Mitt Romney's Almost-VP Pick Busted For Supplements

Two little white pills hoping to fool the nation into feeling better about racism

Well, this couldn't be more poetic, since Mitt Romney is also the poster boy for the oh-so-patriotic endeavour of selling-worthless-vitamins-to-Americans scam:

"What must be most painful for [indicted Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and first lady Maureen McDonnell] right now is the knowledge of how completely avoidable this was. There’s nothing even approaching honor or pride in these transgressions. There’s no crime here that you can convince yourself was the right call as a statesman; you can’t even say, in some sort of Nixonian way, all I had in mind, the whole time, was the good of the people of Virginia. There’s nothing like that here, unless you think that Virginians really needed the dietary supplement Anatabloc in order to live long and prosper,…"

Oh, some do, some do but - while the McDonnells are going to prison for it - the Republican's Number One Guy is all too ready to mislead and oblige. That's what his supporters call success: 

Because, as we all know, he - like most Mormons - only attempt these scams because they care about America so very, very much,...