The buzz is growing into a crescendo that John McCain will choose Mitt Romney as his running mate. Even Co-Ed Magazine, a T&A website, has gotten into the act, quoting a source "closely connected" to the campaign predicting Mitt is the Man. (While you're at Co-Ed, you might as well check out The Babes of Wimbledon.)

The editors of Co-Ed explain:

“How the hell did the publisher of the ‘Top 20 Side-Boobs of All Time‘ get this scoop,” you must be asking yourself, right now. (We were asking ourselves the same question.) And here’s the answer: It’s all part of the McCain campaign’s plan to directly target college-age voters, in an attempt to sway them away from Sen. Obama, says our source.

Most pundits say McCain needs Mitt's money raising abilities. But Chris Kelly at the Huffington Post, finds another reason Mitt would be a good choice for aging McCain:

The Mormons did such a nice job taking care of Howard Hughes during his decline. So there's that.

(Hughes certainly appreciated their care. When he died, he left an eighth of his estate to his key Mormon aides, a sixteenth to a Mormon drifter, and another sixteenth directly to the Latter-day Saints, a church he never attended.)

With all this guy hugging going on between McCain and Mitt, it might be a good time to review their cuddily relationship.

Way, way, way back in May, McCain reminded America of Romney’s bogus statements on his hunting heritage, suggesting Mitt's solution to illegal immigration would be . . .

. . .to get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his lawn.

A Romney aide fired back:

That’s what happens to a guy of McCain’s age when he doesn’t take his Metamucil. I don’t think he is the kind of angry fellow we want to let alone with the nuclear arsenal.

To which a McCain aide responded:

It was a joke and, by the way, Mitt Romney should be mocked! There isn’t a single issue in politics he hasn’t flip-flopped on. Maybe it works in the takeover world, but not in this one. And, by the way, if John is angry, so are the American people. They are fed up with politics as usual.

To which the Romney mouthpiece re-responded:

I honor McCain’s service, but I think people are starting to feel a sorry for him. It is gold-watch time. That’s fatal in politics.

Ha. Ha. Just like Butch and the Sundance Kid.