Virginia Virtucon

Newsbusters latches on to what we’ve already been saying about Sen. Thinskin Gump (D-WashPo) / Beavis:

As political rituals go, the phony denial of interest in the VP nomination is among the most annoying. So credit Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee for unequivocally stating their willingness to serve as McCain’s running mate.

But please, politicians out there, spare us the feeble non-denial denials such as the one Jim Webb offered up on today’s Morning Joe. Isn’t Webb supposed to be Mr. No-Nonsense Macho Man? After all, he was on the show to tout his new book, A Time to Fight, and to talk up his rough ‘n tumble Scots-Irish roots. But judging by his wimpy response to the Veep question, perhaps the book should be renamed A Time to Fumfer. His reply to Mika Brzezinski’s question on his interest in the Veep nomination has to go down as one of the lamest of an already-lame genre.

Of course if he keeps up this sort of stuff, he can kiss it goodbye all on his own.

The U.S. Senate — So easy, even a thinskinned no-talent hack writer with the intelligence of Forrest Gump (but none of the integrity) elected solely by the Washington Post can do it.