Forbes list is suspect, since they factor in "superfund" sites.
"Superfund" is code for "Don't Kill the Job", so few, if any, of these sites will ever be "clean".
Howie’s Wed. column (it wasn’t on the website before)
Another silver tarnishes Mitts campaign
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Another week, another $10 million.
Thats the way it goes for Mitt Romney these days. Every week or 10 days, hes in front of the best supporters money can buy, trying to put a shine on another very expensive sneaker. Last nights wake was in St. Petersburg, Fla., which used to be known as Gods waiting room.
The economy, he said, is in my DNA.
So, apparently, is finishing second.
All these weeks, all these silvers, Mitt has been trying to get it down to a one-on-one, with John McCain. Hes almost there. The only problem is, as the other candidates go by the wayside, theyre ganging up on him. Now Rudy Giuliani withdraws and gets ready to endorse John McCain today.
Four-on-one is Republican fun, unless youre Mitt.
The Romney people were trying to spin it last night that coming out of Florida the two candidates were numbers 1 and 1-A.
Number 1 got 57 delegates last night.
Number 1-A got zero.
Now its the end of January. Mitt has to file his fourth-quarter FEC report, revealing how much of his personal fortune he spent in the last three months of 2007. He was up to $17 million on Sept. 30. The over-under on Mitts personal expenditure in the fourth quarter: $18 million.
And Mike Huckabee, the Christian leader who never turns the other cheek to Romney, says in Missouri that hell continue to campaign in the snake-handling belt.
Were playing all nine innings of this ballgame, Huckabee said last night in St. Louis.
Hell drain just enough votes among the Hell-No-We-Aint-Fergettin crowd to keep the Straight Jacket Express rolling along. His job is to do to Mitt Romney in the Southern states what Fred Thompson did to him in South Carolina.
No wonder McCain blew Huckabee another wet kiss last night. Its like the Super Bowl quarterback buying rings for his offensive linemen.
Mitt just cant quite put it together. This was his big shot. He fumbled it away in Iowa and New Hampshire, but Michigan gave him another shot. If Mitt wins last night, McCains money dries up. Now every fat-cat in the GOP holds his nose and writes McCain a check. Mitt has to write another personal check for $10 million or $15 million.
But for what? Hes ahead here in Massachusetts, and in Colorado, and . . . that leaves 20 other states.
How many does he have a shot in? With no Giuliani, McCain becomes the prohibitive favorite in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut. He was already ahead in California and Arizona.
Mitt looked down last night. His lucky lumberjack shirt was gone, replaced by the traditional business suit. Not a hair of his full Reagan comb-back was out of place. Its gotta be driving him crazy, the way old man McCain keeps rope-a-doping him, getting outspent by Mitt 3- or 4- or 10-to-1, but still edging him even as the field of candidates contracts. John McCain, who was left for dead all those months ago, as the cliche goes.
You knew Mitt was having a bad night when he got a chant going with his crowd and the refrain was, They havent!
They havent, all right. Gotten their moneys worth, that is. The other candidates supporters chant Yes we can! and Mac is back! Mitts coatholders yell, They havent!
The worst thing is, John McCain is the Bob Dole of 2008, and everyone knows it. How come yesterday morning it was Gov. Crist of Florida doing the network liveshots, not Gramps McCain?
Poor Mitt. Hed better win the debate tonight in Simi Valley. Just wing it, forget the consultants. When it comes to delivering, they havent.
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