Scott Galupo has a column in the American Conservative whose brevity is matched by its brutality. I’m probably quoting too much, but:
[Romney] combines Bill Clinton’s mendacity with Al Gore’s charm. . . . A candidate who promises to close the deficit but whose budget plan will only make it worse? A candidate who’s pushing for yet more tax cuts for the wealthy when there’s no evidence that such cuts will spark more or faster growth than they did the last time they were tried? A candidate who compensates for ignorance on foreign policy with pointless bellicosity? A candidate whose general-election victory would at least marginally increase the chances of war with Iran?
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The choice between Obama and Romney is no choice at all. It can be summed up in that famous two-word review of Spinal Tap’s Shark Sandwich album.
The Spinal Tap reference is perhaps more apt than he intended. A related joke is that “life is like a shit sandwich, the more bread you have, the better it tastes.” Near as I can tell, that’s Romney’s economic plan in a nutshell.
A darn good assessment. But why not combination of Richard Nixon’s mendacity with Ronald Reagan’s charm, and a slight dose of Newt Gingrich’s vacuous glibness.
There is a another read on the sanwchich methaphor. The more bread you have, the less S**t you have to eat. Romney has never had to consume a bit of his own.
Yep- the only difference between the two is one offers more bread. Or maybe more interesting bread.