Bush 3.0?

One would think the last thing a candidate running for President would do is remind the country of the failed Bush presidency. Au contraire, mon ami! Apparently, Mitt Romney doesn't just want to re-institute the Bush tax and spending cuts, deregulation and business-friendly policies but seems poised to continue the failed foreign policy of our ex-Monkey in Chief as well. To that end, he is assembling a team of Bush Neocon flunkies, who must be surprised to be getting a call from anyone except the defense industry: Salon. Yes, Richard Grenell is gone after it became clear that he was .... well .... gay. But Michael Chertoff (of Homeland Security and Katrina infamy) is back, Iraq War supporter Eliot Cohen is here, Cofer Black (fired chief of Blackwater, who bribed Iraqi officials) is hanging around and ex-Assistant Secretary of Defense Mary Beth Long, who oversaw Iraq and Afghanistan, is co-chairing one of the 13 working groups currently formulating Romney's foreign policy stances -- though one assumes he will need a whole army of copyeditors as he changes his stance as polls change.

Gingrich has finally quit, so it's Romney or Obama now. One should expect one of the ugliest elections in history, with Romney lying, rewriting history and his record and changing his mind from one microphone to the next. The political ads will be nasty, the rhetoric boiling with covert racism, xenophobia and homophobia and history rewritten to create a tale of a non-citizen, socialist Hitler wannabe President that is to blame for the economic crisis, meager increase in CEO salaries the past three years (only rose 15% in 2011) and, hell, the loss of the Vietnam war as well. Along the way, we will here that Romney is a moderate, I mean conservative, I mean Bush supporter, I mean nothing like Bush, oh, whatever you want me to be. Is that really what we want in a President? Actually, is that really what we want in a human being? We shall see ...