comMITTed to Romney!

Even after the guy drops out, the MSM still working overtime to keep him down. McClatchy spells out their list, six deep, and Mitt is nowhere to be seen. Here’s their list:

…here’s a set of names, with the pros and cons of each person most often mentioned by Republicans:

HALEY BARBOUR, 60, governor of Mississippi

Pro: Popular former national party chairman helped Republicans win Congress in 1994 and got very good reviews for his leadership when Hurricane Katrina struck his state in 2005.

Con: A long record as a Washington lobbyist that could clash with McCain’s reform message.

CHARLIE CRIST, 51, governor of Florida

Pro: He’s a popular governor whose endorsement helped McCain win the critical Florida primary. As running mate, he’d probably help put this big swing state solidly in the Republican column.

Con: His refusal to back an anti-gay marriage initiative and appointment of Democrats to head state agencies tar him as suspect to the party base.

MIKE HUCKABEE, 52, former governor of Arkansas

Pro: He’s shown his ability to win in the South and has support among evangelical Christians. A solid social conservative.

Con: He raised taxes as governor and supported equal benefits for the Arkansas children of illegal immigrants. Picking him might not excite conservatives.

KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON, 64, senator from Texas

Pro: Offers a gender balance to the ticket and wins handily in her mega-state.

Con: Support for financing embryonic stem-cell research worries social conservatives. Also, she’s probably more interested in running for governor.

CONDOLEEZZA RICE, 53, secretary of state

Pro: First black woman on the ticket provides racial and gender balance against a Democratic ticket sure to have either a black or a woman.

Con: Nobody knows what she thinks about hot-button issues from abortion to taxes. Also, her record on Iraq and other security issues could provide a running debate with her own running mate, who criticized many of those stands.

MARK SANFORD, 47, governor of South Carolina

Pro: Young, vibrant conservative with a record of fighting spending while in the House, a McCain theme.

Con: Wouldn’t add a state to the McCain column. McCain should carry South Carolina without him.

Now, I’m completely undecided as to whether a Veep spot is really good for Mitt anyway, but I have a hard time believing that Mitt is not even on the top 6 list above some of these other people.

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Looky here —–>Fox News.

Mike Huckabee said Friday that he does not remember if he even wrote the line in a controversial journal article calling President Bush’s foreign policy “arrogant bunker mentality,” after the article drew criticism from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

The Republican presidential candidate’s piece in the January-February edition of Foreign Affairs said that Bush’s foreign policy is “counterproductive,” and urged a shift in diplomatic tone. GOP rival Mitt Romney afterward condemned the comments and Rice called them “simply ludicrous” on Friday.

But Huckabee told reporters aboard a bus in Iowa that he was not the sole author of that piece.

Continuing…

Rice made a brief foray into election politics on Friday when she denounced Huckabee’s assessment.

“The idea that somehow this is a go-it-alone policy is just simply ludicrous,” she said at a State Department news conference. “One would only have to be not observing the facts, let me say that, to say that this is now a go-it-alone foreign policy.”

and…

In the article, Huckabee — or at least his advisers — wrote: “American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out … The Bush administration’s arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad. My administration will recognize that the United States’ main fight today does not pit us against the world but pits the world against the terrorists.”

In one specific criticism, Huckabee said Bush did not send enough troops to invade Iraq. And he accused the president of marginalizing Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, who said at the outset of the war that it might take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to control Iraq after the invasion. “I would have met with Shinseki privately and carefully weighed his advice,” the article said.

Even if Huckabee didn’t write the “bunker mentality” line, he’s still espoused that criticism before.

This is coming from a man who doesn’t have the slightest clue about Foreign Policy. Fellow Americans wake up and small the coffee, this man would be dangerous for our country.

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