Professional Left Podcast Episode 995: The Politics of Pronouns

“ Time moves in one direction, memory in another.“  -- William Gibson, writer

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 994: An Epidemic of Recycled Lies

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.“  -- probably not Mark Twain

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 993: Fools In a Burning House

"Never argue with stupid people, because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."  --  Mark Twain

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And on His Headstone Shall Read These, His Final Words: “...But the Democrats”

Whenever you hear Never Trumpers musing about the good old days of the Before Time, it sounds like something between Greek myth and a road company production of Camelot.   Heroes and giants walking the Earth.  Mighty deeds being done by mighty men.  The snow never slushed upon the hillside, and by 9 p.m. the moonlight was required to appear.

And so forth.

And I'm sure that many of them do remember it that way, seeing as they weren't the ones being slandered and demonized every day by the Conservative Media Hate Machine.   They were, in fact, the ones who were profiting handsomely from the Hate Machine.  But as I warned 20 fucking years ago... 

And yet to build this electoral dynamo the Republican Party has had to completely sell out any vestige of principles or soul it once had for dominion over the divided and bitter land it has created. And because of that, there is no “Plan B” if you are a GOP candidate for national office.

Your Party Masters have burned your bridges and salted the Earth behind you, and now there is nothing left for you to do but desperately tunnel deeper into the Hell you have built for yourself.

Which is why John McCain now publicly grovels and kisses the poxy asses of the men who service and steer the Pretty Hate Machine indifferently past the bodies of the dead and dying of NOLA, and gleefully down the blood-tarred, bone-macadamed streets of Iraq. Men who went right after his family -- his wife and children -- and his honorable national service without a second thought when it suited their despicable purposes.

Because the Pretty Hate Machine does not come with a conscience, and it now casts its depraved shadow over their entire Party.

And over the entire nation that Party has seized.

And over the entire world that Party has polluted.

It has become all Means and no Ends but More Power, and as with all power, it comes with a steep price...

Well, the GOP's 2008 candidate for president, John McCain, is gone now.  His daughter married one of the Hate Machine's operating engineers and has disappeared down the MAGA rat hole.  And his 2008 running mate -- Sarah Palin, the Scintilla from Wasilla, MAGA 1.0 -- had her bullshit libel suit thrown out and was a big, big Trump supporter until he went all AI Jebus and now appears to have joined the crowded field of third tier wingnut influencers slow-fast walking to the pier to look for a lifeboat.  

Safe to say, John McCain's political legacy in is ashes.  

But what of the next sterling man of character that was offered up to the general public as a candidate for president?  Their 2012 candidate, Willard "Mittens" Romney?  

You remember him, right?   

He's the guy who was gonna herd the MAGA mob safely back into the corporate/neocon pen.  I wrote a whole thing about it back when it was a thing ("Hokum's Heroes") whence I salvaged these rare curios from that now nearly-forgotten past.

For now at least Mitt Romney has become the leader of the Republican Resistance to Trump.

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 2, 2019

Watching David Frum explain how Mitt “is setting up rendezvous with destiny” by being the poltroon he’s always been is peak punditry.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 3, 2019

"What Mitt Romney said" was "so profoundly important"

It created "a breaking point from this mind-trap that a lot of Republicans" are in - fmr. RNC Chair @MichaelSteele pic.twitter.com/HM4CmIRFUo

— TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) January 2, 2019

Yeah, it turned out they were just as wrong about Mittens as they were about everything else, which is why after that last, humiliating display of hilarious political naivete, no one ever heard from David Frum, or Bill Kristol, or Michael Steele ever again :-)

"So why bring him up now?" you ask.

Fair question. 

It's because, speaking of things said and done 20 years ago, this week is the 20th anniversary of then-governor Mitt Romney signing Romneycare into law in Massachusetts, and The Bulwark sent Jonathan Cohn to, well, not "interview" him really.  To just nod and transcribe whatever the Great Man said.

And oh my goodness, does Mittens show himself to be every bit the clueless, obsolete, Republican cipher we lefties knew him to be back when all your favorite Never Trumpers were, well, trumpeting his praises and hailing him as the savior of the Republican party.  

A "savior" who has been assembled out of spare parts salvaged from all their previous failures.  Because in the interview, Romney happily parrots just about every MAGA culture war lie on the checklist --

Romney:  I think today it's the culture stupid. I think, my own view is Democrats have staked out some positions -- or a number of Democrats have -- that don't make a lot of sense to everyday Americans. Defund the police.  It's like are you kidding? You think that's going to sell in cities? Defund the police. Uh biological males competing in girl sports. Like that doesn't make any sense at all. uh open borders, people flooding into the country, people saying, "What in the world are you doing?" Democrats were doing some absolutely, in my opinion, just crazy stuff, right?  And that caused a lot of everyday Americans to say, you know, I used to be a Democrat, but I can't put up with that stuff. And they became they became Republicans. And uh and I mean, I think the Democratic Party is in a world of hurt uh in part because of their posture on so many of these social issues.

-- slathered with a big ol' helping "Both Sides Do It".

Romney:  I think both parties have uh have sown the seeds of defeat uh in part by taking some positions which I think are out of the mainstream.

And: 

Romney:  I think at politics maybe more today even than them which is if it's an idea raised by a Republican Republicans like it. If it's idea raised by a Democrat um Republicans hate it and vice you know vice versa. 

And:

Cohn:  And what about the Republican party? Do you feel like that where they are?

Romney:  I mean do you feel like on immigration on there's a lot of policies where people would say, you know, they are extreme in their own way and does that well we're both parties are creating their own problems. 

Romney:  I think what the president did to secure our border is wisely uh done and very popular. I think some of the ICE uh actions throughout Minnesota and other places is seen by people as being unnecessarily brutal um and is and has hurt the president's popularity. Um, so some things I think the president has done that make a lot of sense that are politically attractive. Other things I think are more harmful. I look, I have a list of things where I agree with President Trump and it's a good long list. Then I have a list of things where I disagree with him, but I understand his logic and  say, you know, he may be right, I may be wrong. I'm not right on everything. 

Scary trans males in women's sports?  Check!  "Open borders"?  Check!  "Defund the police"?  Check.

If you want virtually any shitty MAGA talking point repeated by a bland technocrat loser, Romney's your man.  

Because Romney was never the cure for what ails the Trump Republican Party.  

Instead, Romney was just another respectable, Beltway-approved carrier of the disease that made the rise of Trump possible.   

And he still is. 

I Am The Liberal Media

Mitt's Not Here Man

Ronna McDaniel spent years as a sycophant bending the knee to Donald Trump.

Did that matter to the puppet master?

Of course not - he just fired her.

Wow.

— Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeemjeffries) February 7, 2024

Burn The Lifeboats

...With a Whimper

So Mittens von Romney (R-Money) is leaving, but not without one, final, dusty, craven fart of Both Siderism.

President Biden offers feel good solutions that make no difference to the global climate. On China, President Biden under invests in the military and President Trump underinvest in our alliances.”

Political motivations too often impede the solutions that these challenges demand. The next generation of leaders must take America to the next stage of global leadership...

I wrote a lot about Mittens during the 2012 campaign.  His causal jokes about Birtherism.  His "severe" Conservatism.  His abject failure to understand the scope of the Great Recession.  His sucking up to Trump.  His lies about Obamacare.  His lies about Romneycare.  And if he'd been a dressage horse instead of an empty suit, after he stepped on his own dick this hard --

 

-- Romney probably would've needed to be humanely put down.

Which, come to think of it, is pretty much what Barack Obama did.

It's all there for the viewing for any who are curious.  

Instead, I'll just point anyone who is interested here, to this post from 2019.  Hokum's Heroes.  That about sums it up.

Because no matter how hard their heroes fail them, Never Trumpers will never stop mining that mountain of Republican horse shit, looking for that pony.  Even though we all know that, at best, all they'll ever going to find is the political carcass of a dead, dick-stomped dressage show pony.

No Half Measures

Summer Reruns: Hokum's Heroes

The Mittens Von Romney (R-Money) Experience today:

Mitt Romney is setting a Feb. 26, 2024 deadline for Republican presidential candidates to coalesce around an alternative to Donald Trump:

“Our party and our country need a nominee with character, driven by something greater than revenge and ego, preferably from the next… pic.twitter.com/71AQyCo6wZ

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) July 24, 2023

The Mittens Von Romney (R-Money) Experience 5.5 years ago:

The Never Trumpers prove their Conservative credentials by doing that which all Conservatives eventually do:

1. Pretend the past never happened.
2. Look for salvation in a new paint job slapped on the same, old, monstrous ideas.

For now at least Mitt Romney has become the leader of the Republican Resistance to Trump.

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 2, 2019

Watching David Frum explain how Mitt “is setting up rendezvous with destiny” by being the poltroon he’s always been is peak punditry.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 3, 2019

"What Mitt Romney said" was "so profoundly important"

It created "a breaking point from this mind-trap that a lot of Republicans" are in - fmr. RNC Chair @MichaelSteele pic.twitter.com/HM4CmIRFUo

— TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) January 2, 2019

"Mitt Romney, the Enemy of the State, is a role I imagine he never thought he’d play in American political life," writes @TheRickWilson, "but the impact of his words is causing a full-fledged meltdown in the Trump-supporting media apparatus on the right." https://t.co/ulcqdarMxN

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 3, 2019

And unto them this day in the Beltway media, a Republican Savior was (re)born.

Or, rather, assembled out of spare parts salvaged from their previous failures...

Burn The Lifeboats!

No Fair Remembering Stuff: Let Me Sleep On It, Baby, Baby...

I'm sure we all remember where were were a decade ago on this date when Meatloaf bestowed his "meandering" endorsement upon Willard "Mitt" Romney.

It was in all the papers.

From the WaPo:

Meat Loaf endorses Romney in Ohio

 In fact, you're humble scrivener wrote a little song about it.

Ahem.

Wingnut Base: Will you love me forever?

Mittens: Let me sleep on it.

Wingnut Base: Will you love me forever!!!!

Mittens: Let me sleep on it!!

It was a weird time. 

And anyone who had been paying any attention at all, could clearly see the monstrous trajectory the GOP had already been on for decades, how far gone the GOP already was.

I Am The Liberal Media

Say My Name

Listening to Ronna beg for money to save the party she played a starring role in destroying is pretty sweet. https://t.co/PPcMfnTHPb

— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) August 28, 2022

Funny thing is, broke-ass Ronna has an uncle who is not only very wealthy, but very Republican as well.  In fact, he's serving in the U.S. Senate right now and has been know to raise and spend enormous amounts of money on doomed Republican campaigns.   

So it kinda makes one wonder...

Brrring, brrring.

Mitt Romney:  Ahoy-hoy.  New blower. To whom am I speaking?

Ronna:  It's your niece.

Romney:  Is this Madison?

Ronna:  No.

Romney:  Christina?

Ronna:  No.

Romney:  Is this Margo Lynn or maybe Jenn having a bit of sport? 

Ronna:  No.

Romney:  Is this Craig or Matt or Ben or Tagg playing a funny voice trick?

Ronna:  No.

Romney:  Then you've stumped me.  Is this one of those prank phone-calls one hears about in the news?  Are you about to ask me about Prince Albert being trapped in a can or if my SubZero PRO Refrigerator/Freezer is running, which are both very funny jokes, but...

Ronna:  No, Uncle Mitt, this is your niece Ronna, and I need to speak to you about something very important.  

Romney:  Don't seem to remember a "Ronna" in the bunch?  

Ronna:  I'm Ronna.  Ronna McDaniel.  I'm your brother Scott's daughter.  I've been to your house a thousand times.  I'm the Republicans Party's national chair and the party is in deep trouble and needs your help.

Romney: But you're not  Madison?  Christina?

Ronna:  No.

Romney: Then I am very confused.  Why would you, whoever you are, bring your troubles to my door?  

Ronna:  Because I'm the Republicans Party's national chair and you're one of the party's leaders and, frankly, we're out of money and need all the help you can give us raising funds in a hurry or we're going to get creamed in the Fall.

Romney: Language, please, whoever you are.  We do not say "creamed" in this house.  

Ronna:  Sorry.

Romney: And now I'm doubly confused.  You call me up, swearing like a McCain, to ask for money?  I thought the party had plenty of money  Pretty much all of the rich people love us.  Corporations love us.  Didn't we give them two trillion in tax cuts and all the PPP "loans" they asked for?

Ronna:  Yes we did. 

Romney: Then the party should have plenty of money.  That's how this works.  Where did it all go?

Ronna:  Well, we put Rick Scott in charge of the Senate campaign funds and...

Romney: Scott?  You gave that Medicare cheat the Senate checkbook?  

Ronna:  ...and then there's Trump.  

Romney: Language, young lady.  I already warned you once.  We do not say "Trump" in this house.  

Ronna: Sorry.  

Romney: Sounds like quite a pickle.

Ronna [beginning to tear up]: It is.  

Romney: And what did you say your name was? 

Ronna:  I'm Ronna.  Ronna McDaniel. 

Romney:  Is that your full name?

Ronna [gulping hard]:  No 

Romney:  What's your full name?

Ronna:  Ronna Romney McDaniel. 

Romney: Ah.  That rings a bell.  And who am I?

Ronna:  You're the senior senator from Utah.   

Romney: Say my name.  

Ronna is silent.

Romney: I'm the money.  I'm the man you came to to save you from your folly because you've run out of options.  

Ronna is silent.

Romney: Say my name.  

Ronna:   Willard...

Romney: "Senator" Willard.  Say my name.  

Ronna:   Senator Willard...Mitt....Romney.

Romney: You're god damn right!

  

I Am The Liberal Media.

Stop Trying To Make Mitt Romney Happen

It's not going to happen.

A few years ago  I wrote ("Hokum's Heroes") about how Never Trumpers were so horny to find Mighty Heroes in the midden pile of the GOP that they were lining up behind Willard "Mitt" Romney (R-Money) as the "leader of the Republican Resistance to Trump" (Bill Kristol) who was "setting up rendezvous with destiny" (David Frum) in order to smash through the "Trump-supporting media apparatus on the right" (Rick Wilson) and create "a breaking point from this mind-trap that a lot of Republicans are in" (Michael Steele).

No kidding.  They all got out there and pitched the hell out of the ludicrous idea that Mittens Romney was going to save the GOP from the monster that all these clowns had spent decades working to create.

But instead, Mittens folded, neat and tidy, like an extra pair of magic underwear.  Kept his head down.  Helped pack the Supreme Court with fascist goons.  Voted against voting rights.  All the usual stuff.

However, lurking in the hearts of many Never Trumper there remains the delusion that if the right guy could just...

So once again we find the mainstream media and a senior Never Trumper trying to elevate Mitten's profile.

Powerful piece by ⁦@MittRomney⁩

Mitt Romney: America Is In Denial - The Atlantic https://t.co/koCEt0NNOq

— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) July 4, 2022

Except it not in any way a "Powerful piece".

From The Atlantic:

What accounts for the blithe dismissal of potentially cataclysmic threats? The left thinks the right is at fault for ignoring climate change and the attacks on our political system. The right thinks the left is the problem for ignoring illegal immigration and the national debt. But wishful thinking happens across the political spectrum. More and more, we are a nation in denial.

It is just stale, gray slop composed of pureed leftovers from 1,000 David Brooks columns and 1,000 "Meet the Press" episodes and 1,000 Peggy Noonan wine-soaked Wall Street Journal crying jags.

It is just the one millionth piece of "Both Sides Do It" Beltway media codswallop being passed off as a serious think-piece.

And it is an embarrassment that it comes with Stuart Stevens' endorsement.

Burn The Lifeboats

Mitt Romney, Political Hoarder

Today we find Mitt Romney, the heroic Leader of the Republican Resistance, once again outing himself as nothing more than the once and future king of Both Siderism.

If there is one strand of political DNA that binds virtually all Never Trumpers together, it is their reflexive Both Siderism.  Their almost pathological refusal to acknowledge what their party has become right under their noses without automatically absolving themselves of any involvement in its devolution while simultaneously accusing Democrats of somehow being equally to blame.

Which is why, if you want to understand the mindset of behind Mitt Romney's Poltroon Manifesto, put down your college Poli Sci textbook and fire up a couple of episodes of Hoarders.

Because that is what Never Trumpers like Romney are.  Political hoarders living inside the sarcophagus of their dead ideology.  From some asshole blogger a long, long time ago:

This darkness comes with a promise and a catch: the promise is, that the Right will never, ever be called to account for the endless lies they have told and endless betrayals they have committed; the catch is that they can never leave, and no matter how repellent their neighbors become and no matter how humiliating and horrifying the lies become, they are obliged to shut up and go along with the program. With this promise comes the terrible, goosestepping power of a mob under harness, but with it also comes a grotesque fragility because to keep the darkness alive the Right has become a confederacy of Mrs. Havishams, rotting away in the gloom.

And to make matters much, much worse, their decaying mansion sits on top of such a massive, leaky stockpile of lie upon lie, betrayal upon betrayal, hypocrisy upon hypocrisy and treason upon treason that the danger of one, stray non-Fox Approved fact accidentally glancing off another non-Fox and sparking off a conflagration is omnipresent.

The entire Conservative enterprise is built on delusion and old dynamite, which is why every clock much forever remain stopped at one minute after Reagan's inauguration, every fact must be smothered under the stasis field of Rush Limbaugh roaring, rage-drunk bluster...

And there, in the center of the gloom, sit Never Trumpers like Mitt Romney, weeping because how can they possibly give up the piles and piles of moldering "Party of Personal Responsibility" propaganda heaped in the corners like sepia snowdrifts, and about which they still want to feel so very proud?  

How can you ask them to chuck their collection of the rat-chewed issues of The National Review (1967-1988) which seems to have evolved into a load-bearing structure over the years?

Or the hundreds of empty tissue boxes, poorly preserved from the glory days of Robert Bork --  half marked "J" when their contents were used to mop up after the circle-jerk celebrating his nomination and half marked "T" for the rivers of tears that had to be dried after the Democrats committed the Greatest Crime In American History?

Or the 1,000 autographed copies of 1961's wingnut chart-topper, "Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine" which might be old and cracked and unplayable, but still!   

And what about that entire room packed floor to ceiling with "Fiscal Responsibility" detritus, including Paul Ryan's budgets and, judging by the smell, the mortal remains of Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson will be found somewhere under the heap.

And on and on and on.  Decomposing mountain ranges of Conservatism's bold lies and broken promises stretching as far as the eye can see.  How can any True Conservative just leave all that behind?

Well, unlike the hoarders on Hoarders, no matter how gently they are asked or how dire the warnings about their health and sanity may be, Never Trumpers are incapable of letting the cleaning crews roll dumpsters up to the door and haul out the 99% of their beloved political possessions which are, in fact,  nothing but toxic trash that's stinking up the whole neighborhood.

Instead Never Trumpers like Romney guard their political midden pile as if it were the crown jewels, preferring instead to stand on their lawn and bitch about how the Democrats' house across the street -- a tidy little bungalow that definitely needs a paint job and some tuckpointing -- is just as bad as his own shit-wattled hovel!

Maybe worse!

Next up: Hero of the Resistance Tom Nichols makes exactly the Both Siderist argument, only stupider.  

But for now...

No Half Measures

Hokum's Heroes

The Never Trumpers prove their Conservative credentials by doing that which all Conservatives eventually do:

1. Pretend the past never happened.
2. Look for salvation in a new paint job slapped on the same, old, monstrous ideas.

For now at least Mitt Romney has become the leader of the Republican Resistance to Trump.

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 2, 2019

Watching David Frum explain how Mitt “is setting up rendezvous with destiny” by being the poltroon he’s always been is peak punditry.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 3, 2019

"What Mitt Romney said" was "so profoundly important"

It created "a breaking point from this mind-trap that a lot of Republicans" are in - fmr. RNC Chair @MichaelSteele pic.twitter.com/HM4CmIRFUo

— TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) January 2, 2019

"Mitt Romney, the Enemy of the State, is a role I imagine he never thought he’d play in American political life," writes @TheRickWilson, "but the impact of his words is causing a full-fledged meltdown in the Trump-supporting media apparatus on the right." https://t.co/ulcqdarMxN

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 3, 2019

And unto them this day in the Beltway media, a Republican Savior was born.

Or, rather, assembled out of spare parts salvaged from their previous failures...

Behold, a Tip Jar!

First, Why Don't You Do "The Worm" For Me In Your Magic Underwear

Then we'll talk about me maybe giving you a job.

Judges would have also accepted:

"You've got this, right Mitt?  What with you being so rich and all.  Bwahahaha!"

"Kellyanne will be along in a minute with a 'to go' box for your balls."

"You keep talking about wanting to be my Secretary but you haven't shown me your tits yet."

And, of course:

Help Me, Obi-Wan Mittromney. You're My Only Hope.

The tiny, hysterical hologram of Jennifer Rubin appears on the kitchen table where the Romneys are each enjoying a refreshing glass of orange juice.

"Mitt," hologram Jennifer Rubin wheedles, "I don't want to hear any more excuses."

From the Washington Post:

Romney has no more excuses

By Jennifer Rubin May 26 at 11:55 AM

See?  What'd I tell you.

Hologram Jennifer Rubin explains how Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both exactly, equally unfit for The Highest Office In The Land:

Like dinner guests in a murder mystery, potential candidates for a third-party run for president have disappeared one by one. Their reticence to run seems inversely proportionate to the growing need for an alternative to Hillary Clinton (who cannot be counted on to follow clearly articulated rules designed to protect national security nor to tell a straight story when caught) and to Donald Trump, who seems less fit to serve with each outburst, new conspiracy theory and lie.

Without a center-right alternative, America, at a critical juncture, will be stuck with one of two exceptionally flawed candidates, either one of which would easily make the Top 10 in the list of “worst nominees of a major party.”
...

To be blunt, anyone able to articulate a complete sentence, have a working understanding of the Constitution and major policy issues and not be a complete scoundrel would be an improvement over the two major party nominees. Romney is a composite of Albert Schweitzer and Winston Churchill compared with Trump or Clinton.

"Should we offer it some orange juice or something?" Ann Romney whispers to Mittens.

Mittens shakes his head.

"No more excuses, Mitt!" hologram Jennifer Rubin exhorts.

Romney reportedly is exceptionally reluctant, maybe even firmly opposed to a run. With each passing week, however, his reasons for not running evaporate.

"This is our most desperate hour," hologram Jennifer Rubin concludes. "Help me, Obi-Wan Mittromney. You're my only hope."

Romney may have other concerns about a presidential run, but given how serious the challenges the country faces are and how dismal the current choice for president is, do those concerns really override the opportunity to rescue the country from the dreaded Clinton vs. Trump face-off?

Hologram Jennifer Rubin vanishes.  Once again the Romney household is quiet.

Ann Romney looks around the kitchen.

"Who the hell is Jennifer Rubin?" she asks.

"I haven't the slightest idea," Mittens replies.

The R-1000

Indestructible because it's made of liquid money.

Romney to GOP donors: ‘I want to be president.’

Live By The Etch-a-Sketch

Die by the Etch-a-Sketch.

Fading...fading...fading...

Boardwalk Umpire

..and it's partner found, it's partner lost  

and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops...

Merchandise By The Dashboard Lights

From the WaPo:

Meat Loaf endorses Romney in Ohio
Posted by Philip Rucker on October 25, 2012 at 10:24 pm

DEFIANCE, Ohio – Meat Loaf bestowed a meandering endorsement upon Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney here Thursday night, making what the hard rock icon said was his first move on the political stage.

The singer, who rose to fame in the 1970s with his power ballads, performed a short concert at a high school football stadium in Defiance to rally some 12,000 supporters before Romney came on stage to give a speech.

Meat Loaf performed a few songs familiar to his most devoted fans; his most famous hit, “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” didn’t make the cut. And then, with dramatic flair and wearing a sparkly black ensemble, explained why he was getting behind Romney’s candidacy.
...

Wingnut Base: Will you love me forever?

Mittens: Let me sleep on it.

Wingnut Base: Will you love me forever!!!!

Mittens: Let me sleep on it!!

I think we all remember how this ends...

All That Debate Prep With Bloody Bill Kristol

Down the drain.

Magic boats that go under the water?

Who could have seen that coming?

Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide

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