Category: Mitt Romney

Dept of self-parody:

The campaign’s latest tech marketing ploy is to have supporters personalize fund-raising robocalls using Romney’s voice.

Call your friends! In Romney’s voice. Give them nightmares.

Watching him get poorer and less popular has its charms.

Jim Talent says Romney has been consistent with respect to homosexual rights over the years. I like the idea of "militant." You’re "militant" if you want to commit to another human being and be included as an equal in your own family. I think what Talent means is that it’s ok to be gay as long as you are ashamed. Sorry, Jim. Those days are over. For ever.

A reader comments on this weirder-than-usual Romney quote:

Romney’s optimism is indeed loopy, but I am not sure how "super-Mormon" it is.  After all, Mormons believe that God handed a new revelation to Joseph Smith less than two centuries ago. What does Romney think is going to happen in the next ten years that would match that?

Heh:

America’s first clip-art presidential candidate, Romney is a strange mixture of game show host looks and android charm. A true flip-flopper, Romney’s ability to turn on an ideological dime is unparalleled, but his excuses are so inauthentic that even Republicans have trouble suspending their disbelief.

But he got off easily compared to some in the cross-hairs of the Buffalo Beast:

Bears the burlesque Cheshire grin of a sophist born with a large silver spoon jammed sideways in his mouth. A second generation neocon raised in the tradition of Straussian perception management and myth creation, Bill Kristol is basically lying about everything — always — and he knows it…  Seems to have suffered no ill impact to his career or prestige despite having been completely wrong about everything to do with Iraq and Iran, and actually laughs about it with obnoxious frequency.

Clinton and Pelosi don’t fare much better.

(Hat tip: Jason.)

Larison finds it "bizarre."

A brilliant column. Money quote:

The leaders of the Republican coalition know Romney will lose. But some would rather remain in control of a party that loses than lose control of a party that wins. Others haven’t yet suffered the agony of defeat, and so are not yet emotionally ready for the trauma of transformation. Others still simply don’t know which way to turn.

He’s an empty vessel, a device not a candidate. McCain is now easily the most viable national candidate for the GOP. He’s this year’s version of John Kerry in 2004 – the guy you marry after you’ve dated everyone else.

A classic South Carolina tactic: this time deployed against Romney.

Romney and Clinton have the highest level of hostility among the leading candidates. Obama and McCain the least. On this, at least, I know how most people feel.