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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Liar's Honeymoon

Eliminate outliers and outright liars (perennially skewed Rasmussens and such) and Obama is ahead by about five points even now, pretty much exactly as he always has been. Given the economy, you can't honestly expect much better than that. Now, shift your focus from electorally irrelevant national averages to actual viable pathways state by state and it is hard to find anything that plausibly puts Romney anywhere near the White House. He's stiff, unlikable, untrustworthy, out of touch, his negatives among women and people of color are through the roof (say hi to Seamus up there, Mitt), same as he ever was. Of course Presidential elections are never a sure thing, and I personally am more pleased than not to think that nervousness might nudge languorous Democrats into making sure they're actually registered and actually grasp that the difference between Democrats and Republicans is a difference that makes a difference and actually vote and all that sort of thing. But I think the recent Romney polling honeymoon is mostly an artifact of the mass media already reaching for the comfort of the horse race narrative they always prefer whatever reality looks like. As I have been saying for a year by now I don't see any benefit in taking things for granted, but I cannot say I am particularly worried about Obama. For me 2012 has been and remains all about reversing the perfectly predictable and predicted debacle of 2010, about retaining the Senate by the skin of our teeth and regaining the House -- and the Presidential matters mostly to the extent that its energy, its organizing, its coattails facilitate getting Democrats into Congress. Obama with this death-cult Republicanism in control of the Congress is a recipe for catastrophic paralysis. Sure, a Romney administration would lock patriarchal prick plutocracy into the Courts for the rest of our lives and bring on the muscular baby Jesus bloodbath, but I just don't rate that likely even though we should all work to ensure that doesn't happen either.

2 comments:

jimf said...

> Sure, a Romney administration would lock patriarchal prick
> plutocracy into the Courts for the rest of our lives and bring
> on the muscular baby Jesus bloodbath. . .

Now here's something interesting -- a video by Mitt Romney's
second cousin Park B. Romney (an ex-Mormon and author of
_The Apostasy of a High Priest_) in protest against the Mormons'
opposition to LGBT rights.

jimf said...

> Now here's something interesting. . .

Left out the URL(s):

Park Romney on same sex marriage - Part I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lw0osEJDPc

Park Romney on same sex marriage - Part II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRjD_oblHx4

Park Romney on same sex marriage - Part III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSduqvk9udg

Also available on his Web site:
http://www.parkromney.com/?view=equality&sid=1313670192alt