Mitt Romney tells a joke:
“I saw a young man over there with the eggs benedict,” says Romney. “He had the eggs benedict with a hollandaise sauce and the eggs, there. And I was going to suggest to you that you serve your eggs with hollandaise sauce and hubcaps. Because there’s no place like chrome for the hollandaise!” (thanks, pretty much, to Dave Weigel at Slate for this one)
I’m hoping that the Republican base won’t elect a Mormon who tells jokes about eggs Benedict and Hollandaise sauce, but I may be wrong. So far, this election is not about Main Street and all about Wall Street, and Main Street Republicans don’t even seem to care. It’s becoming blindingly obvious that President Obama chose Tim Geithner to be Secretary of Treasury to guarantee to Wall Street that they would always come first, a promise has done his damnedest to keep. But now comes Mitt, promising to be Obama plus no taxes, no Elizabeth Warren, and no Dodd-Frank! How’s the Street going to react to that one?
It would be tempting, sort of, to see Romney come in. Republicans, unlike Democrats, don’t have to kiss the military’s ass. Iraq will be pretty much over in a year, if you don’t count the 25,000-50,000 bad-ass mercenaries skulking in the shadows—mercenaries that I suspect the Iraqis will get tired of real soon, and I’m also guessing that Mitt would drop the war in Afghanistan like a hot potato.
The thing is, I could be wrong. George W. basically ran as Clinton without the penis and look what we got.
Afterwords
What about health care? Republicans seem to have forgotten how much they loved RyanCare, which is now so ten minutes ago. And how is Romney going to get rid of ObamaCare, when he invented it?
