Willard M. Romney, better known as Bullshit Mitt, unrepentant liar and animal abuser,* the Mormon candidate, is having a bit of trouble lately, on account of being a total chickenshit who is afraid to talk to any reporters.
Not a Happy Camper
Some (most) would say it started with his interview with Bret Baier of Fox News. I still haven’t seen it, and don’t intend to go out of my way to do so, because it’s Fox News for goodness sake, but all of the people who follow these sort of things and write about them say it didn’t really go very well. Baier asked Romney, basically “How do you feel about the fact that everybody thinks you are a slimy, fork-tongued weasel?”
It was a reasonable question, and any politician worthy of being in the game could have fielded it, pivoted and turned it into a campaign speech. “Well, Bret, I’m not, and blah, blah, blah grow the economy, blah blah blah defend our nation, blah blah blah something something bible something, and that’s all I have to say about that.” He’d have survived and even picked up some small percentage of the moron teabagger vote. But he waffled like Long John Kerry and it hurt him, badly.
But that wasn’t the worst part. After the interview, Romney caught up to Baier in the hall and said “wtf, dude, that was a little harsh, don’t you think?” Baier, proving once again that Fox News is just the TV version of the Drudge report, tattled about the conversation to the public at large.
Then, today, Romney was scheduled to be interviewed by Mike Huckabee (who’s got some real animal abuse skeletons of his own, involving one of his morbidly obese offspring) when a couple of Romney aides saw a NYT jounalist sitting backstage. The aides told the journalist to back the fuck off. The New York Times journalist, like Bret Baier, proceeded to inform the general public of this fact.
Why is Mitt Romney afraid to talk to journalists. Is he afraid of gotcha questions such as “Why don’t you go by the name Willard, Willard?” or “You don’t really take all this Mormon nonsense seriously, do you?”
My theory: He saw what the press did to his Daddy over that little brainwashing comment, which was probably the most honest thing George Romney ever said, and vowed it would never happen to him. So, he adopted the strategy of taking no chances. If you don’t say anything, you can’t say anything stupid.
Good luck with that.
*actually, the story about the dog tied to the roof of the car is mostly just weird. It doesn’t quite rise to the Michael Vick standard of cruelty to animals, although it shows a bit of insensitivity, at the very least
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