We cats are ready to play a new game: "Where's Willard?"
That's because since his March 3 excoriation of Donald Trump — a speech in which he called the GOP front-runner a "phony" and a "fraud" — Willard Mitt Romney is suddenly nowhere to be found.
Oh, he appeared on late-night TV the other day to do a deadpan reading of a few mean Trump tweets. But since The Donald's rallies have started exploding in violence, the 2012 Republican nominee has gone completely silent.
Then again, that's hardly novel in what passes today for the Party of Lincoln. Only Baby Marco Rubio and John Kasich have expressed any qualms about supporting Trump for the nomination since the events in St. Louis and Chicago took place, and they were pretty mealy-mouthed about it at that (especially Baby Marco). Rafael Cruz, Jr., on the other hand, wavered on the question not at all.
Meanwhile, the so-called Republican establishment, from Rancid Pieface to Speaker Ryan to Majority Leader McConnell, has nothing to say about the fact that their leading candidate's rallies are starting to look like the "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" sequence from the musical "Cabaret."
Aside from its leaders in Congress, who is the titular head of the GOP until the convention in Cleveland? We cats think that would be their most recent nominee. And if what Willard had to say on March 3 was so important — if his party's future was so much at stake —and if Trump's impact on the country was going to be so profound — why isn't Romney leading the Republicans in screams of outrage now?
Two possible answers: Either Willard Mitt Romney thinks the GOP should still try to squeak into power with a fascist demagogue at its helm, or Willard Mitt Romney is not outraged at all. Neither is very attractive, is it? We cats are so glad we're us and not them. That makes us PURR.
UPDATE: It looks like we cats have shamed Willard into stepping back into the spotlight: He's campaigning with John Kasich today — but not endorsing. Republicans are so weird.
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