Fun in Michigan (for Us at Least)
Today’s Michigan primary is huge for Mitt Romney. That’s what everyone keeps telling us.
But I’m not so sure. After the shakeup in New Hampshire, I’m not putting it past any candidate to re-stamp his/her expiration date. And I certainly wouldn’t put it past Romney — a man whose fondness for exhausting his personal fortune in order to sustain his self-fellating candidacy has been well-documented. Romney has even said that a loss in Michigan wouldn’t make him drop out of the race.
Still, the latest Zogby poll (we know, we know) shows Arizona Sen. John McCain with a tiny lead in today’s race. Perhaps voters in Michigan will send a signal to the rest of America that Romney’s act has officially grown tired.
To wit: If you missed Romney’s speech to the Detroit Economic Club yesterday, it was truly something. Even by Romney’s standards, it was a fantastic example of blatant, shameless pandering. While McCain is going around Michigan telling everyone that they’re screwed and the auto industry jobs aren’t coming back, Romney is saying that Detroit will rise again to once more become the center of the car-making universe.
But the genius, as always, lies in the language Romney employs when whoring himself:
“If I’m elected as President of this great land, I will not need a compass to tell me where Michigan is.
“And I won’t need to be briefed on what’s going on in the auto industry or what’s happening to Michigan’s economy. You see, I’ve got Michigan in my DNA. I’ve got it in my heart and I’ve got cars in my bloodstream.”
Mitt: Just…stop.
As Dave Wedge notes in today’s Herald, some prominent people in Michigan have grown weary of Romney’s bullshit, and they’re responding by either failing to donate to his campaign or, worse, outright endorsing McCain.
Here at Boston Daily HQ, it’s sort of a catch-22 for us: Every time Romney opens his mouth, we run the risk of a brain aneurysm. And yet, we’re all stricken with fear about what we’ll do if he loses and we don’t have him to kick around anymore.
On that note, our picks for today’s primary:
Gonz
Romney, McCain, Huckabee, Henry Ford
Derjue
McCain, Romney, Huckabee, Giuliani
Flannery
Romney, McCain, Huckabee, Jimmy Hoffa
Keohane
Romney, McCain, Huckabee, Seamus the Dog
Kix
McCain, Huckabee, Mitt Romney, George Romney
January 15th, 2008 at 11:16 am
You Boston paper are so low.
You keep on attacking your former governor.
Why do’nt you want your former governor to be our president?
Are you too stupid to see that Mitt Romney is the only competent person in this presidential race!
January 15th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
I am APPALLED AND SPEECHLESS over the comment about brain aneurysm.I HAD one…27 Nov.2002 according to my note. I am BLESSED to be ALIVE. MUCH LESS TYPE. I am in ‘assisted living’ @ this time. I had to RElearm to WALK AND type. I have both a coil and a stint in my head. My DOCTOR PRAYS over me every time he sees me & I will have sugury the rest of my life to make sure the coil is in place..I want an APOLOGY PRINTED & MAILED: Ms. Marianne Rankin, #2 Courtland Dr. Hattiesburg, MS 39402.
January 15th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
PS: I am now 56 years old so I DO know what I am typing about…Oh, my ‘annie’ is in the Circle of Willis. That pertains to memory….but as I did genealogy for MANY years I take EXCELLANT notes. I will also have it printed out & probably framed.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Linda, Mitt Romney is a wind sock in a stuffed shirt and was probably made by Mattel.