And then there was 1; thoughts on Romney versus Obama

Now that Rick “The Saint” Santorum has finally sobered up and realized he had as much chance of being elected president as some guy named Abdul has of being the next pope, the race for president has crystallized into a two man race between Obama and Romney.   The frantic republicans are scurrying around searching for some issue that will resonate with voters, apparently realizing that, “things aren’t as good as we think they should be” isn’t it.  And they’re having a tough time; gas prices seem to be dropping and experts predict they will continue to drop absent Iran doing something suicidal and stupid.  This deflates the bogus, “Obama is causing gas prices to rise” rhetoric and takes away the “drill, baby, drill” urgency and trumped up pseudo-patriotic rants of oil soaked lobbyists and their insipid sycophants in congress.   Iraq is typically restive but not on fire.  North Korea-The Axis of Bumbling - had their giant firework go sideways.  Our economic nemesis, China, is experiencing slowing growth which isn’t a good thing for us but as long as they don’t start redeeming 10 year T-bills we’ll probably be OK.  There just isn’t a lot of traction for the Romney juggernaught to get some momentum.

 And yet, the democrats are once again proving that they are capable of misplaying a royal flush just because they are so politically inept.  It’s a party without an overriding guiding principle – unlike the republicans – and they are so unfocused they can’t hit a soft, underhand toss out of the infield.  The latest example of this tendency is the whole “Republican War on Women” stuff that they are beating into the ground.   During the last couple of months we had mouth-breathing male clowns proposing to make birth control illegal at worst and unaffordable and out or reach at best, force women seeking an abortion to have vaginally intrusive ultrasounds against their wishes, oppose pay equality measures and generally treat women in total as a nice smelling convenience who are lucky they are allowed to leave the house to vote.  I will grant that this makes for a tidy bit of campaign material to use against them.  I find it hard to believe any woman would vote for these guys, even if her family has been republican since Lincoln.   The last thing we need in government is a bunch of tired, closeted blowhards who are afraid of women and who probably watch tape loops of Ann Coulter while wearing nothing but tighty-whities and cowboy boots filled with Vaseline.  

But I can’t help feeling that the incessant drum beat from the left about this “war on women” is counterproductive – the horse is dead; you can stop hitting it anytime now.   Are there any conscious women in America who need to be convinced?  I don’t think so.  So get off it already.  I’m sure some propeller head at democratic headquarters thinks it’s a swell fund raising tool – maybe it is.  But it makes them look like hysterical opportunists working to exploit an issue that is already right there for all to see.  I don’t need 10 hyperventilating emails every day telling me what brain-dead assholes they are.  We get it.

And worst of all is the issue now bubbling away around the comments made by Hillary Rosen, questioning Ann Romney trying to portray herself as every woman and defend the essentially indefensible positions of her husband’s party.  Rosen said – quite justifiably – that Ann Romney shouldn’t be trying to come off as being a typical woman who understands and relates to women’s issues when she is married to a multi-millionaire and who never worked a day in her life.  Suddenly the media jackals and hyenas pounced on her and the indignant bleating and wailing was heard to echo across the land.  Of course we expect Faux News and other empty-headed news organizations to seize on this as some kind of bell weather issue and try to stir up controversy for its own sake.  And I understand the Obamas’ reluctance to embrace the rhetorical high hard one just for political comity.  But really; do we have to trip over each other apologizing to imaginary, infuriated soccer mom's and hard working June Cleavers over it?  IT’S TRUE, for Christ’s sake!  She can’t know what it’s like to have to choose between her job and her day care and her kids and the baby sitter's money.  The Romney’s probably had an upstairs freakin’ maid for all we know.   What are you apologizing for? 

Isn’t this right in our wheelhouse; the out of touch patrician Romneys clumsily trying to appeal to every day 99% blue collar voters?  This is so typical of the democrats, who can’t seem to throw a punch even as they are getting stomped to death, and then when to do get in a crisp, left hook that connects they are mortified that they resorted to such tactics and apologize, all while the opponent is getting up and pulling a Crocodile Dundee knife to eviscerate them. 

Obama should, by all rights, be able to beat this guy.  And if he does – in the face of the most disloyal opposition in the country’s history – it would be an historic achievement.   I get the feeling he knows enough not to bring a knife to a gun fight and I trust him – for the most part – to be able to take care of his business.  But Barack – for god’s sake – get some people with some balls on the team.  We don’t want a bunch of stammering nice guys slap-fighting with Karl Rove and the Koch brothers and the rest of these savage dingoes.   They’ll eat your children just like Idi Amin.  You need the democratic equivalent – and I can’t believe I’m saying this – to Newt Gingrich; a half mad bull terrier to chase Mitt right down the god damned driveway and not let him get away with pissing in the flower bed.  I’m kinda busy right now or I’d volunteer for the job myself but call me in August for the stretch run.