it.  Yes, I’m a bit perturbed because you don’t have to shake my family tree too hard before the polygamists start falling out.  If we’re going to start this with Mitt, then I suggest each presidential candidate submit a seven-generation ancestry chart complete with family history so we can see exactly what his/her ancestor’s were up to. 

As every family tree has some strange branches in it - especially when you look at history through the politically correct lens of today, I think some candidates would be surprised by what’s in their tree.  Hillary might find her forebearers practiced something worse than polygamy.  Some of them were no doubt [gasp] Republicans.

Cross posted at MyManMitt

 With the inauguration of George W. Bush, there came to the Oval Office the first man to serve there who had been schooled in the ways and art of Business.  Bush holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School.  Mitt holds this same degree in addition to his Law degree – both from Harvard.  I hold an MBA as well, albeit not from Harvard.

Part of any MBA curriculum are courses dedicated to teaching the principles of marketing.  Every student has to take these classes, and although most people see such classes as “fluff” when compared to the hard sciences of accounting, finance and economics.  The bottom line is you can finance, design, and build the best products known to man kind but if you don’t find innovative ways to induce people to buy them your business will eventually find its way into bankruptcy.

Some politicians are either good at marketing themselves or they have people who are good at doing it for them.  As in the world of business, politics is a competitive environment.  How a politician deals with his/her opponent is probably more important than what he or she actually says and does over the course of the campaign. One of the first things taught in advanced Marketing courses is the hard and fast rule that you don’t demean your competition.  Highlighting differences and areas in which you or your product out performs the competition is important.  Slamming the competition’s product or representatives has a tendency to leave a bad taste in the mouth of the customer.While this analogy can only be loosely fitted to the political world in which we now find ourselves, there are some quite recent examples of how some Presidential contenders deal with their opponents.  Take first the Hillary-Obama Dust Up.  Both of those Democratic contenders – more Hillary than Obama – took an issue which should’ve died a quick death and turned it into a media frenzy.  In this case, not all publicity is good publicity.

411Mania’s Dan Martin pens a post on Mitt.  He laments Mitt’s support for further tax cuts citing “Deficit Hawk” status.  Memo to Dave:  I guess you missed the latest news on the Federal Deficit.  Cutting taxes raises revenue – it’s a proven fact.  Take Econ 101 before spouting off on stuff you can’t back up.  As for the rest of your column…blah, blah, blah.  Original thought anyone?  Bueller?

Mitt wants New York to divest its pension funds from the banks of the Iranian Mullahs.  Not a bad idea if you ask me.

The Palm Beach Post’s Steve Gushee needs a spell checker.  Its “Moroni”, not “Noroni”.  Other than that, Steve hits its straight down the fairway.

Mitt made an interesting but very important pledge in South Carolina: