Mitt Romney: In Your Heart, You Know He’s A Loser by Justin Raimondo
Before taking that historical note too far, however, I have to admit
the idea of the Republican high mucka-mucks getting together and
deciding it would be better for them to throw the election to Obama by
putting up a loser like Romney does seem a bit far-fetched. Perhaps
they’ve convinced themselves, on one level, that Romney can actually
win, while – on quite another level – they don’t believe it for a
minute. People usually have no trouble holding mutually exclusive
beliefs in other areas, and politics is certainly no exception.
In your heart, you know he’s a loser – now there’s a campaign slogan tailor-made for the politics of Bizarro World. Which is all the more reason to believe there’s some truth to it.
If voters are in the mood to punish the Democrats somehow, and if
they can’t in good conscience do it on the presidential level, then
isn’t it more likely they’ll take it out on the rest of the ticket? If
Republicans can retain control of the House, that may be enough to keep
them from regretting their loss at the top of the ticket. Another wave
of victories on the state and local level will perhaps be enough to
satiate them, at least for the moment, until they get another crack at
the White House. Then they can sit back and blame the President for
everything, as the crisis unfolds, while cat-calling from the sidelines:
a perfect set-up for career politicians who have no principles, no
sense of duty to the country, and no compunctions about defrauding their
supporters. With Congress in their hot little hands, they can obstruct
the President’s domestic agenda and heckle him into getting more
aggressive on the overseas front – a perfect vantage point from which to
observe the rapidly accelerating decline of the American empire.