Why Mitt Romney is such an inviting and rather substantial target may be a mystery to him but not to us media vampires: he has a public track record, a coif that Ronald Reagan would envy, and an evolutionary arc to his current strongly-held principles (which shouldn’t be confused with his former strongly-held principles). Oh yea, he’s also a front-runner here in the first-in-the-solar-system primary land and that’s always good for watching the slings and arrows fly.
In the ‘watch out, you might get what you ask for’ department, the Romney campaign asked folks to take part in a Internet video ad contest (his attempt to control YouTube passions) and the good folks at Slate complied. Their submission is one I’m sure the Romney cadres hope doesn’t see too much play (fat chance: see Tube, You). Titled “Five Brothers,” the video is, to put it mildly, a tough-love take on Romney’s foot-in-the-mouth observation about what constitutes patriotic service when it comes to sons.
Closer to home, Chris Stewart, the maestro of that always entertaining Monday Morning Clacker blog, has his own Romney juxtaposition expose today: the cover from a New England gay and lesbian newspaper in 1994 in which the Mittster proclaims “I’ll be better than Ted for gay rights.” The Ted in this case is Ted Kennedy. This must be a different Mitt because these days, as Stewart notes, the Mittster is all about “Republicans being Republicans” which translate into rather brutal gay-bashing. The Mittster even made a commercial about this latest strongly-held principle.
Try as we might, we can’t make this stuff up. We don’t need to.
Also: In my daily link Ron Paul’s supporters say they want more of him in New Hampshire. Is Paul, the GOP Internet dandy, listening? Or is the “unofficial” blogging site not so unofficial?
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