Spurring Romney

Credit for Mitt Romney's bracing VP pick goes in part to Mark Steyn and other conservative critics of Romney's heretofore vapid campaign. The latest of  "Mark's-never-to-be-missed-weekend-columns" (as former federal prosecutor, now estimable commentator Andrew McCarthy put it), likened Romney's campaign to, among other banalities, a Purina pet food commercial.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/313674/milquetoast-mitt-mark-steyn