Mitt Romney: Sour Grapes or leaving the sinking ship?

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Romney Gets Ready To Run If McCain Fails

Like his father, Mitt Romney ran for governor and won. Like his father, Mitt Romney ran for president and lost.

But even if his former GOP rival John McCain wins the presidency in November, Romney says he won’t emulate his father by taking a Cabinet position _ apparently because he still has his eye on the presidency.

“I saw my dad serve in the Cabinet, and I learned something from that experience,” the former Massachusetts governor said Tuesday. “He felt he was kind of soldiered (manhandled) by the young folks in the White House, and then there’s the big bureaucracy that you try and move. It’s hard to do that. I just don’t have any interest in a Cabinet position.”

Since ending his own bid for the Republican presidential nomination in February, Romney has done everything asked of him to advance McCain’s candidacy.

He played attack dog in media interviews arranged by the McCain staff, enduring hoots and hollers last week as he visited news sets on the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Denver. He recommended one of his best advisers, former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman, to McCain. And he and his team raised more than $20 million for his once cash-strapped rival, all of which prompted McCain’s top advisers to chat up the possibility that Romney might become the Arizona senator’s running mate.

Yet last Thursday, as Romney traveled the California coast urging supporters to give McCain’s campaign more money, McCain offered the vice presidential nomination to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. McCain told Romney his decision Friday, the day Palin’s selection was announced.

In one sense, it was a crushing blow. But in another, it was liberating.

While Romney wished McCain and Palin well, his friends and advisers say if they fail in the general election, Romney is primed _ even anxious _ to mount a second bid for the White House.

Republican Convention: Day 2, Red meat, red states

CNN:Campbell Brown: I think I was surprised by the political nature, the extent to which we got a lot of red meat from all of the speakers quite frankly, particularly Laura Bush and President Bush, giving what I felt was pretty overtly political remarks from that setting, in the White House. I’m still trying to get my arms around what they were hoping to accomplish and whether there was a real message to come out of this. Is it the experience of John McCain, conveying to people that, be it through the biography that I thought was told so well through Fred Thompson, combined with the issues of experience, his ability to reach across party lines conveyed by Joe Liberman? Does all of this convey to people that this is the man that you want in the foxhole with you? There’s so much at stake in this election, you can’t take any risk. And ultimately what we find as this conversation continues, that he undermines that argument by his choice of vice president.

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Another Gay Sequel

BestGayBlogs: Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! should be retitled, The Big Gay Movie One Woman and Hundreds of Men Saw Saturday Night at OUTFEST. Not that I’m complaining. I absolutely loved the first film, Another Gay Movie. I often cite it as the most fair and inclusive gay comedy I’ve ever seen. Sandwiched between sex jokes and Richard Hatch’s genitalia is a cast of teen characters unabashedly and unapologetically gay, a refreshing change from the usual coming-of-age gay films.
Read the entire review at glaadorg.nexcess.net or watch the trailer at rockettube.com.