Mitt Romney strides mightly across the world stage, trips and falls on his face...

The grim black clouds that have been gathering over the Romney campaign ever since his convention -and what had to be a surprising media consensus that they came off as a bunch of ambitious, opportunistic liars - suddenly started pissing down rain this week as Mitt shoved both expensive loafers into his mouth with his preposterous reaction to the attack on the US embassy in Libya.  Just today I watched a number of heretofore Romney-leaning pundits who sound ready to wash their hands of the vacuous bastard and begin their planning for Jeb Bush in 2016.  Huzzah!!!  Nicely played, Mitt.  You and Karl Rove can now look forward to long winter nights amongst the fine leather and wood paneling in your New Hampshire vacation home, staring sullenly into the fire and pounding the 20 year old scotch while asking yourselves a series of tough questions, starting with WTF.

 David Brooks, syndicated columnist for the New York Times, thought to be a sober, intelligent man – a voice of reason in the conservative movement – was on Charlie Rose the other night bemoaning Romney’s thoughtless response and ill-conceived press conference – the one that left the press corp who follow him open-mouthed in disbelief.  Laura Ingraham, the snarky radio talk-show host and someone who apparently is part of the republican intelligentsia – commenting on the Romney blunders, suggested disbanding the party if they can’t beat Obama in this election.

Mitt, even Faux News is pissing on your shoes in frustration at your venal and self-serving yammering in the face of a national tragedy.  You don’t even have the good sense to understand the political protocol and hold your fire for 24 hours.   You come off like Sarah Palin with a penis.  

Of course, he had his defenders; Rush Blowhard blustered through his radio show repeating “he’s right, he’s right”, evidently drunk on the republican strategy of the endlessly repeated lie.  Bill Kristol, intellectual godfather of the modern republican party also followed this course, while notorious bleach-blonde, bony-assed skank, Ann Colter, embellished this line a bit by saying the media’s focus on Romney’s venality only served to prove he was right, thus hitting two favorite republican birds with one stone.

Watching Mitt stammer through the next day, after someone apparently told him what an ass he made of himself, was hilarious.   Now the trick for Democrats – and they’re not good at this – is, don’t get cocky, keep your eye on the ball, watch out for the voter suppression governors and other duplicitous members of Mitt’s shadowy cabal because surely to god they are not going to give up the fight even if they have given up on him.   He should be thankful Obama is black; without the closeted KKK vote Romney would be sitting at the bar in the Salt Lake City Hilton swilling gin and writing his concession speech.

Rick Scott in Florida is doubling down on his attempt to suppress the vote there in such a way as he should be in jail, not the governor’s office in Tallahassee and in spite of a court ruling against all such moves.  Pennsylvania and Ohio are deeply enmeshed in voter suppression efforts.  The Secretary of State in Kansas, totally off his meds, went full-on birther and threatened to keep Obama off the ballot, thereby negating the need for more conventional voter suppression.    I take this to be a good sign – here’s why;

Now in addition to trying to defend their incoherent domestic agenda of unsustainable tax cuts, increased defense spending, laissez-faire environmental and regulatory policy and eat-the-poor social policy, they have to set a back fire to protect their flank from the altogether reasonable perception that their candidate is a dangerous lunatic on the world stage  and more likely to blunder into world war III than do anything constructive to advance our interests and make the world safe for democracy.  What do they have left?  The only thing they can point to is that Romney isn’t Obama and while that may resonate with some of the knuckle-draggers and tin-foil hat crowd around the country it's likely not enough to carry the day and get 270 electoral votes.   So they have to amp-up the fraud, theft and treason wing of the party to salvage what they can. 

I suspect that little insect, Karl Rove, had a contingency plan all along.  If Romney pukes on himself focus on retaining a majority in the House and continue to hump Obama’s leg for another four years, hoping that the country is still wobbling on its axis in 2016 when another Bush can ride to the rescue and begin the New Republican Century – albeit, somewhat delayed.

Either way he wins – he continues to be the most notorious pimp in the biggest El Dorado and the right-wing world will still revolve around him.  That’s tragic for the last tattered vestiges of the former party of Lincoln, as the disenchanted moderates will continue to leave the party until all that’s left is an ungainly Ork army of delusional drones pinning for a country that was left behind 75 years ago.  Hey Karl – bitterness and anger are mighty motivational forces but eventually bitter and angry people just fall over dead and we’re all better off without them.   And if Obama and the democrats can’t govern successfully – and the jury is definitely still out about that – so be it.  I hear Tom Friedman has been hinting around about a third party – maybe 2016 is the year.