What Stood Out This Week - 12/2-12/8

Other than the candidate match game (see post below) I didn't pay much attention to politics over the past few days. So let's see What Stood Out This Week...

At some point I read a little something about the celebrity endorsement. Barbra hasn't seemed to help Hillary that much. But Oprah has given Barack a little boost. Apparently, though, Barbra and Oprah can't hold a candle to Walker, Texas Ranger (aka Chuck Norris) whose endorsement of Mike Huckabee caused a popularity explosion. Man, that 70-year-old can really kick ass.

And indeed, there's a lot of media coverage about Mike. Most of the stories that Stood Out involve Mike: He's second in national polls, he's first by a wide margin in Iowa, he's struggling with the increased scrutiny on his record that comes with being a top-tier candidate, he refuses to speak about theology publicly, he freed a serial rapist while governor of Arkansas, and once advocated for quarantining AIDS patients.

It's hard to know if these stories are making it out there nationally, but the NY tabloids continue to hit this thing about the city paying for Rudy Giuliani's trips to bang his then-girlfriend/now-wife out in the Hamptons.

Mitt Romney gave his speech about his faith (Mormonism), which his consultants advised against. Absolutely nothing about it stands out to me. But then he wasn't trying to win me over, was he?

The democrats mostly stayed off my radar this week. Well done, boys and girl.

And that's What Stood Out This Week.