Posted on 05/26/2006 12:18:09 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Mitt Romney just can’t help himself.
Gunga Mitt and his lumberjack shirt have spent the last few days first in Iraq and now in Afghanistan. It’s all very Rudyard Kipling. The Man Who Would Be King is now The Man Who Would Be President.
East is east and west is west, and Mitt won’t be seen again in Assabet.
Ship Mitt somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst. Just don’t ask him anything about a bill that concerns a nurse.
Gunga Din - rhymes with has-been, which is what Mitt is in Massachusetts. Not that he cares. Once he returns to New England, do you think he’ll be spending most of the weekend in Belmont, or at Lake Winnipesaukee?
All the recent Republican governors have had their . . . hobbies, shall we say. Bill Weld enjoyed the occasional amber-colored beverage, Paul Cellucci the ponies, Jane Swift a dozen or so crullers.
Mitt’s hooked on running for president. Like a moth to the klieg lights, he flies right into the flame. Maybe it’s about his father. George Romney was going to be the Republican candidate for president in 1968 until he went to Vietnam. When he returned home to Detroit, he said he’d been “brainwashed,” and that was the end of George Romney’s campaign.
Mitt goes on junkets, and never once does he utter the “B” word.
It’s not that Mitt’s exactly out of touch with the electorate. Most of Massachusetts wants out of Massachusetts, the sooner the better, and the governor certainly shares his constituents’ desires. There go his people - he must follow them.
But how many of us want to flee to Kabul?
Another point: Barring another Sept. 11, is the War on Terror going to be a big issue in 2008? And even if it is, will it help or hurt Mitt if he’s joined at the hip to the Bush administration?
And by the way, how seriously is anyone ever going to take Mitt as a hard-liner?
Remember Judge E. George Daher’s famous line about then-presidential candidate Mike Dukakis being rolled by Billy Bulger: “How can he stand up to the Russians if he can’t stand up to a corrupt midget?”
Of Mitt can it not now be said, “How can he stand up to al-Qaeda and the Taliban if he can’t stand up to Fat Matt Amorello?”
You know of course what Mitt Romney says, at least in private, when you ask him why he even bothers to remain governor. He says he spent $6 million to get the job, and he’s going to enjoy it to the bitter end.
But of course it’s not being governor that he likes. He relishes the trappings - the entourage, the plainclothes state police and the TV time. And the title, of course. But as for actually sitting down with, say, Sal DiMasi - that’s not something Mitt would want to do, even if he were willing to pay a lobbyist to make it happen.
Let’s look at what Mitt has done lately, other than last week’s lumberjack-shirt media frenzy?
He’s announced he’d veto a cut in the gas tax.
And that he’d sign a bill to give cops the right to stop motorists solely because they weren’t wearing a seat belt - imposing a new tax, in other words, on law-abiding citizens.
Way to reach out to the Republican base in Massachusetts, Mitt.
He’s certainly not doing any favors for his lieutenant governor, Muffy Healey.
I recently read a review of a book by a Nobel Prize winner I’d never heard of - Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright. In 1956 he was an exchange student in the UK, so excited by the Hungarian revolution that he wanted to travel to Budapest to take part in the uprising.
His father back home was not impressed. He sent his son a telegam: “Kindly return home and make this your battlefield.”
Mitt, kindly return home . . . and shut up.
With Howie's columns of late, I don't think you'll be seeing Mitt fill in for Howie on the show any more.
Howie mentions FR all the time, but does he post here? Under KrispyKreme, perhaps, or TarTarSauce?
" Let’s look at what Mitt has done lately, other than last week’s lumberjack-shirt media frenzy?
He’s announced he’d veto a cut in the gas tax.
And that he’d sign a bill to give cops the right to stop motorists solely because they weren’t wearing a seat belt - imposing a new tax, in other words, on law-abiding citizens.
Way to reach out to the Republican base in Massachusetts, Mitt.
He’s certainly not doing any favors for his lieutenant governor, Muffy Healey. "
I don't know ...
Sounds to me like a smaller-scale version of what's going on with Billary and Dubya. Mitt acts more like a centrist in order to make Muffy appear more conservative.
He may post here for all I know, but not sure what name he uses. He does mention that he checks us out though, of course.
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