It’s either Romney or Paul for you, Virginia. Jon Moseley: UNCONSTITUTIONAL” but TOO LATE to do anything about it, was the ruling of United States District Court Judge John A. Gibney on January 10, 2012, in the Federal lawsuit filed by Governor Rick Perry. Perry sued in late December to appear on Virginia’s ballot, after only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul qualified for the Republican primary. Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum,

I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me.

Well, he used different words — he wishes to “streamline” the government to rid it of the messiness and redundancy that prevents him from ruling as a dictator from his perch as Chief Executive — but in the end, let’s just go ahead and call a spade a spade. RACISTS! (h/t GeoffB)

A useful question. A better one? Will it even matter to those on our own side intent on selling us the pretty polished Romney package? From health care to environmental concerns to, perhaps, auto bailouts, Romney seems more in line with progressive thinking than with conservative thinking — down to and including his latest suggestions that Bain Capital was out to save and create jobs, not make a profit, profit

Jim Geraghty, joining the ranks of a whole host of GOP opinion leaders put off by all this “Establishment” GOP talk, looks to set the record straight — even if that means you conspiratorial Hobbits are going to have to take it on your unnuanced chins. Drawing on the early primary and caucus numbers, Geraghty writes: Either the conservative base does not hold such a numerical advantage over the “Establishment,”