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Guess who will for sure be John McCain’s pretend vice president until November 4? Creepy businessman Mitt Romney, that’s who! According to a Super Exclusive and Very Weird Sentence by CO-ED Magazine, which is actually a website full of hot young girls who are more than half naked: “Sen. John McCain will choose businessman and former Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney as Vice President, in his bid for the White House this November, a source closely connected with the McCain campaign, who asked to remain anonymous, told us earlier this afternoon.” MORE »

• GOOD-BYE, VOTERS, I’M GOING TO PRISON! Convicted bribe-taking Alaskan state Rep. Vic Kohring spent his last hours of freedom today standing on the roadside with a home-made “THANKS ALASKA” sign, waving at people driving past him. He got caught in some Ted Stevens’ scam, and now he’s off to a federal prison in the Mojave Desert for up to 3-1/2 years. [TPM Muckraker]

Nothing says “Ha ha, enjoy your black president next year” like this “I WILL HOLD MY NOSE WHEN I VOTE FOR MCCAIN” button sold on a Republican trinket website. There are many other sad and unintentionally hilarious gewgaws for sale at RepublicanMarket.com, but this is the only known example of wingnuts paying two dollars for the privilege of announcing in public that they are repulsed by their only 2008 presidential candidate. [RepublicanMarket.com via Metafilter]

The usual illiterate wingnuts were very upset to learn that Muslim-communist booksellers Barnes & Noble were craftily using a product search engine to convince illiterate wingnuts that their “God” was actually Barack Obama, the messiah. Wait, what? MORE »

Welcome to Wonkette’s Hillary Clinton Graduation Pool Party! We have many “hot dogs” for you to eat, and Miller High Life for the adults. But oh, where is the graduate herself, Hillary Clinton? According to the teevee, she is “at least 10 minutes late.” And she’s supposed to deliver the commencement address, just like she did at Wellesley in 1969, a speech bursting with such Boomer idealism and brilliance that it made her national headlines. And then she married Bill Clinton, a shit. Let’s liveblog Hillary’s second commencement address, in which she will endorse Barack Obama, and start her Second Life. MORE »

• YOU’RE ALL INVITED TO WONKETTE’S HILLARY CLINTON POOL PARTY: Tomorrow, Washington, D.C. will reach a heat index of 105 degrees, Fahrenheit. You will not be able to play outside, so you might as well watch Hillary’s big farewell speech in which she will endorse Senator Barack Obama, depending on your interpretation of “endorse” (shoot?). The speech is planned for noon, and your Wonkette will be here to liveblog it, since we’ll already have been awake for five hours watching Cartoons. Join!

We will be back tonight to provide more blog laffs as we cover the Montana and South Dakota primaries, the final two in this Historic Election between an Historic Black Person and an Historic Woman. Until then, check out the latest gossip and “news” surrounding this End of this Historic Primary Election in History, after the Historic Jump. MORE »

John McCain is doing his best to romance The Hollywoods, but he has found few wealthy gay liberals willing to listen to his uplifting message of war without end. As a result, he has only been able to raise a few paltry dollars from the D list’s D list — Ben Stein, Dick Van Patten, and an assortment of other balding losers who were on a TV show once. Why is Hollywood so ageist against physically and mentally deteriorating old warmongers?

McCain is hoping that he’ll be able to snare support from disaffected southern California Clintards once Hillary drops out of the race. Of course, they’ll have to overlook the fact that he hates abortion, healthcare, peace, and other things that your mom cares about. Will McCain’s crazy plan work? Probably not, which is why he’ll waste millions of dollars and months pursuing the Hollywood vote — there’s nothing he loves more than a losing cause.

Here’s what sad old Dick Van Patten (who to his credit makes some top-notch dog food) has to say about being a McCain supporter in Hollywood: “I’m all alone … I feel isolated. Nobody agrees with me.”

Straight Talk Express stalls in Hollywood [Politico]