Q: What did John McCain say on "60 Minutes?"

A: It doesn't matter.

On the GOP side, it has become the "first names" campaign --Fred, Mitt, Newt and Rudy.  Senator McCain may hang around through Iowa and New Hampshire, but there's nothing as over as Christmas and a front-runner's campaign gone flat.

U.S. News sends this valentine to Mitt Romney:

What his adversaries don't seem to realize is that Romney has, in his typically methodical way, constructed a fundraising network like no other. It is based on seven pillars: fellow Mormons, a very cohesive and affluent constituency; fellow Harvard graduates who want to see him succeed; Michigan contributors who fondly recall his father (the state's former governor); admirers from the business world, where Romney made a fortune; associates from his successful stint as president and CEO of the Salt Lake City Olympic organizing committee; backers from Massachusetts; and traditional GOP donors he impressed as chairman of the Republican Governors' Association.

(HT: Politico.)

The report missed a couple of pillars, but you can add the folks suddenly aware that they aren't on the fast train, and who are rushing to MittRomney.com to get their ticket date-stamped.