It’s hard to keep up with Mitt Romney. In less than one day of his foreign policy credential-boosting trip, he managed to:
- insult the organizers of the London Olympics;
- piss off Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron;
- get mocked by Conservative London Mayor Boris Johnson in front of a crowd of tens of thousands;
- piss off Britain’s entire foreign policy and intelligence establishment by revealing where and when he’d met with the head of MI 6; and,
- confirm George Bernard Shaw’s observation that “England and America are two countries separated by a common language” when he took a “look out the backside of 10 Downing Street”, which in contemporary British English means, roughly, to “look out the Prime Minister’s ass”.
So much for the benefits of sharing an “Anglo-Saxon heritage”.
And all that was before Romney ended his day at a campaign fundraiser at which he collected over $1 million from Barclays bankers.
The good news for Romney is that in the long run, a bad day like yesterday probably won’t make a bit of difference in November’s election. The bad news is:
- it’s further proof of on the national scene of what Massachusetts political observers have long known—Mitt “has the common touch of a freshly-groomed poodle — the kind with carved fur balls down along his perfectly manicured feet”;
- he’s going to debate (without a teleprompter) Barack Obama three times this fall. If this is what Mitt does all by himself in one of the least pressured situations imaginable for a man who organized the Olympic Games 10 years ago, what’s going to happen when he’s all alone with the best political counterpuncher of this generation?
Crossposted at: http://masscommons.wordpress.com/