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Thursday, January 05, 2012

Sullivan Sounds Willard Weirdness Warning

Andrew Sullivan:
We've been so used to the weirdness of the island of misfit toys that is the GOP primary season that we may have missed the real story: the weirdest man in the whole race might actually be ... the one not supposed to be weird.
I don't like linking to him particularly, but I thought this was promisingly suggestive and also figured Sullivan would be one to know from his wingnut grapevine if where there is smoke there really is fire when it comes to Romney's brand of robotic rich-guy mormonic weird. I agree that Romney with his stiff awful gawky failed efforts at "joking" and otherwise "connecting" to Hu-mon voters is easily as substantially clownish as all the other clowns in the clown car even while the media casts him as the straight man of the bunch or at least the driver of the clown car, but I think the even bigger story is that Romney's endorsement of Paul Ryan's Medicare dismantlement via voucherizing and his anti-abortion stance and his healthcare repeal and replace (with nothing) promise and his more tax cuts for the rich job-creators who got Bush tax-cuts without creating any jobs but rich guys like me deserve more money anyway policy and his terrifying bellicosity toward Iran shows that he is also substantially extremist as all the other extremists in Crazytown even while the media casts him as the "moderate" or at least as the Mayor of Crazytown.

2 comments:

jollyspaniard said...

He comes off as insincere which makes him seem less crazy than the guys saying the same things who sound like they mean it.

Dale Carrico said...

It's quite paradoxical isn't it -- I've read many accounts in which Romney's insincerity is taken as a sign of him being less crazy than the rest of the Crazytown presidential hopefuls and also taken as a strangely oblique sign of him being more moderate than the rest of the extreme presidential field. What does it say that conspicuous deception is being treated as a hopeful glimmer of intelligence and moderation in today's GOP?