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It seems that, as Susie formerly called him, Pete Peterson's pet dog, the smarmy David Walker, made his way back onto MSNBC this Friday and surprise, surprise, he's endorsing Mitt Romney. Color me not shocked, even though the media constantly tries to portray this guy as some bipartisan straight shooter.

Apparently Walker isn't too happy that he hasn't managed to get his "grand bargain" passed under President Obama and he twists himself in knots trying to defend Romney's fuzzy math on his budget numbers that simply don't add up without raising taxes on the middle class and resorts to more or less questioning what the definition of middle class is.

As Susie noted in the post linked above, regardless of what Walker says here, she went to one of his seminars and the people who were in attendance were not buying the snake oil the man and his group were selling. You can read more about Walker and Pete Peterson here: Peterson's Grand Bargain Campaign To Kick Off After Election and here: Meet Pete Peterson, Architect of Social Security and Medicare Cuts.

Rough transcript of Walker's interview below the fold.

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Mitt Romney just got another ringing endorsement from one his fellow Republicans who is also a member of the Mormon Church... or maybe not. On this Sunday's Meet the Press, Rep. Raul Labrador had this to say about Romney appearing to have the nomination wrapped up:

LABRADOR: Like I said before, I have not endorsed Mitt Romney, I'm not going to go out and endorse him, but I think he's going to be the candidate. And I do believe it's time for Republicans to get around... to get behind him, because we know he's going to be the candidate and it's time to beat Obama.

They're all holding their nose with their support of him. The Boston Globe has more on some of the earlier portion of the segment above where Labrador was complaining about Lawrence O'Donnell saying mean things about the Mormon Church -- Media will make Mitt Romney’s faith a major campaign issue, Rep. Raul Labrador predicts :

Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho predicted Sunday that the media would make Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith a major issue in the Republican front-runner’s expected general election contest with President Obama.

Romney’s religion was on the table Easter Sunday during religion-themed political talk shows, including NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where Labrador was a guest. Labrador, also a Mormon, was responding to Utah Senator Orrin Hatch’s statement Tuesday that the Obama campaign is “going to throw the Mormon Church at him like you can’t believe.”

“I think the media is going to do that for the Obama campaign,” Labrador said.

As evidence, Labrador cited “nasty things” said Tuesday by MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell.

“Mormonism was created by a guy in upstate New York in 1830 when he got caught having sex with the maid and explained to his wife that God told him to do it,” O’Donnell said on his show. “Forty-eight wives later, Joseph Smith’s lifestyle was completely sanctified in the religion he invented to go with it. Which Mitt Romney says he believes.” [...]

Labrador, who has not endorsed Romney for president, said “everyone in politics is going to be influenced by their faith.” But he agreed with Romney’s argument that religion should have minimal influence on voters.

“What you need to look at is the man, Mitt Romney,” Labrador said. “We need to look at his life and the things that he’s done. And clearly he’s had a very good life.”

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It looks like an endorsement by that "kingmaker" Rep. Steve King in Iowa is turning out to be about as important as one from the Snowbilly from Wasilla during this GOP presidential primary race.

On CNN's State of the Union, Candy Crowley still couldn't get King to commit to which candidate he wants to endorse even though we're just days away from the Iowa caucuses.

CROWLEY: You can't be in Iowa too long without hearing the name Steve King. The Republican congressman's endorsement is well quoted by some of the presidential candidates stomping through this state. But so far they've come up empty-handed. And that's including one of his good friends, Michele Bachmann.

Steve King is join meg here in Des Moines. Congressman, thank you so much for being here. I want to remind you of the last time we were together, which was in August right after the Ames straw poll, which was won by your good friend, Michele Bachmann.

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REP. STEVE KING (R-IOWA): I, like everyone, needs to measure who would make the best President of the United States. I already know who will make the best friend. But we need to weigh who will make the best President of the United States, and I want to sit back for a while and get into September and see how these candidates conduct themselves.

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CROWLEY: Not only are we into September, we're actually into January now. We have two more days, three more -- two more days till the caucuses. Who's your choice here?

KING: OK, first I was wearing the same time, and so I need to go out and buy some ties. But it was my choice. And, you know, this is just a very tough decision. And --

CROWLEY: Why is it so tough though?

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This ad from the Brave New Films' "Politicians Unmasked" Facebook page gives me hope. Is it possible that for enough voters, the endorsement of the Tea Party and Sarah Palin will be a negative?

Perhaps the more important question is, is the pressure on the Tea Party to root out the racists in their ranks, alienating their base? Heh.

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Rush Limbaugh isn't endorsing Sarah Palin for president in 2012 but he says she's ready for the job now.

"One thing I do not do is follow conventional wisdom, and the conventional wisdom of Sarah Palin is "She's not smart enough. She needs to bone up on the issues. She's a little unsophisticated. Alaska, Where's that?, [She] doesn't have the pedigree,'" Limbaugh told Fox News' Chris Wallace. "She's the only thing that provided a spark for the Republican Party. This is not an endorsement, but i do have profound respect for Sarah Palin. There are not very many politicians who have been through what she's been put through and still able to smile and be ebullient and upbeat. This woman, I think, is tough," he said.

October 26, 2008 CNN D.L. Hughley