If it's not Mittsy, I predict the GOOP is giving up the ghost...

[Virginia Dare]

if they were serious about staying in power, they'd install the Bush/Cheney favorite Mitt Romney.

[daggahead]

1. Can W be a vice-president? n/t

[Boz]

2. Actually Pawlenty was the Cheney choice, literally.

Pawlenty initially wanted to run for governor in 2002, but party leaders made it clear that they favored businessman Brian Sullivan for that spot.

Pawlenty shifted his sights to the U.S. Senate but he abandoned those plans when Vice President Dick Cheney asked him to step aside to allow former St. Paul mayor Norm Coleman to challenge Senator Paul Wellstone without Republican primary opposition.

Pawlenty returned to his original gubernatorial ambitions and won a hard-fought and very narrow victory over Sullivan for the party endorsement.

[Virginia Dare]

3. I thought I saw this morning that Pawlenty said no...n/t

[Boz]

4. Yes you did, theyre bailing Rove is selling Big Oil AK Governor Palin on FOX as we type