Of course, the 2012 presidential election isn’t until 2012, hence the name, and it’s not until November at that, so this is a full 18 months from now and more than a year after the end of the world, if you listen to the rapture folks, so it may seem a bit superfluous to be doing mini-profiles of Republican candidates, but I did mention the Mitt Romney paperback scandal yesterday, so I thought I’d follow up with that tonight and examine the implications.
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I may write more about other Republican candidates in future but, my goodness gracious, they are a sorry lot. Haley Barbour, aka Boss Hogg from “The Dukes of Hazzard,” now says he might throw his hat into the ring.
Anyway, on the Romney thing. He put out a hardcover book about a year ago, called No Apology: The Case for American Greatness. He changed the title of the paperback to the much snappier No Apology: Believe in America. He also wrote a new forward, chock full of teabags. So far, no big deal. Author’s discretion. A simple, non-controversial update.
But he made some changes on the inside, too. Instead of saying that the stimulus could have worked better, in the paperback he said it was a horrible failure. He changed his position on health care, too, to “hail no, we don’t want no Obamacare.”
So, he’s trying hard, flip flopping like a fish on a boat, but it won’t matter. Romney can’t win.
It’s the religion thing. The fundamentalist Christians won’t vote for a Mormon. Plenty of them won’t, and that’ll be enough to cost him the nomination. The fundies like Huckabee, or Palin, or anybody but a Mormon. Now, I know some of you are saying “Hey, come on, Obama got elected and he’s black, why not a Mormon?” Because Obama’s voters were liberals and progressives and centrists and a whole big range of normal folks. Romney needs the inbred cousin fucker vote because, at the moment, they ARE the Republican party. And they’re not going to vote for him.
So that whole book deal will be for naught. It’s a brilliant strategy, though. Maybe next time they should go straight for the comic book.
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There are some fundamentalists who are well off and would vote for any Republican who will enrich their investments, tax exemptions, etc. They will instruct their often less educated congregations to vote for the ‘Moral’ Republicans despite evidence to the contrary.