Ana Marie Cox (ex- of Wonkette, now has a real job with Time) documents ten gaffes by Our Ex-Guv. They go from merely pandering (Mitt’s laughable assertion that he’s “been a hunter pretty much my whole life”) to the barbaric (“Double Gitmo”).
But what mostly sticks with you is the flat-out weirdness of some of them: Claiming French marriages are up in seven years? (Is that a 7/23 marriage, like a mortgage — faithful for seven years, “adjustable” after?) And while we’re not on the subject, how about the non-sequitur of “First, not France” as a slogan; I have little doubt that the GOP diehards don’t like France, but is it really at the top of their minds? And then the crushingly misinformed mouthing of a Castro slogan before a Cuban expat audience?
It’s just so … odd. Romney sounds like an alien from outer space trying his best to pass as a Presidential contender … He just doesn’t quite get it. Battlefield Earth, indeed.
…either for a fixed (renewable) term or for life came from, but Robert A. Heinlein certainly used it in his 1950s SciFi novel The Puppet Masters.
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Romney had best not get into the subject of marriages. In the US 50% of all marriages are kaputt after 15 years.
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NB: Lest anyone misunderstand, I am not referring to the percentage of divorces vs. the percentage of marriages in any one year. I’ve actually seen original research on the matter, and I use the 15 year time frame intentionally.
apparently. The man knows his pulpy sci-fi.
Have things changed since the 1960s?
Is Mitt trying to redirect all the red state anger from amoral latte-sipping east coast liberals (sometimes specifically from Massachusetts) to someplace safely outside the state where he earned his most recent relevant executive experience?
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The simplicity of it is saddening. “France is bad, Hillary is French — Actually Hillary is too French for France”.
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Mitt, thanks for clearly delineating the differences in your policy positions.
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Does the fact that Mitt is leading the polls and fundraising for Republican candidates mean that he is the heir apparent to Bush and his political favor machine?