[Editor's Commentary: I wanted to repost this Boston Herald article, not because I agree with every point the author makes, but because I think it's very well written and she has used some very clever expressions. My personal favorite is the "Ward Clever Reassurance Scale." I know a lot of our readers will have to Google "Ward Cleaver" to find out who the heck he is, but it will be a pleasant stroll down "memory lane" for some and new information for others.
Just a reminder......for those readers in Missouri, our primary is this coming Tuesday, Aug., 3. Polls are open from 6am to 7pm. Please be sure to vote and bring somebody with you. Vote for the most conservative candidate available, put a clothespin over your nose if necessary. Vote "YES" on PROP C, to protect Missourians from the tender mercies of Obamacare.]
By: Margery Eagan bostonherald.com
So Mitt Romney – the venture capitalist guru who never sweats – leads all Republicans in a new Zogby poll that has him within striking distance of Obama, 45-43.
Can anyone be surprised? The economy’s a mess. We’re basket cases over keeping jobs and homes. Obama’s reduced to courting Whoopi and Barbara Walters today on “The View,” hoping a cozy chat will reassure the wives of independents and/or Tea Party sympathizers who’ve abandoned the president in droves.
Close your eyes. Envision, for a second, the best known GOP contenders: Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul. On the Ward Cleaver Reassurance Scale, none comes anywhere close to impeccable and unflappable Mitt with his crisp Power Point efficiency, his broad shoulders, his Vanilla Cokes, his beatific wife, and all those strapping sons with Talbots wives and Pottery Barn kids.
Does Mitt Romney ever go berserk? No.
He presides like a patient patriarch with that dignified splash of gray around his temples. (How come that gray never advances, you privately wonder).
How come, you may also ask, he seems preternaturally bloodless?
In these troubled times, nobody cares. We’ll overlook a lot: Mitt’s flips. Mitt’s flops. Mitt’s flip-flop-flips. Mitt’s illegal Guatemalan leaf baggers and the poor Irish setter Seamus he once tied to his station wagon’s roof for an eight-hour family trip.
Last time around, GOP “values” voters were supposedly spooked by the Mormon thing. There were unnerving GOP debates over evolution vs. creationism and the CNN questioner who actually asked if candidates believed every word of the Bible.
Today, it’s Mormon, Sch-mormon.
Mitt’s biggest problem: His fellow Republicans will wrap Obama-care around his neck no matter how he tries to wiggle away. And we’ll hear over and over Romney’s infamous quote: “I think the fundamentals of our economy are sound.” Whoops.
Expounding on the wonders of the free market – just months before it stole our 401(k)s – he said this to the New York Times [NYT], among others. When John McCain uttered the exact same words in the summer of 2008, and again after September’s Wall Street meltdown, it all but killed his chances along with, of course, his choice of running mate, Ms. Palin.
Suppose McCain had picked Romney instead. I, for one, am rooting for Mitt to get the GOP nod. What great fun for Massachusetts. And it’ll guarantee no repeat run by Palin, whose hokey-pokey candidacy, Part II, my shattered nerves will not survive.
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