Poor Mitt Romney. I'm beginning to feel a bit sorry for the guy.
President Barack Obama steals his ideas and implements them, forcing Romney to denounce the very proposals he once supported. After all, you can't seek the GOP nomination for the presidency unless you are prepared to bash the president with heaping doses of vitriol, right? You can't be caught agreeing with a single idea that Obama -- that radical, socialist Kenyan Marxist -- has ever had.
So Romney has once again had to distance himself from -- well, from himself. On automobile industry bailouts, though, Romney's contortions have been more convoluted and difficult than on health care reform because they required a triple-flip, a move that had to be hard on the joints of a middle-aged man. (Those moves should have been hard on his integrity, too, but he seems to have surrendered that for the duration of the campaign.)
Anyway, if you're having trouble keeping up, here's the story: Once upon a time, Romney favored limited government support for an American automobile industry in crisis. Romney knows something about that business because his father, George, was a longtime automobile executive --and later a governor of Michigan. (continued at link)
On Friday a tremor went through the Republican Party. Word had come out of Austin via Newsmax that Texas Gov. Rick Perry had told a reporter, when asked if he would consider running for president, that he would "think about it."
Although a Perry spokesman would later attest that Perry had no actual desire to run for president, conservative and liberal pundits ran with the idea of a Perry candidacy as if it were almost a done deal. Perry said he would discuss the matter in depth after the Texas legislature adjourned. But while everyone was waiting to see if the governor of Texas was actually going to throw his hat into the political ring of 2012 GOP candidates, former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin may have torpedoed his candidacy before it even left port.
"I think he would be a fine candidate," Palin said during a CNN reported stop at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, part of her "One Nation" bus tour. "We have a lot in common. I really like him. But there are so many candidates and potential candidates out there who have so much to offer."
heh.. fun times.
