Things that amuse me:

John Edwards’ mom promising me a pie recipe for a donation to his campaign. Apparently June 10th is his birthday, and she wants at least $6.10 by that date for her son’s campaign coffers to give out her secret recipe. Clever. Inventive. One thing for Edwards to keep in mind: Not everyone on his email list is a potential supporter…or even a Democrat. 😉

Hillary’s misspelled sign.

RNCC chairman Tom Cole continuing to request money from me to support Republicans and to support a president who have stopped listening to the conservative base. Actually, I think this annoys me more than it amuses me. President Bush has become increasingly hostile to the few supporters he has left because we disagree on this immigration bill, and some Republicans are going to pay the price for this, even if the president himself will not. This is an incredible level of tone-deafness both by the “leadership” of the Republican party in Washington and our figurehead leader Dubya. What will it take to wake them up? Losing a few more elections?

Other random links for your consideration:

The Heritage Foundation answers the question: “Is this immigration bill any better than the one in 1986?” Based on the 1986 bill that Ronald Reagan also thought would solve the illegal immigration problem, Heritage shows why this new immigration bill is not much better than the last one.

Also worthy of note is one of Michael Medved’s articles at Townhall, where he asks, “Should Mormonism disqualify a candidate?” He says no, and makes a strong case for his argument. I agree with Medved, and I believe that Romney should be judged on his record and the way he answers tough questions. The fact that he’s a Mormon shouldn’t scare anybody, but it does. Because Mormonism creeps people out, especially here in the South, it seems to be more acceptable to say things about a Mormon candidate that you would never say about a Christian candidate or Jewish candidate. I’m not a big fan of the Mormon religion, but saying that “A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan” (as Florida televangelist Bill Keller did) is a totally ridiculous statement. There should be better reasons to accept or reject a candidate than his or her religion, and I hope that we will take those other factors into consideration before deciding on the Republican and Democratic nominees for president.