It wasn’t so long ago that people were saying that Mitt wasn’t cool, but that was so five minutes ago. Rick seemed so cool, the new kid in school, with those bad, bad Texas accessories—the boots, the hat, the ‘tude! But the wheels came off, so fast! The cervical cancer thing, the be nice to illegals’ kids thing, plus all that talk about “military adventurism.” Hey, dude, we Republicans like military adventurism! If it wasn’t for military adventurism, we wouldn’t have no military adventures at all, and no need to spend like $750 billion a year on defense!
Mitt understands. He guarantees that we will spend more on defense every year, no matter what. Four percent! Okay, it’s not as good as 4.5, but we can negotiate on that. We have to spend that much, or we won’t be safe. I mean, America might be safe, but Republicans won’t be.
Afterwords
It’s a painful indication of poor Rick’s weakness that Chris Christie, who after all comes from a state that is right next to New York, which is almost as bad as being New York, can not only endorse Mitt Romney but then follow up by giving Rick’s “campaign” (not Rick but his campaign) a hard kick in the nuts for approving “controversial” (i.e., totally asinine) preacher Robert Jeffress to introduce Rick at the Values Voter Summit last week, which Rick surely wishes he hadn’t attended. Jeffress, unloading on the crowd with some southern-style bigotry, denounced Mormonism as a cult.
“These type of religious matters have nothing to do with the quality of somebody’s ability to lead,” Christie said, getting totally northeastern on Rick’s ass. “Any campaign that associates itself with that type of conduct is beneath the office of president of the United States.”
“Beneath”? Now that’s mean.
*Ramesh “explains” that movement conservatives shouldn’t feel bad about getting stuck with a candidate who, the last time he was elected to office, ran to the left of Ted Kennedy on social issues. Jennifer, who is usually all about the issues, or at least all about the issues that affect Israel, compliments Romney on his gamesmanship. Values? Oh, I don’t know. But the guy’s definitely a pro. Both sound like they want to be with a winner, and want to sell that winner to the recalcitrant masses.
