Romney and the Republicans

IS IT NOVEMBER YET?  I'm getting embarrassed watching Mitt Romney go through this process like a cinder block that thinks it can swim. I can't write fast enough to keep up with his fuckups. I'm just getting around to his version of auto bailout which he says was his idea. This claim is holding its own as news on the day following the revelation that Barack Obama supports gay marriage. It is a big deal because Romney is acting as if there is no video of him taking potshots at Obama for his decision to write a check to the auto companies. No one is going out on a limb to say that this is the beginning of the end of the Romney campaign, but I will. While taking credit for the success of the auto bailout might have been a choreographed move on Romney's part, it is turning into a gaffe. This is the kind of stuff the press loves. They aren't going to let up on this and it is an easy tool for the Obama camp to use to portray Romney as coreless and unprincipled. This will become late night monologue fodder. It's going to be what solidifies Romney as a joke. And then he will go away.

INDIANA REPUBLICAN RICHARD LUGAR JUST GOT TEA PARTIED OUT OF OFFICE by a resentfully partisan control-freak. In his concession speech, Lugar lashed out at his opponent, and that's right, legislators on "both sides" for their unprecedented partisanship. This is deja vu all over again. It was no different from when Maine Senator Olympia Snowe in announcing her retirement blamed "both sides" for the unprecedented partisanship in the Senate (I wrote about that here). Including Democrats as part of the problem is either a cynical attempt at bipartisanship or a way to mitigate the blame the Republicans rightfully receive for their filibuster abuse over the past three years. The so-called liberal media is finally setting the record straight. Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein laid it out unapologetically in an article entitled "Let's Face It: Republicans Are The Problem." In their criticism, the two suggest the lazy media (my words) should stop following the lazy, uninformed assumption that "both sides are equally guilty" (my words again). Things have not changed since the coverage of the run up to the Iraq War where the overwhelming evidence against the Bush Administration's claims was relegated to page 27. Newsfolk should have a bias - a bias for truth. And if their guiding principle is not to hurt the feelings of conservatives, maybe they should become publicists for Ted Nugent.