28 December 11
Over the holidays, Willard Romney has been seeking once again to
define himself, a job that is very similar to that undertaken by the
people who renovate old country homes. The first thing you have to do is
to tear down the accumulated improvements and renovations of the past
40 or 50 years, and get back down to the basic intent of the original
architects. (Maybe changing the solarium into a replica of the Jungle
Room at Graceland back in '62 wasn't the smartest move in the world.)
So, basically, Willard is taking the sledge and the pry-bar to
everything he's done politically since he bum-rushed his way into the
governor's chair in Massachusetts to reveal the original moral
architecture of Willard Romney, International Man of Privilege.
And, yeah, it turns out he's pretty much a smug,
arrogant, and, yes, entitled rich kid who divides the world mentally
into two kinds of people - himself and The Help. Lately, he's been
sounding a new theme
in his campaign to be our national CFO. He's railing against what he
calls President Obama's attempts to turn the United States into "an
entitlement society." (This charge, of course, coming as it does from a
guy whose gifts as a liar are as rudimentary as his skills
as a demagogue, is utterly false, but let's all be big-boy pundits and
pretend for a while that truth isn't necessarily ever the point.) What
is important is how easily Romney has managed to slide into the
essential character of the most rabid evening-drive radio morons on your
dial. Willard Romney has never known a day of peril in his life. He
grew up with a silver spoon lodged so deeply in his gums that he had his
baby teeth until he was 25. He did his Mormon mission in Provence,
for the love of god. He moved onto a lucrative career in predatory
capital. If, as was said, George W. Bush was born on third base and
thought he hit a triple, then Willard Romney was born in the dugout with
four runs in, nobody out, and the bases loaded. READ MORE
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