There’s an amusing piece about Multiple Choice Mitt in the NYT that dishes some behind-the-scenes dirt about the other Clown Car occupants’ ill will toward the empty-suit former Massachusetts governor. The common sentiment in the GOP crowd that Mitt: 1) has too much money to throw around while others, like McCain and Huck have to scramble to raise cash; 2) he can pay for a lot of distasteful attack ads; and 3) he’s a general sleazeball without convictions.
Some of the fun tidbits:
* “Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.”
– John McCain in New Hampshire when reporters asked him about Mr. Romney.
* “What I have to do is make sure that my anger with a guy like Romney, whose teeth I want to knock out, doesn’t get in the way of my thought process.”
– Mike Huckabee campaign chairman, Ed Rollins
In stark contrast to Mr. Romney, Mr. McCain seems to be universally liked and respected by the other Republican contenders, even if they disagree with him.I guess Huck’s filling out an “early application” for the job of McCain’s running mate. Not. Going. To. Happen.Mr. Schnur used a schoolyard analogy to compare Mr. Romney, the ever-proper Harvard Law School and Business School graduate, to Mr. McCain, the gregarious rebel who racked up demerits and friends at the Naval Academy.
“John McCain and his friends used to beat up Mitt Romney at recess,” Mr. Schnur said.
…Mr. McCain also seems to have fallen into a mutual nonaggression pact with Mr. Huckabee, who has been almost fawning in his compliments for Mr. McCain and dripping with contempt when discussing Mr. Romney.
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Pam - Why not? It’d shore up some of McCain’s problems with the Christian Right and drag the ticket to a more moderate look on certain issues to certain weak-headed voters.
I don’t think it’ll happen, but it makes for good personal fictions in both camps while they try to eliminate persona non grata cum opes.
While its so easy to dump on Romney, I think Romney is a much more beatable candidate than McCain-which at this stage is all I’m concerned about.
Really? More of those fucking useless and idiotic schoolyard analogies? Is there any way we could get a moratorium on that shit for the duration?
Please???
he’s an ill-tempered prick, wrapped up in shiny ‘polite mormon’ clothing.
he reminds me of that 1980s tv mini-series ‘V’ in which an alien species comes to earth to ask for assistance (can’t remember what they needed - i think it was water). the aliens are beautiful and benevolent on the outside, but peel back their skin (literally) and you find big hulking reptiles that snack on hamsters and plan on enslaving all of the people of earth (and having them for dinner, too). that’s romney.
BTW, Mitt, the great white…hopeless has to be one of the best post titles ever!
“Really? More of those fucking useless and idiotic schoolyard analogies? Is there any way we could get a moratorium on that shit for the duration?”
Who pissed in your coffee? And what difference does it make to you what Pam chooses to use as an analogy?…
“I guess Huck’s filling out an “early application” for the job of McCain’s running mate. Not. Going. To. Happen.”
I can’t decide if the Rethugs are going to purposely lose this election in order to set themselves up for 2012 (having booby-trapped the office for the next POTUS), or if they want the primaries to go so badly they end up with a brokered convention. Or both.
And don’t count out the possibility of a Huckster VP slot. They are just crazy enough to do it…
I was a subject of Your Royal Highness’s governorship, and I strenuously urge you not to vote for him.
Indeed. Most of us move beyond the “my dad can beat up your dad” thing well before we reach voting age.I’m in the middle of JR Ward’s fantastic Black Dagger Brotherhood vampire series. This guy sounds just like one of the mafiosi vamps.
Living so close to Cambridge, any time I’m on Harvard campus I find myself wondering how many of these bright students are future Republican dickheads.
Kristen; That is a great analogy! I remember the series for Jane Badler as the gorgeous alien leader Diana and Robert Englund in a much nicer role than those he normally plays. Oh yeah, and Michael Ironside as a crazy right-wing resistance fighter.
On a similar note (since this is the closest recent thread to the topic,) what do you all think about Kucinich dropping?
Of course he never had a chance, but he’s seen as an ideal candidate on paper by many on here, kos, etc. I’ve got mixed feelings; I’ve heard a lot (I wasn’t born yet) about his mismanagement of Cleveland as mayor, coming from liberals and moderates as well as conservatives. He’s been a good representative on the national level in terms of the war, but not so much in specifically the needs of Cleveland.
We want Mitt to win the Republican nod! He polls the worst against either Hillary or Barak.
I hate these kind of popularity contest things so much, it makes me want Romney to win the Repugs nomination.
Well, here’s a slightly OT though somewhat related announcement, dear Pandagonians:
Due to a long series of unfortunate events, which in the end merely drew my attention to how unsustainable my life has been these past 3 years, I’m moving to the one place in the world I can live without paying rent (or anyway probably not too much of it): my parents’ home in Sparks, Nevada.
The relevant part is this: I’ll be here in California for the primary early next month (just a couple weeks from now, in fact) and will vote for either Edwards if he is still in the running or Obama otherwise. Nevada already had its caucuses. So my next vote after that will be in November, when I expect to still be in Nevada.
And so I personally hope that Romney wouldn’t be the R nominee at that point, because I figure no amount of campaigning for any Democrat would put them over the top against Mormon “favorite son” Romney in that highly LDS state.
But of course what I want is for the R to lose, whoever that may be, and if Romney is really the surest to lose overall, so be it.
However I’m not convinced that any Republican, no matter how plainly foolish, unprincipled, ugly, or criminal, is guaranteed to lose. Not at any rate if we assume there will be some unchecked shenanigans, as I imagine there surely will be.
Anyway I hope that in the long run a guy like me can do more good in a place like northern Nevada than around here on the Granola Coast, where I am pretty much a third wheel.
Fellow UU people, y’all know the hymn “We’ll Build a Land,” right?
It was running through my head about 2 weeks ago, as I was contemplating and making my peace with this relocation plan of mine. Which is a sure thing now that my landlord has found a new tenant for March.
Not sure people like me can swing Nevada no matter who the lineup is or how hard we work at it. But don’t count out Nevada Dems and progressives; I found a surprisingly high level of sympathy for the Kerry campaign in Nov ‘04 when I went there to help it, and I also found Diebold machines counting the votes.
Well, it’s just one percent of the vote anyway. I never see any percentage in trying to influence the Republican vote; if Dems cannot convey that they stand for something different and better across the board, then there is no particular reason to expect their victories to make much difference. I’ve always been convinced that even the worst Dems (who can be pretty godawful) are an improvement over their Republican rivals, at least during my lifetime. And at the end of the day I think most Americans at least see a difference though obviously they don’t always agree as to its direction.
Thank you for condescending to me. I also understand bowling metaphors.