Just who do you want to put in charge of our miserable economy? A guy like Barack Obama, who’s spent a whopping $833,000 on hotel stays while campaigning for president thus far, or Hillary Clinton, who’s saved over $330,000 over Obama on her hotel bills during that same course of time?

Even really rich Republicans like Mitt Romney and John McCain spent far less on hotel stays than Obama, according to records gathered by the Holiday Inn Express hotels.  Read more…

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FOX News has aired a video showing Mitt Romney dining at KFC for a photo opportunity on a recent campaign stop. “First he took the skin off the chicken, and then ate it with knife and fork!” according to a disbelieving viewer. “The anchor pointed out that the whole point of going to KFC is to pick the chicken up and eat it skin and all.”

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Except he didn’t:

The Michigan Republican Party mistakenly sent out a news release Tuesday night congratulating John McCain for winning the state’s GOP primary.

It quickly issued a second statement praising Mitt Romney for his win.

“Heading into tonight, this race was too close to call, so we prepared a release for either scenario,” state GOP spokesman Bill Nowling said. “We simply pushed the wrong button.”

The Associated Press named Romney the GOP winner when polls closed in Michigan’s western Upper Peninsula at 9 p.m. EST.

The first GOP release went out just minutes later and stated, “In a close-fought victory, Senator John McCain succeeded again (in) the Michigan Republican primary, winning over a traditionally unpredictable voter base in Michigan.”

Five minutes after that, the party sent a release that said, “In a close-fought victory, native son Governor Mitt Romney won an important contest here tonight.”

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Mitt Romney may be over-relying on his dad’s coattails to do well in Michigan, political insiders in the state tell Big Head DC.

“Sure, George Romney was seen as a great governor for the state in the 1960s,” one source familiar with the current Romney campaign told us. “But that was a generation ago. Most people in their thirties and even forties don’t remember George, let alone ones in their twenties.”

Many believe that John McCain holds far greater name recognition for younger voters, and his 2000 win in the state is still fondly remembered. Indeed, the McCain victory might have cost then-Gov. John Engler a VP seat on the George W. Bush ticket, since Engler promised he’d help bring home a win for Bush among Michiganders.

The current race in the Great Lakes state is seen as an important one for Romney to win, if he wants to continue on in the GOP primary process. To date, he’s fared much worse than pundits had expected.

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“CNN’s Anderson Cooper asks: ‘What does it say about Mitt Romney that the more money he spends and the more people get to know him, the less they like him? If anyone should know the answer to that question, it’s A.C.’” So says Seattle Times columnist Ron Judd. Ouch. Finally, someone who’s meaner than us.

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Mitt Romney accused Ron Paul of not understanding Islamic Jihadism, and Rudy Giuliani said Paul’s foreign policy is flawed during tonight’s ABC News debate. Paul’s war opinions became center stage many times during the proceedings.

Paul, who has been left out of a forum to take place on FOX News tomorrow evening, become a last minute addition to the lineup after the ABC News network received criticism for initially excluding the GOP congressman.

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It’s pandemonium on the ground in Iowa, as jolly Mike Huckabee has squished into a jet to fly off to chat with Jay Leno. In his place actor Chuck Norris has started doing interviews in which he routinely calls Mitt Romney a sissy. And he really, truly has been proudly toting the number of people Huckabee has murdered over his lifetime.

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Call him wishy washy on abortion, gun control and other stuff, too, but GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was firm on one crucial issue during his appearance on Meet the Press today: His house is not pink.

After host Tim Russert read an excerpt from a recent Boston Globe article that called out Romney, a critic of illegal immigration, for using illegal immigrants to perform yardwork at his Massachusetts residence, the White House wannabe said: “I have to clear up the most egregious error in that article. It said my house was pink. I would not have a pink house, I assure you.”

Russert didn’t seem amused enough to ask the obvious follow-up: What color is Romney’s house, and how could the Boston Globe have gotten that detail wrong? Is Romey implying the reporers in Boston are color blind? We think this situation warrants an immediate investigation.

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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney may say he’s a proud Mormon, but not proud enough to wear Mormon undergarments, according to a snoopy bathroom reporter from one of the nation’s leading newspapers.

Many in the Mormon Church choose to wear what they call temple garments, a set of underclothing traditionally worn by adults who have taken part in a ritual ceremony known as washing and anointing ordinance. The underwear is supposed to be worn regularly, and is held as sacred.

Today’s Baltimore Sun pokes fun at the tradition in an article titled, “I See Utah, I See France,” which details a time when a reporter from the paper visited Romney at his personal residence in Utah during the 2002 Olympics.

Said reporter happened to use his private bathroom and noticed a pair of underwear hanging on the back of the door as she reached for the knob to leave. They were male underwear, size 34, and were made by Fruit of the Loom.

Romney’s refused to address the issue in the past, so the paper ran the story by a campaign spokeswoman, apparently in an effort to determine whether he really doesn’t wear Mormon underwear. She was not amused, and did not comment.

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