I haven't written a blog in weeks and the politcal situation has totally changed. Newt is out and Rick Santorum is in. Can you believe this? Well, actually I can. I didn't think Republicans would be dumb enough to vote for Rick "Man-on-Dog-Sex" Santorum, but they just can't stand Mittens. Newt ran out of money and starting running off at the mouth about sugar subsidies and moon colonies, so his Las Vegas sugar daddy cut off the purse strings. That left Ricky as the only alternative to Mittens--I saw a post on the CNN website calling him Flipper the Elitist Robot, I like it. So Ricky won three states last week--Colorado, Missouri, Minnesota--while Mittens fumbled.
What's amazing is that anyone with a brain in their head would acutally think Santo Claus could beat Obama. The Prez would crush him like an ant. Evidently there is a school of thought among right-wingers that if they nominated a moderate they will lose, as they did with Dole and McCain. But Santorum is so far to the right it's absurd. He raises incredibly retro issues like women in combat, gay marriage, the dignity of being a housewife, and contraception--not just that Catholic-affiliated employers shouldn't be forced to cover it in their health plans, but that anybody should be able to deny it to women. My God! What is this, the 1950s? I can see objecting to abortion, but birth control??? And another thing, you know the tide is turning in our favor when Bill O'Reilly defends Ellen Degeneris against a group who wanted her fired from JC Penny for being gay. It's no longer mainstream to be homophobic, but Rick still thinks it is.
Mittens is in a fix now because he can't squash Ricky as he did Newtie. Both anti-Romneys are far-right extremists, but Ricky is an honest extremist. Newt is a lying, lobbying, adulterous, ethically challenged blowhard and Mittens could launch millions of negative ads against him and be perfectly justified and have them resonate. There is not as much ammunition to use against Santorum who actually believes everything he says. You may not like what he says--and I don't--but he's never changed positions as Mittens and Newtie have. I don't see Santorum getting the nomination, but it's telling that after all this the inevitable Romney is trailing in the polls behind him, even in Michigan, Romney's home state. Even after all this time, Mittens still can't get the base to like him.
No comments:
Post a Comment