I’m a little under the weather today. Bad weather, a headache, no good food to eat in the house, a toddler who is doing his best Tasmanian Devil impression, etc. But that doesn’t mean that I haven’t noticed the humorous angles in the campaign today. For example, the idea that George W. Bush is more popular than Mitt Romney and would, presumably, have a better chance of beating Obama. And, of course, the whole question of whose idea was it to nominate Romney in the first place. And then the hilarious effort by Politico to turn Romney’s indisputable terribleness into an asset. It’s almost as if Politico wants us to vote for him out of pity. We shouldn’t fault him for trying to say anything that will get him into the Oval Office because he’ll really be great once he gets there and can do whatever he wants. What a joke!
The only thing that still has the power to surprise me is that there are still states in this country that strongly back Romney over the president. I think we need to figure out why that is. And I don’t think race really has all that much to do with it. I don’t think any Democrat would be given a chance in Idaho or Alabama. But at some point the difference in quality in candidates gets to be so obvious that you just can’t explain how people don’t care. I suspect that the politicization of abortion is probably the biggest factor. But Mitt Romney probably isn’t even anti-choice in his heart of hearts. Or, maybe he is. How the fuck would we know?
