Mitt Romney, today:

“I believe in the Second Amendment, I’ll protect the Second Amendment, I have guns myself. Not going to tell you where they are. Don’t have them on myself either, alright.”

Mitt Romney, 2007:

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You know how outraged we all were to learn that homofascists had highjacked Rick Santorum’s own name so that when you googled it you came up with some juvenile nonsense about buttsecks? Remember?

Well, in a move totally not coordinated with the Republican Primate Race, Google has – ahem – amended its algorithm so that spreadingsantorum.com is no longer the top hit. We can all breathe a collective sigh of relief. Except that…

what comes up now is WORSE!

I blame Dan Savage.

Rick Santorum reveals his battered collegehood: “There are schools, I went to one — Penn State — that’s one of the liberal icons, unfortunately it’s gotten a lot worse. I can tell you professor after professor who docked my grades because of the viewpoints I expressed and the papers that I wrote, there’s no question that happened.” [Philly.com, via @KeithOlbermann]

Our guest columnist is the American Family Association’s “One Million Moms”, suggesting text for your Outraged Email to Toys ‘R’ Us.

As a mother and a member of OneMillionMoms.com, I am extremely disappointed to learn that select Toys ‘R’ Us stores are now selling ‘Archie’ comic books with a same-sex wedding displayed on the front cover. I am referring to the ones where the front cover reads “Just Married” with two men marrying, one wearing a service uniform.

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We had never heard of a Seventies Superman TV musical, and as a child of the Seventies, we doubted the veracity of this clip — until we saw Sixties Batman villain David Wayne show up as Not Lex Luthor. Poking around, we learned that it started on Broadway in 1966 — originally directed by Hal Prince, with music by Annie’s Charles Strouse. Maybe everybody owes Julie Taymor an apology.

[via Comics Alliance]

The Michigan State Tree is the Eastern White Pine. Its needles are three to five inches long, with five blue-green, slender needles per fascicle. A fascicle sheath is not present. Needles appear blue because of three or more lines of stomata. Its flower is Monoecious. Males are cylindrical, yellow, in clusters near branch tips; females are light green, tinged in red, at ends of branches. Cones are four to seven inches long, cylindrical, with thin, rounded cone scales, very resinous. It grows from 150 to 190 feet high. We hope you enjoy our GOP Primary Open Thread/Lumberjack Festival. Thank you.

So in case you haven’t heard, ol Mitt Romney is in a bit of a tizzy over what’s happening in Michigan. As Nate Silver has noted, polls that until recently seemed to suggest that Romney would likely carry his home state have swung suddenly and violently in the direction of his principal rival for the GOP nomination, and now the race between Romney and Rick Santorum is too close to call.

A frustrating development for Romney, moreover, is a sudden bout of Democratic enthusiasm for his opponent, with the Santorum Campaign and UAW officials hoping to mobilize a large Union turnout in favor of the onetime Senator from Pennsylvannia and present day candidate for Pope of America. The Romney campaign is alleging that this mob of temporary turncoats is little more than a dirty trick designed to weaken Romney and ensure that the least electable GOP candidate gets the Republican nomination:

“It’s outrageous to see Rick Santorum team up with the Obama people and go out after union labor in Detroit and try and get them to vote against me,” Mr. Romney said.

Is it a dirty trick, as Romney alleges?

Maybe, maybe not. OK, probably. But before vociferously accusing his opponents of dirty tricks, Mittens might want to re-visit an interview he gave to ABC News back in 2007:

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