Romney’s blowing it.
All the major pundits say he has the nomination sewn up, and I can’t see Cain or Perry upsetting the apple cart, either – they’ve given it their best shot and just wound up looking stupid. Michele “crazy eyed Jesus lady” Bachmann, neither, because you can’t fall that far that fast and still get
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up. I don’t think so anyway. There are great comeback stories among the dark forces of American politics, but I don’t think she’s going to be one. I still think Roemer, Huntsman or Johnson could begin to gain traction when the primaries begin, but Romney doesn’t need to sweat them just yet.
But Romney’s sweating. He realizes that Perry’s birther nonsense, crazy as it might sound, has appealed to some Republicans, and Herman Cain has staked out the “I don’t know how to pronounce the names of foreign countries and I’m proud of that” crowd. He also seems to have figured out, politically astute individual that he is, that a large number of that crowd are smokers. Even Newt Gingrich is stubbornly refusing to just go away and crawl into a hole in the ground, which all Republicans would be required to do in a world where politicians had a sense of shame.
So, simultaneously confused and emboldened by the insistent drumbeat of insanity, Mitt has announced that he is now a global warming denier. “I don’t think we really know,” he said. That’s not actually true, Mitt. There is a clear consensus among scientists not employed by oil companies that climate change exists and that human industry is contributing to it.
But let’s leave that aside for the moment. What Romney (and almost every other Republican) is fighting against is clean air. They just say stuff like “Science doesn’t have all the answers” and “We need to focus on jobs” because saying “I hate clean air” might sound too negative. “Breathing is Overrated” would not make a good campaign slogan.
If you don’t believe that human industrial activity dirties up the air, try this little experiment. Next time there’s a 3 day weekend and the factories are closed and traffic is light because even considering all the people going out of town its still far fewer cars on the freeway than everybody driving back and forth to work, pay attention. If you live in a large city, the air will be significantly clearer and cleaner at the end of the weekend than at the beginning. You will actually be able to see things you didn’t before.
Republicans hate that.
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