Well, that’s true as far as it goes, but Newt might blame the Republican electorate rather than Mitt for that, because it was the Republican rank and file who applauded, and rewarded, all the stuff about 20-foot fences and automatic machine guns during the primaries. And maybe, just maybe, Newt could remember a page or two of his own demagoguery, about “Sharia” (“if the Democrats win, we’ll all have to have seven wives!”) and, most particularly, his repeated attacks on Mitt as a job-killing international financier, a riff invented by none other than that right-wing favorite, Teddy Kennedy, and gleefully picked up by the Obama campaign itself, to no little effect. It’s not surprising to hear Newt complain about unfair campaign attacks, since he complains about everything. But it is amusing.
As for Bob Woodward, Bob, it’s time to retire. It really is. I know you wrote a book saying Obama is a bad president, because he can’t “work his will” the way a president should. And now, Obama is working his will, and you’re pissed. You say it’s all about the sequester, but it isn’t about the sequester. It’s about Obama being the big man and you being a little man. You’re a little, old man, Bob, and your day is done, and it’s time to retire.
