“honorary natural born redneck”
Here’s the thing about Romney, he’ll wear that title with pride.
He may be rich as heck, he went to Harvard, he may even be the flip-flopping former Gov. of Massa-freaking-chusetts and know only team owners on the NASCAR circuit.
But he will be your Huckleberry when the chips are down.
Which, btw, they are.
Mitt sells out, he wants to be everybody’s huckleberry, to the point of a painful fence straddle. So he tells some whoppers, claiming he’s pleasing everybody (he isn’t — no compromise can) and probably will do so for his whole career.
I believe it’s still easier to work with that — he is more amenable to influence by the popular will — than it is to work with a dogmatic Marxist. Some disagree, and think Barack brittle enough to break while Mitt will be forever getting into please-everybody messes that are difficult to clean up.
If I had steam to blow it would be at the 90% of voters who did not budge from their bottoms in the primaries. THAT was the chance to get someone better than Mitt on the ballot, and there was never an easier time to ensure a person with actual conservative views would get accepted in the general election. Obama stands to be beaten by a moldy stale ham sandwich and Mitt is proof of that.