We cats nominate Willard Mitt Romney for The Washington Post's upcoming "Worst Week in Washington" award. Honestly, even though Willard is technically not in Washington, nobody else this week comes close. But while we wait to see, here are some additional observations on the train wreck his week has become.
Trying to hold a moment of silence for the diplomats whose deaths he'd previously exploited, Willard was heckled during a campaign appearance in Virginia yesterday: "Why are you politicizing Libya?" Faced with the yelling, Romney gave up on the silence but said, "What a tragedy to lose such a wonderful, wonderful, uh, wonderful people that have been so wonderful."
Meanwhile, the Romneybots continue their absurd line of attack on foreign policy. But Romney has still failed to go out of his way to criticize the anti-Islamic video that's causing most of the fuss. How can he not, when he himself is a member of a much-maligned religion?
Speaking of Mormons, Cutie-Pie Jon Huntsman — who has a ton more foreign-policy experience than Silly Willy — joined his fellow Republicans in blasting the party nominee.
"I don't know what Governor Romney is proposing [about the Mideast] at this point," he said. "“I thought this was a perfect opportunity for the Romney campaign to step up, and begin, not through immediate criticism, but begin to articulate their vision for the Middle East... That’s what the American people want to hear. I think they’ve heard enough of the finger-pointing, the criticisms, the anger. It's kind of a problem." (Sigh. Jon's so cute.)
Peggy Noonan said that, frowning through his awful press conference on Wednesday, Romney looked "like Richard Nixon."
And wow, in an interview with ABC on Thursday, Willard so revealed his inner weenie that he made George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis look like manly men. When presented with President Obama's assessment that he "has a tendency to shoot first, aim later," Willard refused to fight back. "Well, this is politics," he said. "I'm not going to worry about the campaign."
We cats hope that someone will explain what the heck that means. But we're glad Willard isn't fretting —because when it comes to his campaign, he has plenty to worry about.
UPDATE, September 14: The results for the "Worst Week" are in — and Willard wins! More later.
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