Political bits

On CNN they interviewed a "man on the street" who described blind mail Iowans were receiving attacking Romney's Mormonism.

(WaPo) An interesting bit on a nobody who assembled a 71 million item email list of "conservatives" built off the "Passion of the Christ" fervor in 2004. He's pimping Huckabee. (largest political database in the country?)

(ThinkProgress) Brigadier General Thomas W. Hartmann, the legal adviser at Guantanamo Bay, repeatedly refused to answer when Lindsey Graham asked if the Iranians waterboarding a US soldier was torture.

(WaPo) Feith tries to blame Iraq on Bremer.

(CNN) Fred Thompson abandons New Hampshire.

(Politico) Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) introduces a resolution praising Christians and Christmas.

And, (Politico) After having a complaint filed against them for using their church for illegal political purposes, "the Rev. Wiley S. Drake, of the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, Calif.,... urg(ed) followers to pray for the deaths of Barry W. Lynn, Joe Conn and Jeremy Leaming, the Americans United officials who filed the IRS complaint.