Romney, Rebuked

By Baxter

Willard "Mitt" Romney richly deserved the smackdown that the President of the United States gave him today.

Not just because we should all kinda leave the Neville Chamberlain and Nazi Germany and World War II references behind. But because Willard Mitt Romney is a privileged, inauthentic, finger-in-the-wind know-nothing whose foreign policy credentials are nil.

Romney has also been lucky, in that he's a member of the whackiest, most off-the-wall gang of clownish Presidential wannabes in American history. Since his Republican primary rivals are completely laughable, and he only partly so, he so far has escaped most of the worst ridicule. But make no mistake: Mitt Romney is a pantaloon, too. Only a fool would drive to Canada with the family dog strapped to the roof of the car, and only an idiot would say what Romney said about appeasement yesterday.

So, let's take a moment and give the neglected scaramouche from Michigan a little of the contemptuous attention he deserves. Take Romney's reaction on Tuesday to Newt Gingrich's surging poll numbers. "We're just starting!" he sputtered. "We're just getting up with ads. You'll see me campaigning aggressively... blah blah blah."

Pretty funny stuff, coming from a guy who's been waging this campaign for about eight years. If Romney is "just starting," when is he really running for President? In 2020?

Well, never mind. We're sure that the coming days and weeks hold even more amusement for us. For example, Romney's Super PAC has just dropped $3.1 million on ads in Iowa for the January 3 caucuses.

We bet his numbers don't go up. In fact, we bet they go down.

We cats PURR.