the night before the morning after

Important: Harry Reid, for some reason, has scheduled important votes on FISA for tomorrow, when at least two of the votes for not granting immunity will be otherwise engaged and when the resulting news most likely will get lost in the next day's papers. You might want to contact your Senator.

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Now, Super Tuesday. Me, I'm going back and forth between being sure and not being sure what I'm going to do, but here are some folks with greater intestinal fortitude making their case

Phil Nugent* for Hillary

aimai and Patrick for Obama

Thomas Nephew for Edwards

Ain't No Bad Dude on don't know either

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however: if you do vote, it's good to have it count at the end of the day. It turns out that an unaffiliated voter requests a Democratic ballot in CA and doesn't check off the Democratic space at the top of the ballot, their vote isn't counted. You might want to do that (and warn anyone you see on the way in)

meta:

Jane on this Hillary-hating crap has got to stop

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MYDD on the inherent contradictions of the Camelot endorsement race

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Roxanne with why Bill Kristol wants conservatives to vote for McCain, who he loathes: the Supreme Court, which McCain's promised to fill up with "Alito clones" (Sen. Lieberman, who pledged if he was returned to the Senate to support Democratic values and a Democratic nominee, is warmly supportive of his chosen Republican candidate in that). A number of the leading lights of the Alito clone movement appear to believe he's going to do it if he gets the chance. I wouldn't bet against it.

Of course, that's an even better argument for Democrats who don't get the candidate they want to hold their nose in November - save the court and give Bill Kristol an owwie his daddy can't fix for him. A twofer.

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Doghouse has issues with generational voting

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Neat Thing:

Barb has been hired by About.com to be their Guide to Buddhism. Go see her.

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Silliness:

Paulistas are trying to make a case for McCain not being eligible to be president because he was born in Panama where his father (Admiral McCain. Grandfather: also Admiral McCain) was stationed with the Navy. It's not true, but props for originality (except, you know, not even that)

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New Yorkers to Chuck Grassley: Drop Dead

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Rick Santorum, who like Mr. Romney was very glad to have McCain's support back when they still had political futures, is hoping to haul himself back to relevance by making Mr. Romney his new cause because McCain isn't really a conservative and he's unreliable on life issues. This is even more interesting because Santorum made a number of loud phone calls in the hearing of a liberal blogger (who identified himself) to explain why McCain is teh suxxor (as I understand you young folks and Mr. Romney say), even though arguably the most liberal Republican in the Senate, the pro-choice Susan Collins, was worthy of conservative support because she plays ball (presumably on the issues Mr. Santorum's kind of "conservatives" actually care about)

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If you haven't been following the all-important fake tough guy endorsements, I rounded them up here

*he also has a wonderful post-mortem on Our America's Beloved Former Mayor

when the going gets weird the weird turn pro

your Mitt moment of zen

There are hiccups in Mr. Romney’s ability to carry off his insurgent role. In the past, he staked out moderate stances on abortion, gay rights and other issues.

But Mr. Romney’s calls and responses are often a half-beat off and do not quite work as sound bites: “They told us they’d find health care that was affordable and portable for our citizens!”

And they haven’t!

And the darts he hurls at Mr. McCain can feel a bit esoteric, like when he talks of oil drilling in Alaska: “Do you want to have as our nominee a person who voted to say no to drilling for oil in ANWR?”

Nooo!

Mr. Romney has been making more of an effort to cultivate the news media as part of his refashioned candidacy. When he sauntered back onto a flight on Saturday, he broke the ice with an unusual remark.

“What did they say in ‘Star Wars?’ ” he asked. “What’s that line? ‘There’s nothing happening here. These droids aren’t the droids you’re looking for.’ ”

Eric Fehrnstrom, his traveling press secretary, said it had actually been rendered: “These are not the droids you are looking for.”

“These are not the droids you’re looking for,” Mr. Romney said. “Sorry.”