Is Mitt Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom correct that Romney can remake himself like an Etch-a-Sketch for the general election? It seems like a completely delusional hope to me. I am sharing the following YouTube not only because it’s really well put together and funny, but because it demonstrates that Romney has already been defined.
First, people just need to acknowledge that the left has a near monopoly on using art in politics. This is a particularly big advantage in our technological age. Republicans can’t even find a decent rock band that will let them play their songs at political rallies. They’re stuck with Ted Nugent and Pat Boone. And they’re highly unlikely to come up with anything remotely as cool and effective as Shepard Fairey’s ubiquitous ‘Hope’ poster. All the tech-savvy innovations in politics have been pioneered by people on the left, leaving the GOP to constantly play keep-up. I can only imagine the size of the chasm between Obama’s voter file and Romney’s, and what they each, respectively, can do with it.
There are a million ways that the nation’s artists can utilize Mitt Romney’s performance in the primaries to make him pay in the general. And we’ll see them all. Romney can’t even create a first draft of himself, let alone erase the record and start from scratch in the general election. Looking at the condition of Romney’s campaign, I half expect his spokesman to tell us that he’s pining for the fjords. He’s certainly pining for an end to primary season:
Rival Santorum’s presidential campaign also quickly pounced on Fehrnstrom’s remark.
“We all knew Mitt Romney didn’t have any core convictions, but we appreciate his staff going on national television to affirm that point for anyone who had any doubts,” Santorum campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley said Wednesday in a statement.
Will Santorum ever shut up? Will he and Gingrich and the rest of the malcontents on the right ever let the real Mitt Romney step up?
Will they let him erase the primaries? Because, if they won’t do it, what hope is there that the rest of us will?
