The most delightful feature of the political circus still on tour has profoundly transfigured. Remember, in those days of yore, when our most transcendent joy came in watching the GOP's stumblebums assault and vilify one another and in general eviscerate each other's electability -- especially Mitt Romney's, which was perceived with some minor justification as the one realistic threat to President Obama? Well, none of that, any longer, makes any difference. Now they're all unelectable, and probably Mitt Romney most of all.
This election will be scored as historic mostly in the sense that never before has a party so disowned, so abused, so thoroughly trashed its only presidential hope (possible exception: the Whigs and Henry Clay). Far, far more effectively than Obama or any Democrat ever could, Romney's compadres have reduced him to a bandaged, sputtering contender of an Elia Kazan film. Given the pounding he's taken in this election cycle, Mitt couldn't now get himself elected as State Auditor of Utah.
It's a thing of pity ... almost. And what makes me so uncommonly pitiless is that Mitt has been as abusive, as decadent, as monstrous as any. He deserves all the wickedness that his way comes.
Stumblebums! This primary campaign has gone from tortuous to delightful!
Posted by: You Don't Say | January 23, 2012 at 11:19 AM
I'm having a great deal of difficulty dealing with my inner glee. Can all this really be happening? Is there some way the Democrats can snatch that defeat from the jaws of victory? The mind searches restlessly for scenarios wherein some white knight rides to the Republican's rescue. There are some possible candidates to be sure but there they all stand on the shore while the actual candidates duke it out on the thinnest of ice. Waving encouragement, of course, but not volunteering to pull anybody out either. No doubt muttering under their breath: I'd like to help but you've gone a little too far out.
Posted by: Peter G | January 23, 2012 at 11:41 AM