Okay, that headline, even though it does reflect the content below, basically was designed to induce a “WTF?” and draw you in. I have something I really needs must share with you few, you brave, you guys who wandered in here thinking it was a nutrition site.
This is the response of an old college pal of mine when I suggested in an email IO entitled “Harbingers” that smart pols like Bloomberg and Christie would not be endorsing and/or effusively praising Barack Obama if they did not think he was going to be re-elected on Tuesday:
Guys like Christie and Bloomberg are smart. They know that the Prez is a petty, vindictive narcissist. They had damn well better be on his good side. Or else. So they are. End of story. To me, it looks like a Romney landslide. (I am the only one predicting this, of course, so I may be way off, but that is how I see it shaping up.)
Okay, the basic response is amusing enough, that of someone clearly trying to counter the obvious as best he could, and the “landslide” thing is just insane. But the real kicker here is that this is the guy I have mentioned in the past who once emailed me that his “political heroes are Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich and George W. Bush.”
Think about it. A guy who was all hot and bothered and awed the wonders that wee Newt and Dubya accusing someone of being “petty,” “vindictive” and a “narcissist.”
Those two guys are the poster children for those descriptions.
To be fair, my friend is not alone in his support of The Mittster…
I can’t say I’m surprised. Much of the Right seems to be as immune to irony as it is to objective fact.
I’ve seen that video passed around. Again, not surprising. These are self-selected hard-line Romney supporters, and the interviews are cherry-picked. I’m sure they didn’t have much trouble finding people who just take whatever the Right spoon feeds them without really thinking about it.
That said, there’s another video by the same people with more, if you’re interested. And it does end on a somewhat better note:
Love the old lady in the middle – he’s a Muslim AND an atheist, he’s all THREE!
I just read your Facebook post about PA starting to get political ads and calls, and thought I’d let you know – during the time it took me to watch the video above, I received (recorded) calls from Bill Clinton and “Susan from the RNC”. I wish I could say that was unusual, but no.
And the campaigns can apparently get lists of names who apply for absentee ballots, because we’ve gotten numerous calls urging my son to get his ballot in on time.
I checked out CNN today, and just about fell over dead – headline attached to a video, “Newt Gingrich: ‘I was wrong.’” How could the Smartest Man in the Republican Party possibly have been wrong?
http://tinyurl.com/cr3wu4y
I was taken aback myself, but then another question came to mind: when were you ever right?
I’m no fan of the Newt, but at least he had the balls and awareness to say that; haven’t heard that from any others, and then there’s this:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/06/romney-ive-only-written-a-victory-speech/comment-page-1/#comments
Really?