Mitt's the Man

    Forget about ridiculous crap like whether Candidate A dodged the draft 40 years ago or whether Candidate B is a Mormon or whether Candidate C has been divorced and remarried or whether Candidate D smoked pot in Middle School in the 1960s or whether Candidate E changed his position on abortion rights or whether Candidate F was brain-washed into adopting a Chinese child.
    There is but one overriding consideration when selecting a Republican candidate from the six-man sampler box ─ Can he defeat the current Jackass in Chief.
    In that regard, Mitt Romney easily comes out on top. He’s the country’s best hope for getting rid of the weak, lazy, stupid, immature, irresponsible, asshole who currently naps in the White House between vacations, parties, golf dates, and fund raisers.
    Here’s a snapshot of the five non-Romneys in the race:

● Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum: All three are lightweights whose time is either past (Perry), never was (Huntsman) or is yet to be (Santorum). Each would face a daunting uphill battle in a contest against well-funded Hollywood-hero and media-darling Obama.

Newt Gingrich: The former Speaker of the House of Representatives carries a steamer trunk of baggage on his back from his many years as a political lightening rod for the know-nothing left. A decent and intelligent man, an experienced politician, he would nevertheless be savaged by the mass media and the Letterman-SNL-Stephen Colbert axis of pseudo-wits. As a result he would be confronted with the impossible task of refuting an endless sequence of attacks and innuendoes ─ some based on reality, most fabricated ─ against his outspoken persona and his unavoidably long record of policy stances..

Ron Paul: This elderly, soft-spoken chap amounts to an anti-matter version of Howard Dean ─ a would-be man on horseback with a hard-core constituency of Jew haters, racists, and right-wing fellow travelers that do not understand how easy it is to trash past policies, but how difficult it is to come up with coherent alternatives. With every imaginable special interest group unalterably opposed to him ─ Blacks, Homosexuals, Pro-Lifers, Jews, Big City Intelligentsia, Hispanics, Unions, Teachers, Activist Students ─ Paul would be crushed just as poor Barry Goldwater ─ a far better man ─ was crushed in  1964 by Lyndon Johnson.

    In a normal election cycle it might make sense to judge candidates on the basis of their stands on various more or less significant issues of the day ─ the size of the military, the national debt, social security reform, health care reform, abortion rights, gay rights, job creation, tax reform, and so on.
    In the upcoming general election these concerns fade into inconsequence when stacked up against the one great concern ─ getting rid of Barack Obama ─ a man disastrously unfit for the job that a feckless electorate voted him into three years ago, a man who is, without doubt, the most Incompetent chief executive in the country’s history (and with Jimmy Carter still fresh in memory, that’s quite an achievement).
    So "Issues" be damned.
    Issues emerge on the Eastern horizon like vast images out of Spiritus Mundi only to melt and vanish a year or two later like the snows of yesteryear. On the long Interstate Highway of history, the seemingly burning questions of today will become nothing more than footnotes that no one reads in some pedant’s college text gathering dust in the stacks of the New York Public Library.
    Remember the Alamo? You mean the auto rental agency? How about the Maine? The main what?
    Nobody gives a shit anymore about Santa Ana and Davy Crockett and William Randoph Hearst, about whether we’re going to "Crucify mankind upon a cross of gold," about "54-40 or Fight," about School Busing, about "Manifest Destiny," about "Seward’s Folly," about the Missouri Compromise, about the Smoot-Hawley Act, about César Chavez and his table grapes.
    This is not an election about issues ─ Should we attack Iran? Should we pull out of Afghanistan? Should Roe vs. Wade be overturned? Should Gays get Married? Should we repeal Obamacare?
    It is an election about getting rid of an utterly Incompetent chief executive and replacing him with a man with strength, an open mind, a moral compass, and, above all, Competence..
    Mitt Romney, by his demeanor, his personality, his track record in business and government, and his performance in the furnace of TV debates, has shown that he meets these criteria.

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    Will Mitt be an exciting president?
    God, I hope not.
    Will he drastically alter the status quo, set the nation on dramatic new paths, establish American suzerainty over the nations of the world, eliminate income differentials, resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict, rehabilitate Charlie Sheen, end unemployment, cut taxes, balance the budget, cure cancer, rein in Communist China, make us energy independent, eliminate greenhouse gases, resuscitate the housing industry, bring universal peace to the world, reform the United Nations, solve the immigration problem, win the war on drugs, make Mexico the 51st state?
    Afraid not.
    Such accomplishments are the preserve of charismatic shamans and mystical wonder workers, of glittering godlings, of the Kwisatz Haderach (Barack Obama) and his consort, the Bene Gesserit Mother (Michelle), mistress of the weirding ways.

* * *

    So what’ll it be America?
    Four more years of proxy government controlled by the string-pullers of a marionette president?
    Or a return to government based on the boring realities of pragmatism, common sense, good management, and competence?

Norm Mack, Peterborough, dog@myfairpoint.net

 

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  • 1/20/2012 9:35 AM Nun wrote:
    I would LOVE to see Newt in a one on one non-telepromted debate with Obama. If Newt somehow gets the nomination, he will go in way behind the "Jackass-in-Chief", then surge in popularity after the thrashing. Romney?... Meh
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