In the most perverse way I'm almost sorry we'll never see a Romney presidency. The tattered remnants of the dying GOP will frustrate and obstruct every sensible policy under Obama II, anyway, and just think of what the alternative could have offered:
Four years of rabble-roused doubt about Romney's presidential legitimacy--all those questions about his "Mexican" background, you know. Is he really a U.S. citizen? Are his roots not certifiably foreign? "2020: Romney's America"--there's a traitor among us.
And his religion. Christian? No way. The man's a cultist, as any good Christian whose ancestors never had to skulk our southern border evading good old American justice can fundamentally tell you. Sure, Romney will repeatedly swear otherwise. Any unChristian traitor would, wouldn't he?
Oh and the debt. Mein Gott this debt! He's been in office one year, two years or three and the debt is way over $16 $17 $18 trillion! and it's approaching $20 trillion and it's all Romney's fault. Every last friggin' dime of it.
And we never even got our life-saving, economy-recovering 20-percent tax cut because those Senate Democrats have obstructed each ... and ... every ... piece ... of ... Romney's ... legislative ... agenda. No, wait. No they haven't. They've been working on jobs! Or that's what they tell us. Strange, though, nothing ever seems to happen. Time for a change--in the White House?
Whoa! That $16 $17 $18 $19 $20 trillion national debt is looking pretty good now that we're militarily bogged down in Tehran and Damascus and Sana'a to the tune of an additional $3 trillion a year (off budget at least, whew).
Those are just the highlights, both scuttlebutt-fantasy and the expectantly real. The latter--the daily, downward grind and unremitting vulgarity of a Romney presidency--might escape the utterly unimaginatively polarized on the right; but most with any vision at all can, I think, see that future pretty vividly, dark though it is.
Ah, peversity, thy name is P M Carpenter.
One of my favorite pastimes is checking out the on-line LTE's in my local paper and then perusing the comments. There is a fairly even mix of sane people and RWNJ's so there can be some interesting cross chatter (that is being nice).
A favorite response from the right whenever the GOP obstructionism is brought up is that the President has to own whatever happens on his watch. My almost reflexive response (once I figured it out) was to give praise to whomever made that comment by saying that it is refreshing to see someone on the right admit that 9/11 was Bush's fault, the bursting of the housing bubble was Bush's fault, the recession was Bush's fault, the increase in global warming was Bush's fault, etc. I have yet to receive one response to that comment.
Posted by: japa21 | October 08, 2012 at 01:16 PM
Japa, that is great that you do that, but my experience has always been that they will then turn around and blame the "liberal democrat congress" even for the things that happened before the 2006 mid-terms when the democrats actually won the majority in congress.
Posted by: AnneJ | October 08, 2012 at 01:39 PM
AnneJ, I know. It really doesn't have any impact, and they go sputtering off into the sunset spouting their usual garbage. I just enjoy the little tweaking and just perhaps, it might make someone who has a little bit of their sanity left have a better understanding of what is really happening.
Posted by: japa21 | October 08, 2012 at 02:11 PM
Yes, japa here's hoping that no matter what nonsensical right wing response you get, maybe someone with a little sense will also read it as well.
Posted by: AnneJ | October 08, 2012 at 02:27 PM