New York magazine’s Margaret Hartmann gets my cheer of the week for noting the resurgence of “Mittmentum” as my man Mitt makes it known that he’s unimpressed by the emerging Republican field for 2016, something that he’s been doing on a monthly basis since last summer. Back then, Mitt allowed as how he might run if Jeb Bush didn’t. Now Mitt’s saying that, gee, that Jeb is a swell guy, but, you know, he has all these problems. The press might label him an arrogant, out-of-touch multi-millionaire, and look at all the grief that caused me!
As Maggie notes, if Jeb has Mitt-like problems, where does that leave the Mittman himself? I guess Mitt thinks he has the answer, and I for one would love to hear it.
Afterwords
This piece should really be called “Annie Lowrey, Annie Lowrey!”, because it appears that it was Annie who coined the term “Mittmentum”, way back in August. (If she didn’t, well, a clever theft is almost as good as a clever coinage.) But, in honor of the remaining dozen folks who remember a tedious, pseudo-hip seventies TV show called “Mary Hartmann, Mary Hartmann!”, I won’t make the change.
