When it rains it pours, eh? Yesterday I said the all-Republican pissing contest reported on Sunday in Politico was a momentary pleasure, but Romney’s new “Midnight in Boca” tape has turned pints into gallons. Romney’s pretending that he’s standing by his remarks, despite their lack of elegance, though of course he’s pretending that he didn’t say what he said but rather something else, because what he said was that 47% of the population are worthless slackers. Over at the totally not my favorite publication Weekly Standard, Michael Warren collects conservative commentary that explicates exactly why Romney’s comments were so stupid and so wrong, while mostly pretending to ignore the fact that Romney said exactly what Rush Limbaugh’s ditto heads believe. Meanwhile Politico, doing what it does best—piling on—collects conservative consternation at Romney’s continued ineptness—the continued ineptness of the guy who ran away from the pack in the Republican primary, and deservedly so, considering the gang of way not ready for primetime goofballs and plug-uglies he was up against.
Probably the bottom line in all this is that rich guys are assholes who think that God gave them their money and blame all the world’s problems on the poor. In the wake of the Wall Street crash, Michael Bloomberg, one of the very richest men in the world and presumably pretty smart, publicly endorsed the “theory” that the whole mess was caused by the federal government forcing banks to give loans to poor people. Because let’s face it, guys: the poor are poor because they deserve to be poor. It’s God’s judgment! Stop wasting my tax money on these losers!
