Romney is #37 on The BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007

From The BEAST's list.

37. Mitt Romney

Charges: America's first clip-art presidential candidate, Romney is a strange mixture of game show host looks and android charm. A true flip-flopper, Romney's ability to turn on an ideological dime is unparalleled, but his excuses are so inauthentic that even Republicans have trouble suspending their disbelief.

Exhibit A: "You can't have freedom without religion, and you can't have religion without freedom."

Sentence: Strapped to the roof of his family car, which his dog attempts to drive across the country, but crashes horribly (because dogs can't drive, of course). Romney's flesh burns off in the ensuing fire, revealing him to be a standard protocol droid set to world domination mode. Narrowly edged out of primary race by Huckabee.

I was hoping for #1, but hey, it's a honor just to be nominated.

Concord Monitor: "Anyone But Romney in 2008"

This week the New Hampshire capital's paper made a very clear announcement with regard to the presidential election: "Romney should not be the next president."

According to the Monitor:

If you were building a Republican presidential candidate from a kit, imagine what pieces you might use: an athletic build, ramrod posture, Reaganesque hair, a charismatic speaking style and a crisp dark suit. You'd add a beautiful wife and family, a wildly successful business career and just enough executive government experience. You'd pour in some old GOP bromides - spending cuts and lower taxes - plus some new positions for 2008: anti-immigrant rhetoric and a focus on faith.

Add it all up and you get Mitt Romney, a disquieting figure who sure looks like the next president and most surely must be stopped.

They go on to expose Romney for the opportunistic fraud that he is and close with a message close to this blog's heart:

When New Hampshire partisans are asked to defend the state's first-in-the-nation primary, we talk about our ability to see the candidates up close, ask tough questions and see through the baloney. If a candidate is a phony, we assure ourselves and the rest of the world, we'll know it.

Mitt Romney is such a candidate.

Wow...And Team Romney thought Iowa was in trouble...This op-ed is probably the strongest anti-endorsement a newspaper has ever given to a single candidate outside of David Duke, and is particularly nasty for Romney and Sons coming out of the first primary state that neighbors Willard's "home" state. It seems as though this whole Anyone But Romney in 2008 thing is catching on...

Huckabee's Response to Romney's Attack Ads...

This is a pretty gangster move...I think they are both out of their minds, but this is just great theater. Take that Mitt! Trying to hate on baby Jesus on his birthday.

Romney Gets Emotional On Meet The Press

Willard "Mitt" Romney said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” yesterday that he wept with relief when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormon church, announced a 1978 revelation that the priesthood would no longer be denied to persons of African descent.

Further proving that he really is the biggest phony running for office, Romney’s eyes appeared to fill with tears as he discussed this embarrassing subject.

That's 1978 folks, not 1958...10 years after MLK was shot...14 years after the civil rights bill...when ole' Willard was 31 years old!!

Olbermann Chews Willard Romney A New One...

I think Keith may dislike Willard more than I do.

Lawrence O'Donnell goes off on Romney and Mormons

OK Larry, now tell us what you really think.

The complete Mitt Romney "I love Jesus too!" Religion Speech from 12/06/07.

From TMP:

A spokesman for the Mitt Romney campaign is thus far refusing to say whether Romney sees any positive role in America for atheists and other non-believers, after Election Central inquired about the topic yesterday

It's a sign that Romney may be seeking to submerge evangelical distaste for Mormonism by uniting the two groups together in a wider culture war. Romney's speech has come under some criticism, even from conservatives like David Brooks and Ramesh Ponnuru, for positively mentioning many prominent religions but failing to include anything positive about atheists and agnostics.

Indeed, the only mentions of non-believers were very much negative. "It is as if they're intent on establishing a new religion in America – the religion of secularism. They're wrong," Romney said, being met by applause from the audience.

I actually thought it was a pretty good speech. Don't get me wrong, I still think he's a total douchebag and disagree with almost all of his points, most of which I found offensive to my very ethos, but as speeches go, it wasn't that bad.

Mitt Romney's is Countdown's "Worst Person In The World"

From Crooks and Liars:

Columnist and FOXNews regular, Charles Krauthammer, won the Bronze award on Countdown’s Worst Person in the World segment on Wednesday, for his misrepresentation of the recent non-embryonic stem cell discovery, claiming President Bush’s ban made it possible — which is a total fabrication. BillO gets the Silver for his latest War On Christmas segment where he chided a woman who is trying to take the commercialization out of Christmas, and Gold went to Mitt Romney for doing his best Donald Trump by abruptly firing the landscaping company that worked at his mansion after being called out for it by Rudy Giuliani in the last Republican debate. Now that’s one classy guy…