It wasn't enough, apparently, to call Obama the "food stamp president." Now apparently he's the unemployed ghetto crack dealer president also:
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is apparently on the offensive after his drubbing in the South Carolina Republican primary at the hands of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich yesterday. TPM’s Benjy Sarlin is at a Romney Rally in Ormond Beach, Florida and tweets that the former Gov. said “I think it’s time we had someone in the White House who knows how to create jobs because he’s had a job.”
Most crack dealers work harder on a given Tuesday than Mitt Romney has in his entire life. I am not speaking on the basis of my extensive crack-dealer data, natch, since that grant fell through, but pretty much anybody selling a desperately desired product to customers with questionable impulse control is going to have to drink a large latte to get through the morning.
In all seriousness, I don't know where Mitt goes from here. How much worse does it get? How much harder can he work to convince Republican voters that he's the biggest asshole? Does he have to eat a kitten alive on TV? Maybe that would resonate enough to get Romney and Newt into an episode of Top Chef where they compete to skin and portion the things the fastest.
This is where we're at: Mitt, who is so desperate for a nomination he's willing to render himself unelectable to 60 percent of voters by winning the hearts of enough of 40 percent of them, that is to say, by becoming enough of a hateful prick to win a GOP primary battle. And Newt, who is just in this to be a dick. Who has no policy positions that aren't veiled racial slurs, rehashes of shit that didn't work in the 90s, and a staggeringly unpopular stance against presidential blow jobs.
I am sort of rooting for Jeb Bush and Sarah Palin to get into this, just to led it some intellectual heft.
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It's starting to feel like that point where, when reading a book of Darwin awards, you quit laughing at the stupid people and realize that it's all just awful. This crap doesn't just win them votes from racist yahoos, it helps legitimize racist yahoo views.
Posted by: dr2chase | January 22, 2012 at 22:16
we are doomed. It's getting crazier and crazier. I just read a nice little tidbit over at Digby's about the Atlanta Jewish Times running an Op Ed calling on Mossad to assassinate the President in order to preserve Israel.
An OP ED!!!!
wtf?
Posted by: Escariot | January 22, 2012 at 22:28
he should have been a jehovah's witness. not so cultish.
Posted by: pansypoo | January 23, 2012 at 00:26
Actually, I've known some really nice Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses. I get kind of annoyed at the religion bashing, particularly when my own views probably seem equally weird to most other folks. Just sayin'. :-(
Posted by: Tom Allen | January 23, 2012 at 10:11
Take heart. Jeb will be the GOP nominee in 2016. I'm takin bets right now. All this BS about "the Bush name is permanently tarnished" are just that: BS. We most certainly have not seen the end of them.
Posted by: bikelib | January 23, 2012 at 11:43
Bikelib - it is already St. Ronnie (forgetting that the economy in his first term was lackluster). There are calls that rehab Nixon. Ollie North gets his own talk radio show (we've forgotten about treason and lying to Congress). We never seemed to understand that Bush = Carlisle Group = front man for the Saudis.
In short, unfortunately I have to think you're right.
Posted by: MapleStreet | January 23, 2012 at 17:19