Washington Post: The Trail Romney, he said with a big grin, " hasn't gotten a good return on his investment so far in this campaign." |
Hey, if other conservatives can belittle John McCain by singing the praise of Hillary Clinton, or spit on his war record the way mushroomheads in the '60s/'70s spat on soldiers returning from Vietnam, why can't I poke a little fun at Mitt Romney by quoting Barack Obama?
Speaking of using liberal perspectives to ridicule Republican presidential candidates, Michael Kinsley wrote a funny line about Romney a couple of days ago: "I remind me of Reagan."
Oh, c'mon...That was funny.
What?
I can't use liberal ammo the way you do (when you're bashing the Republican candidate of my choice) because I'm not a Real Conservative?
Um, okay...
Actually, I'm kinda glad you brought that up...
I think we need to talk...
I'm feeling a little...I don't know...I think I need some space...
Besides, I'm really not into that whole porn thing, or Christian bashing, or defending a Republican congressman who trolls the Internet for underage boys (and those who covered for him), or some of the other quirky peccadilloes that seal the bond between Real Conservatives, the Rulers of All Republicans.
Another problem we have? Our senses of humor. Totally, totally different.
Take, for instance, this exchange between Mitt Romney and Mark Riss during a debate in New Hampshire last September:
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MARK RISS: I don’t...I don't think you fully understand how offended my wife and I were - and probably the rest of the people who have sons, daughters, husbands and wives serving in the war on terror - to compare your son’s attempts to get you elected to my son’s service in Iraq. (Cheers, applause.) I..I...I know you apologized a couple days later and...and a firestorm started, but it was wrong, sir, and you never should have said it,
(YouTube video here...) (link not working - added video below)
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To this day, I have absolutely no idea what Mitt Romney thought was so funny about Mr. Riss' remarks.
Maybe if Mr. Romney was listening to the rants of Code Pink or a 9-11 truther, I could understand the smirk, but...
Another weird thing? I don't see much point in defending a top Romney aide accused of impersonating a law enforcement officer on the basis that he's just a poor, helpless civilian (pretending to be a law enforcement officer).
BOSTON: An ever-present aide to Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney took a leave of absence Friday after he became the subject of investigations in two states for allegedly impersonating a law enforcement officer... In 2004, Garrity was cited and fined by Massachusetts officials after a Ford Crown Victoria registered to him was found to have lights, a siren, radios and other law enforcement equipment — including a baton — after it was parked illegally in Boston's North End. At the time, Garrity was paid $75,000 (€55,799) annually as Romney's gubernatorial chief of operations. |
I guess what I'm trying to say is that, in my opinion, this is the kind of stuff that puts a big stink on Republicans...
But, hey, it's your party.
Anway, back to business at the Hogwarts School of Financial Wizardry...
Baltimore Sun: The Swamp That makes $35.35 million that the multimillionaire, former governor of Massachusetts has “loaned’’ himself in his bid for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination though the end of 2007 -- without a disclosure yet of how much more he has invested so far this year... Total receipts for the campaign to date: $90 million, according to the Romney campaign. And more than one-third of that came from the former head of Bain Capital who has campaigned as a guy who knows something about economics. |
What a contrast to the economics-challenged McCain, eh?, who pulled a stunning comeback on a shoestring budget.
Weird.
You know what else that's weird?
Securing the family luggage safely inside the family station wagon (with the family) during 12-hour (one-way) road trips while the family dog is caged and strapped to the family luggage rack atop the family station wagon.
Weird magical dog carrier, too. According to Mr. Romney, this is both an "airtight" and "fresh air" kennel. I guess that's why dogs never suffocate when locked in one for 12 hours at a time.
In one report on this story, Mr. Romney claimed to have built a windshield for the luggage rack to keep Seamus comfortable. Yes, Mr. Romney built and then welded a windshield to the luggage rack that would withstand the wind resistance encountered on top of a station wagon traveling at highway speeds. What's not to believe?
But as "airtight" as this "fresh air" dog carrier was, don't be thinkin' it was diarrhea-tight.
All Headline News Romney told the Boston Globe that he remained cool under the trying circumstances, quickly exited the highway, pulled into a service station and used a water hose to rinse the car free of what turned out to be diarrhea from the stressed out dog on the roof. He then thought to blast Seamus with some water to clean the diarrhea off him before pulling back onto the highway and continuing the trip to Canada with the dog still lashed to the station wagon's roof. |
That blast of cold water (and puddling inside the carrier) must have done wonders for Seamus' Happy Diarrhea once the station wagon resumed highway speeds.
Even Tammy Bruce thought this whole story was weird...At the time, anyway...
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And all Romney can come up with is that his dog "likes fresh air." So much so it apparently scares the s*** out of him. Talk about patronizing and stupid. Yeah, let's install this guy in the White House.
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Mark Levin, where are you?
(I guess these two are just holding their noses, trying to make the best of animal cruelty).
You want to know what's really, really weird? This story wasn't dug up by some reporter or Democratic operative. Romney actually volunteered this story to the Boston Globe as an example of his "emotion-free" crisis management skills.
Amazing as it is weird as it is clueless.
So what ever happened to Seamus (since passed), the dog so beloved by the Romneys?
Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace (Video) He was in a kennel at home a great deal of time as well... We loved the dog. It was where he was comfortable. And we had five kids inside the car. My guess is he liked it a lot better in his kennel than he would have liked it inside... And he was a good friend of the family. We love our pets...
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Take a guess.
Boston Globe So a few years after Seamus's ride to Canada, Mitt sent Seamus to live for a time with (Mitt's sister) Jane and her family in California. "We had more space, so he could roam more freely," she says... She says he was such a social dog that he often left Mitt Romney's Belmont home to visit his "dog friends" around town. "He kept ending up at the pound," she says. "They were worried about him getting hit crossing the street." |
At least he was a few thousand miles away from the Mitt.
Can you imagine Ronald Reagan cozying up to this guy?
Rachel Marsden Ronald Reagan had an incredible respect for animals. His four-legged companions at the ranch included dogs, cattle, and horses. When they died, he would take them himself to be buried in a little hilltop cemetery that he had created especially for them on the ranch. He would carve each one of them a special headstone. He wanted each of them to be remembered. |
Or T. Boone Pickens, friend and supporter of Ronald Reagan (who, incidentally, donated ten million dollars to the Air Force One Pavilion at the Reagan Library in which the most recent Republican debate was held) and a supporter of the Giuliani campaign?
Time Texas oilman and rancher T. Boone Pickens grabbed a lot of sympathetic headlines after Hurricane Katrina by airlifting 800 abandoned dogs and cats out of the storm zone. The Texas oilman, 78, hopes his wife's passion for saving horses turns out as well as her push to get animals out of New Orleans after Katrina. Of the 800 animals airlifted out after the storm, he says over 70% have since been reunited with their owners. If he had been told to leave his dog, Murdock, behind in the storm waters, says Pickens, "I'd yell at them to pitch me an inner tube, and I'd take my chances with Murdock." Is this is a kinder, gentler Pickens than we're used to seeing? He laughs and says, "That side has always been there. Just unrecognized by some people." |
(No wonder Nancy Reagan supports McCain. Too bad that as a former First Lady she can't come out and endorse him publicly).
But the weirdness never quite stopped for poor Seamus. It followed him all the way to Romney, California, a place where even male dogs can nurse kittens.
 Seamus in California. |
It's like the bullsh*t never stops.
Well, I'm about as weirded out as I care to be for the evening, so farewell, Real Conservatives.
Sorry things didn't work out between us.
But now that you've streamlined the Republican party by chasing out all of us riffraff, you're poised to go balls-out in 2012.
Good luck with that.