Romney goes out there and loses one for the Gipper
September 5, 2008 5 Comments
by lestro
The Democrats had Dennis Kucinich, The Republicans had Mitt Romney.
During Romney’s speech this past week at the convention, the vanquished former governor of Massachusetts and passed-over veep short-lister who ran mainly on the strength of his hair made his pitch to give the Reagan-esque, convention-stealing, oh-shit-we-got-the-wrong-guy speech that Reagan gave in 1976, setting himself up as the 1980 standard-bearer.
But where Reagan inspired, Romney, crazy eyes blazing and Presidential Coif shaking the whole time, leaned waaaay right, threw everything he had against the wall and instead of coming off looking like the missed opportunity I am sure he hoped it would, he just sounded like a lunatic.
Every line of this thing is pure, crazy gold. Here’s the opener:
For decades, the Washington sun has been rising in the east – Washington has been looking to the eastern elites, to the editorial pages of the Times and the Post, and to the broadcasters from the coast.
If America really wants change, it’s time to look for the sun in the west, cause it’s about to rise and shine from Arizona and Alaska!
huh? Then he just starts swinging at liberals, making no sense but obviously just trying to fire up the crowd and leave an impression.
Last week, the Democrats talked about change. But let me ask you – what do you think Washington is right now, liberal or conservative? Is a Supreme Court liberal or conservative that awards Guantanamo terrorists with constitution rights? It’s liberal!
Actually, protecting the rights laid out in the constitution is a conservative idea. So is the Court, by the way. He goes on: Read more of this post
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