Mitt, We Hardly Knew ‘Ya.
And that is a good thing, I guess. Mitt Romney announced today that he is out of the Republican race and I’ll admit to having mixed feelings. Not because I am especially fond of the brilliantined dandy, but because he has added a bit of character to a generally boring Republican race, and I’ll miss him for that. I’ll also miss the heated emails or animated responses to posts about Romney on the web from my brother who had a genuinely outsized loathing for Mitt and all he stands for, or doesn't stand for, or maybe stands for. There is hardly a website string featuring Romney that my bro has not responded to, eloquently and analytically skewering the man o’ plastic for opportunistically changing his position on nearly everything and it has been a lot of fun stumbling on his rants. But I will miss Mitt most because he would have been a great punching bag for the Democratic nominee. Alas, it isn’t going to happen now and the Democrats will have to deal with McCain and perhaps his “sidekick,” Mike Huckabee, a potential VP and pall bearer for the rich and famous if ever there were one.
As he slumbers while others are campaigning, Mitt will be seeing the former Arkansas Governor in his nightmares, that’s for sure, though it is unlikely that Mitt would have gone all the way or even done particularly well in the southern Super Tuesday primaries even if the Huckster hadn't been there to poke him in the eye. American politics are odd though and just as Nixon once famously said that American voters wouldn’t have him to “kick around” anymore, only to infamously return to the scene as President some time later, we may well see Mitt on the political scene again sometime, somewhere, transfigured perhaps as a cross-dressing liberal from SF or whatever form it takes to get him into the game, even for a little while.
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Who cares whether Mitt Romney is out of the race. There is more interesting stuff to blog about. For example, yesterday, the Obama campaign accidentally released (leaked) a memo to the press projecting the delegate count at the end of the primary process. It’s not clear how they came up with the numbers, perhaps wishful thinking, perhaps a crystal ball. Either way, the campaign seems to be lamenting the fact that the nominee will be decided by the super delegates. Apparently, Obama believes that this does not bode well for him. Naturally, he would like the press to take up this issue and cry foul on his behalf. And so they did.
The issue was discussed on all the political talk shows and before long, the country will be convinced that allowing the super delegates to determine the outcome of an election will be a great calamity akin to the Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore.
This, of course, is ridiculous. Obama, like everyone else, knew the rules before he embarked on his journey to the presidency. The rules were you go out there, you campaign, you rack up delegates and then you try to convince the super delegates to vote for you in the event the race is close. Even playing field. Obama now wants to change the rules because he apparently miscalculated at the beginning of the race. Perhaps he thought he would sweep the country. Perhaps he thought that democrats would flock to him and worship at his feet and he would or should have been the presumptive nominee a long time ago. That apparently did not happen. Tough!!!
Some democrats, indeed, more democrats-based on the popular vote-chose a different candidate. He now wants to change the rules because he does not agree with this choice. If he is so concerned about the democratic process, perhaps he should lobby for the popular vote to be counted instead of trying to eliminate the super delegates this late in the game. He does not do this, though. Why??? Because he looses as well!!!!!!
I am not a racist. Far from it and I would be proud to call a man or woman of color Mr. or Madam President. Not this time, though. Democrats will loose the White House in the Fall with candidate Obama carrying the party’s banner. Contrary to some of the pundits who seem to be of the opinion that Obama can get Clinton’s votes, there is no way that the lunch bucket crowd is going to vote for a President Obama. Instead, they will support a McCain presidency. That is unacceptable. After eight years eroding civil liberties, being spied upon when I email or phone my friends, having innocent and not so innocent people tortured in chambers across the globe courtesy of the US government, being mired down in Iraq, unfair tax codes, rising healthcare costs, the inability of some to afford healthcare altogether, etc. I am not ready for four more years of the same. Neither should you.
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