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MassGOP Honors Mitt Romney

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Most peculiar event.  Here’s a guy who ran the party into the ground, abandoning the positions that helped him (and other Republicans) get elected in order to position himself to appeal to South Carolina GOP primary voters.  He recruited a bunch of mini-Mitts to run for office in 2004, and slimed mailboxes around the state with the most distasteful, negative political mail we’ve seen in a long time.  The party lost seats in the election, and Mitt lost interest in the state.

But Mitt is honored by the local party.  This is the kind of event designed to make Mitt look beloved while he is trying to get McCain to pick him to run for vice president.   My question:  How much did Mitt need to pay to get this award?

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  1. I hear the folks at Dems For Mitt only consider stories that are plausible.

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  2. Joining you in a trip to the alternative universe, I rode the Magic Quill over to PP’s premises.

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    • The evening began in fine patriotic form with Gov. Romney’s granddaughter leading the crowd in a salute to the flag. Note that they don’t sing the Star Spangled Banner because they can score more political points by emphasizing “under God” in the revised pledge.
    • [A comedian] proceeded to tell some highly incorrect and borderline regrettable jokes. Only at a Republican gathering …
    • Via video, McCain praises Romney’s, uh, versatility in getting out other people’s messages: “You may have noticed that we turn to Mitt for help in getting out our message on talk shows and in speeches – it’s hard enough defining your own point of view, but Gov. Romney is someone I can rely on and depend on.”
    • A very odd anecdote about a Boy Scout troop’s flag washing ashore after being blown up in the space shuttle Challenger. Touching said flag becomes a sort of mystical experience. Do I detect a theme of trying to endow patriotic symbols with quasi-religious significance?
    • Ambassador Bill Weld predicts that Mitt Romney will become president. Republicans certainly are good at predicting stuff these days!

    • My boyhood scout troop was one among many that sent things to NASA to fly on the shuttle in this way; like most, ours was not chosen.

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      p>I saw this flag at a jamboree in Philadelphia a  year or two later.  It left one with a sense of terrible awe, not unlike the feeling one gets when standing at Cemetary Ridge at Gettysburg, or viewing the sunken hulk of the USS Arizona, if only because we all watched what happened to Challenger, and somehow, impossibly, this flag was in nearly pristine condition.

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      p>A sense of awe and wonder at such things is neither religious nor quasi-religious, and does not warrant the tone taken here, even if discussed by Americans of differening political views.

  3. More folks from BMG should wander over to the other side.  Not only can we donate some DINOs to their cause, we can also provide some valuable assistance.

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    p>For example, there’s a candidate for State Representative named Steven Levy who is looking for volunteers to march with him in Sudbury’s Independence Day parade.

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    p>Couldn’t we help him out?  Don’t we know of some folks who just LOVE a parade?  Especially in a place like Sudbury?

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      • The only mention that he’s running against Eldridge is a link to “Metro West Daily News: Eldridge denies campaign finance misstep” in Mr. Levy’s Press Room.  

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        p>There’s no mention that he’s a Republican anywhere on his site.  He mentions that he’s “happily married” and that he’s a member of Citizens for Limited Taxation, but there’s no indication of party affiliation.  

    • There’s nothing like a bunch of witless, narcissistic buffoons to make Republicans look not-so-bad.

      • Porcupine, we are not saying the Republicans hate Mitt.  We are saying that he had such a destructive net effect on the Republican party in Massachusetts, the Democrats should be honoring him.

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        p>However, if we want to devise a series of reasons why 900 people would buy tickets to this event, perhaps we can develop a TOP TEN list.  Let’s start with…

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        p>Because Mitt bought the tickets?

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        p>Because 900 lobbyists, commissioners, political appointees, et. al. need to show proper gratitude (tribute?) for the largess they received?

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        p>Because the True Believers are blind to the destruction of their party during the Romney years?

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          p>10:  “No, that’s his real hair…”

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          p>9:   “And if he’s VP they’ll not only double Gitmo, they’ll open it for tourists. Sign me up!!”

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          p>8:  “No, I don’t know anybody serving in Iraq? You?”

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          p>7:  “Me neither.”

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          p>6:  “I don’t care who you think you are… you’re black aren’t you? So get me another drink!”

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          p>5:  “Here comes Romney, quick! Hide the dog!”

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          p>4: “Romney wants to be VP so bad, he went hunting with his lawyer… and shot him in the face!”

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          p>3: “So, you know how Deval was sworn in on the Mindi Bible…?  Yeah, well Mitt is going to be sworn in as VP on the Bain Capital Mission Statement. Ought to be very stirring.”

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          p>2:  “Wow… John McCain is old.”

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          p>And the number one thing overheard at the recent Republican Mitt-a-palooza:

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          p>1:  “Who’s this Weld fella?”

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