"Guess which grandchild heard that Papa might run again?" goes the ersatz we're-just-folks caption (above) on the front of a Christmas card from "The Romney Family" that just came in over the transom. Inside is another photo of the whole clan with a traditional "Merry Christmas" message. But flip it over and you get this:
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No candidate or candidate's committee to see here. Just those cute grandkids talkin' 'bout Papa Romney. We can't help but think that Governor Romney's handlers have been monitoring Sarah Palin's ongoing, energetic embrace of the full panoply of media, old and new — most recently the riveting "Sarah Palin's Alaska" — and mistaking the trees for the forest, or something like that. A family photo against an expansive All-American landscape doesn't do it. There has to be something behind the pretty picture. Bottom line, Papa Romney, you ain't no Papa Grizzly.
Check out the Boston Globe's token conservative columnist, our own Jeff Jacoby, for a reminder of the former Massachusetts governor's credibility problem, "The great RomneyCare denial." It's the authenticity, stupid.
Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.
If only we could find people to elect who were not politicians.
Posted by: goomp | December 20, 2010 at 07:53 PM
Shhh! It could be Mitt!
Why are all these fools trying to push this clown on America again?
He must be about as popular as the black plague was in Europe!
Posted by: Coastal Eddie | December 20, 2010 at 09:47 PM
Reminds me of the POW bracelet thing a couple of years back.
Posted by: steveeas | December 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM
His lookalike Mike Pence is another darling of the GOP establishment! They don't learn. They need to be whacked on the head with my cast iron frying pan to get the message that we want SARAH or someone like her - not same old, same old. OR Mitt Romney Lite or John McCain Lite or whatever in hell they have in mind! Maybe I'll send my beloved Rusty after the GOP bigwigs! He can chirp an indelible message on their ankles!
Posted by: Gayle Miller | December 22, 2010 at 09:02 AM
What was that Gallagher line? "Oh, good. His @!(# works. Got tired of #^((ing her and wants to start on us."
The atrocity Romney foisted on Massachusetts ought to yell you all you need to know about this RINO. Family pictures notwithstanding.
Posted by: Mark Alger | December 22, 2010 at 03:11 PM