Friday, February 10, 2012

Romney the Schmuck

So I rarely watch the Daily Show anymore, even though it's still often quite good, but happened to catch a repeat of the 2/1 show, where Steward deconstructed the latest brilliant analogy from Romney. He was talking to a reporter at CNN and explained that the extremely rich will be fine (fair enough) and that the extremely poor will be fine (um, what?). His explanation was the "safety net" that obviously provides them with an opulent lifestyle that really doesn't look that different from the rich made them okay. Sure they have crappy healthcare. Sure they get about $12 a day for themselves and their family. Sure they can't fly first class, pay for the gas for the yachts the government reserved for them, have to rent out a room in their one-bedroom-apartment-for-four so they can buy an ounce of caviar and buy their designer J.C. Penny clothes at the Salvation Army. But, hey, they do pay the same tax rate! 

I sometimes wonder why the Republican party hasn't already embraced Romney as their best shot at winning the Presidency back from the evil, unAmerican socialist now occupying the top CEO spot. Then I listen to him talk with his aristocratic voice, cluelessness to the world that surrounds him and general disdain for truth and understand. But who do they turn to? After flirting with an even bigger tool from Texas, a pizza magnet that misunderstands delivery in less than an hour, a cherub who likes pizza a little too much and a woman that knows less about American history than a five year old Cossack, they have finally embraced the rich dude with a heart of steel. Or wait, maybe this anti-gay fella who thinks evolution is as silly a theory as global warming might be the next "great white hope." Stay tuned for the next episode of "The party that seems intent on self-immolation."

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