In what is just terribly shocking news, yet another politician is climbing on their "video games are eating the youth of America!" platform to curry favor for the 2008 presidential race. In this case, it's former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, speaking at Regent University, a Virginia university I'd never heard of before reading the GamePolitics & Washington Post articles, despite living in the state for 20-some odd years. What sparkling insights does he have to impart to us?

Pornography and violence poison our music and movies and TV and video games. The Virginia Tech shooter, like the Columbine shooters before him, had drunk from this cesspool.

What's that famous Cicero quote? "O the times! O the customs!" First it was lascivious lyric poetry, then it was jazz, after that Elvis and the Beatles - what's after video games? Keep your eye on GamePolitics to see who else gets on their shaky-yet-vote-getting soapbox. As for me, I'm off to wallow in my poisonous pornographic cesspool and play some Harvest Moon. Maggie Greene

Prez Candidate Romney: Violent Video Games in Cultural Cesspool [GamePolitics]