There are those who say that Bob Somerby’s obsessive focus on the War On Gore is overdone, but I think Elias Isquith might have a point here:
An underrated aspect of what will be the 2012 election is the fact that, just as they hated Al Gore in 2000, the national political press hates Mitt Romney. For a taste of what, in some bizarro alternative universe, a right-wing Bob Somerby will for years be obsessively blogging about as soon as the polls close this November, check this brutal Dana Milbank column, “Mitt Romney out of control”:
[….]The press’s romance with President Obama may have soured with the years; but I don’t think any opposing candidate — not even the Goracle — would come out on the losing end of a media war with Mitt Romney. The contempt these supposedly savvy insiders hold for the Troy McClure of American politics is just too, too overwhelming.
I guess I’m skeptical overall, though — the glowing coverage of the Romney kids isa case in point.
Corner Stone
Why do you think he had Grumpy McCain do that presser?
Pretty soon we’ll be seeing Romney BBQ’s and cocktail weenie events and they’ll all start fellating him.
Don’t tell me they’re going to be neutral this election campaign.
barath
They tell me that the classics never go out of style, but they do.
(Sorry, listening to The Shape of Punk to Come…)
We’ll be hearing about how moderate and reasonable Mitt is in short order, and how he didn’t mean all that stuff he said in the primaries.
Aimai
Pure wishful thinking. They savaged gore because he was a democrat and they wanted to see a republican back in the white house. They will throw themselves at romneys feet in no time flat for the same reason. These guys aren’t paid to have authentic feelings about anyone–if it interferes with republican rule.
Cat Lady
Mitt doesn’t smoke, drink, swear, womanize or do any other thing that all the press who will be following him does, and that’s going to get really really old and they’re going to get really really cranky. He’s going to be the most boring unlikeable sanctimonious stiff the campaigning world has ever seen, and there isn’t enough fluffing in the world to make those dead eyes of his look human.
ruemara
Please. They never had a “romance with Obama” and they never met a Republican stooge they would not kowtow to.
Yutsano
@barath:
What does Willard have to say to get you to vote for him for President today? The real issue Willard has is all of this stuff is OUT THERE. Every time he makes a point, all it takes is a clip of him saying something completely the opposite and he melts down. Because the truth is he’s so polished he can’t improvise.
I’m not sure it matters. Some Democratic PAC will hammer the tax return issue to death. It will be rather easy to make Mittens look like a rich elitist. Because, well, he is.
huckster
Hell, even the GOP doesn’t like him.
dogwood
Sorry, but those boring stories about the little mitsters sharing milkshakes aren’t going to do much for Romney. If liberal bloggers didn’t whine about them they wouldn’t get any notice. Stories like the Milbank one however, have some legs because they are fun to read and talk about, post on blogs, and facebook pages. During the campaign, reporters have to write about these characters every day. Of course they’ll be some fluffing of Mitt, but that crap will be as boring as he is. Somerby makes good points about the coverage of Gore, but there were nice stories written about him an Tipper as well.
Samara Morgan
Did you miss IsQueef’s post on why the blah people lack social mobility?
still searching for that BJ glibertarian hookup, DougJ?
Isquith is not gunna give you that reacharound you crave.
he godwinned you.
barath
@Yutsano:
The media won’t have to bring him up – they’ll bring Obama down (with GOP super PAC help). I see this as a repeat of Bush v. Gore. Not in the sense of the candidates, but in the sense that we’ll be told by everyone (first by folks like Greenwald, and next by mainstream liberal voices) that there’s no difference between Romney and Obama and the election doesn’t matter. Partisans will still support their candidates, but independents will be disillusioned. Then the job of the GOP is just to pull out a squeaker in a few swing states.
That’s why I think the most valuable thing to do with our donations is to fund massive voter registration drives (and later GOTV) among minority voters in swing states. That and voter ID law education drives. Anyone know of an organization doing that work now that ACORN is defunct?
Davis X. Machina
Rubbish, Washington, in Josh Marshall’s memorable phrase, remains wired for Republicans.
Case in point, Steve Clemons calling upon the Obama administration to draw upon Don Rumsfeld’s expertise in managing a (slightly) shrinking Pentagon.
Off Colfax
Media coverage of children != media coverage of candidates.
Aside from actual scandals (See Jenna Bush), the mainstream media actually does cover the children of candidates with an easy and light tough. Please note the use of mainstream. Fox doesn’t count as mainstream.
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
If a small minority of people on here didn’t wake up at dawn to watch the last Krazy Kreme Klown debate this morning, y’all can watch the freak and loser fapathon here:
http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012/01/gop-meet-the-press-debate-this-morning-on-nbc-at-9am-et/
dogwood
@Aimai:
These people are paid to get page views and viewers for their cable news shows. I really don’t think there will be much of a payoff for writing endless stories about the clean-cut Romney’s sharing milkshakes, or the moderate Romney who will be a great president. The man is a tone-deaf bore; he’s completely uninteresting as a human being.
Violet
No one seems to like Mitt Romney. No one. And he’s boring, so it’s not like even if you don’t like him there might be some entertainment there.
I see the press getting tired of Romney’s schtick pretty quickly.
IM
I still think the media will support Romney.
He is a neoliberal – cut the tax, slash the entitlement, deregulate – so on economics they have the same position.
He likes war, military spending, nationalistic rhetoric – quite like the Wapo etc.
On social issue, there most media is vaguely liberal, he is conservative. But because of his position-changes, they think Romney like them thinks all this religion and values is just a good instrument to keep the lower classes in check. This straussian model of morals only to fool the rabble, not to be applied to the right people, the media can live with.
Just wait until the wapo, the financial times and the economist endorse him and slate and tnr write articles why he isn’t so bad.
They would Huntsman like even more, but so what.
Jonny Scrum-half
I like Somerby’s obsessive focus on what the media did to Gore in the 2000 campaign. It at least keeps that story somewhat alive, in the hope that somehow, some way there will be a general recognition about how toxic the media are in this county. At the time I was one of those who didn’t see much difference between Gore and Bush (except at the time I was a Republican, and wanted Bush to win), but in retrospect that was completely wrong, at least with respect to the Iraq war.
The fact that the media effectively swung a Presidential election is something that needs to be relentlessly (and obsessively) publicized, rather than being ignored, as it has been.
Mike G
Romney is like your corporate boss — another plastic MBA molded in the corporate image, completely devoid of originality or personality, every word and action calculated and market-tested, all humanity subsumed to his ambition.
Gravenstone
@Yutsano:
A sincere promise to commit seppuku rather than the oath of office during the inauguration would be a nice start.
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
I just want to see the press ask Romney one question:
eemom
Oh stop with the Chicken Littling, people. 2012 ain’t 2000, Somerby IS in fact an obsessed lunatic, and EVERYBODY fucking hates Romney.
dogwood
@IM:
They may very well support him, but humanizing him is another story.
Violet
@Mike G:
Exactly. It’s easy not to like Romney. He’s the guy in the corner office who fired you and hundreds or thousands of your co-workers, shut the division or factory, which significantly impacted your community, and walked away with a golden parachute worth millions. THAT is his narrative and it’s easy to remember because he looks the part and it’s true.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
You forced me to go read Nick Kristoff’s column from Friday, “Waiting for Mitt the Moderate”. Isn’t was’t the full-on Broderist rehabilitation that a couple of blogs had said, but it was hoping for a Romney who wouldn’t want a second term or any dealings with the GOP in congress. I expect Friedman to write the same column several times over the next few months, only much more hopeful and putting much more faith in Romney’s ‘fundamental sanity and decency’, or some such nonsense. If such a bet could be placed, I’d be willing to put a healthy sum on the Washington Post endorsing Romney in the general.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson: LOL
dogwood
@eemom:
People who want to blame the press for Al Gore’s loss never want to face the fact that he wasn’t a very good candidate or campaigner. I understand fully that there are many Democrats who absolutely love Al Gore, but that’s not enough to win an election. The fact the during the 3 presidential debates of the 2000 election 3 different Al Gore’s showed up in terms of persona, is still one of the weirdest things I’ve seen in presidential politics.
Under the Aurora Freeway
Mitt Romney’s idiot sons are poster children for the message of the Occupy movement.
eemom
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I’m sorry, but you’d lose your money. Suck as it does 99% of the time, the WaPo actually is quite sane and reasonable in political endorsements. They absolutely will endorse Obama.
Corner Stone
People who believe the media will be bored with Romney are in for a bit of a wake up call, to borrow a bad phrase.
They don’t hate him, they don’t dislike him, they don’t care about him.
He will be the R nominee and they will pay their bills writing fluff pieces about him and his very white family.
FYWP
harlana
nope, not gonna do it. you can’t make me read it.
eemom
@dogwood:
plus, there are so many ways in which this is an entirely different world from 2000 — not the least of which is the fact that there WAS a 2000.
Nobody except the asshole Greenwalds of the world is buying the “no difference” shit anymore.
barath
Just thought I’d ask my question from above more clearly:
Does anyone know of a voter registration organization that works in minority communities (particularly in swing states) that we can donate to?
ACORN is gone, and I don’t know of others like it. With the voter ID laws, we’re going to have to step up the registration, education, and GOTV to compensate. I’m sure the campaign will be working on it, but targeting this may make a big difference.
cokane
DOWN WITH PISSBURG
DanF
Mitt flubbed the BCS Championship last night. If the media hates him, they’ll savage him as an effet out of touch elite. Won’t hold my breath.
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
@DanF:
Sorry, but that was Newt.
dogwood
@Corner Stone:
Yeah, because stories about sharing milkshakes, and hunting small varmits are what really sells newspapers.
harlana
Mitt really does remind me of a few guys I’ve worked for in the past, in one way or another. So I don’t have this visceral reaction to him, you just know exactly where these guys are coming from, accept it and watch your back.
Nellcote
The msm refuses to call Willard out on his multiple daily lies now. Why would that change?
Special Patrol Group
@Yutsano:
I AM THE GOD OF HELL FIRE!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@barath: The Urban League comes to mind? NAACP? Every donation to Operation PUSH makes George Will and Pat Buchanan cry.
Violet
@barath:
The 1911 United Super PAC is organizing minority voters in swing states to support Obama. I think they’re going to focus on registration.
Special Patrol Group
@Yutsano:
Fuck the Pope!
barath
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
@Violet:
Great. I’ll check them out. Hopefully we can get some donations headed their way from here and other sites.
Nellcote
@barath:
check this new group out:
http://www.1911united.com/
Corner Stone
@dogwood: You’ll read what they tell you to read, and you’ll fucking like it.
YellowJournalism
“Hi, I’m Mitt Romney! You might remember me from such political events like Election ’94, Election 2000, the 2012 Republican Debates: Search for NotRomney, and such family friendly films as ‘National Buffoons’ Republican Vacation’ and ‘It’s a Wonderful Life If You’re Rich and White Like Me.'”
Shawn in ShowMe
@eemom:
Absolutely. Twelve years is too soon for the movie-going public to accept a remake. Especially with
Brandon Rouththe equally stiff Romneybot donning the red and blues.Lojasmo
@barath:
1911 united.
http://www.angryblacklady.com/2012/01/07/united-black-fraternities-form-superpac-to-relect-barack-obama/
barath
@Nellcote:
So looking at the site a bit, it’s not clear that voter registration will be the primary place they spend their money. I know, maybe it’s too much to ask for to focus on just voter reg / GOTV, but I think it may be the cheapest and most crucial approach. I’m reminded that Obama’s voter registration campaign in 1992 may have tipped the balance in the Illinois senate race that year.
Lojasmo
Beaten! Also, FYWP for eating the edit function again!
Davis X. Machina
@eemom: You’ve not seen here, or here, lately? Or here? And that’s before Jon Stewart starts up.
Citizen_X
1. Adopt Ron Paul’s positions on the MIC.
2. Adopt Ron Paul’s positions on the war on drugs.
3. Say, “I can sure as hell afford to pay a little bit more taxes,” and promise to end the Bush tax cuts for the rich.
4. Say, “Romneycare? FUCK YEAH I CAME UP WITH ROMNEYCARE,” and promise to expand and strengthen the ACA.
5. Say that Dodd-Frank needs to be made a lot stronger to keep the financial industry in check.
In other words, 5 things that will never happen.
dogwood
@Nellcote:
Because his opponents aren’t calling him out. In a month or so that will change a bit. The media no longer serves as an independent agency in politics. They just provide a forum for candidates and politicians to say whatever the hell they want to. None of the republicans have challenged Romney on his lying so the press keeps quiet. You’ll notice even with the President, the press doesn’t hit him directly, but will rather say something like “Mr. President, John McCain says . . . . , What is your reaction?” The press are mostly lazy assed cowards.
Special Patrol Group
@Yutsano:
“All y’all dumb motherfuckers don’t even know my opinion on shit!”
barath
@Yutsano:
He’d have to say that we’ve reached the Limits to growth and peak oil, that economic growth is over, and we’re going to increase taxes on the wealthy on the way down to compensate to shield everyone else from the severe impacts of our economic decline. Along with that, we’ll invest in public transit systems nationwide and renewable energy to run those public transit systems.
Basically, he’d have to adopt Jimmy Carter’s plans.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@efgoldman: I would hope so. I do get the sense that Mittster’s sense of entitlement is even more evident than Dumbya’s. When Shrub told an audience of the faithful that a woman working three jobs was “uniquely American”, he thought he was identifying with and celebrating the American work ethic, and somehow managed to sell that to a lot of people. When WIllard says anyone who needs a paycheck oughtn’t to muddy up politics with their presence, he’s so purely and obliviously country-club that I can’t imagine it won’t hurt him at some point. But who the fuck knows what the American electorate will do?
Yutsano
@Citizen_X: Mitt hasn’t made it out of the primaries yet. Still tons of flopping yet to occur.
srv
The Mainstream Media replaced their bromance with Commander Codpiece with the Rockefeller from Chicago. Romney will receive the benefit of all their Brooksian attentions after the obviously crazy fall by the wayside.
Schlemizel
@dogwood:
Thats funny because that is exactly the media presented the debates but it does not match my impression after watching all three. Maybe Somerby is on to something
dogwood
Who’s actually running the Romney campaign anyway? The guy has essentially been running for office for 20 years and whoever is in charge and those who are part of every candidate’s loyal inner circle sure don’t appear very competent at turning massive amounts of money into votes.
Dr. Loveless
@MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson:
Is this testing whether Romney is a Republican or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard?
Shawn in ShowMe
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Since the advent of television, the public has gone for the the guy who wins the alphamale battle. Then Obama came along and broke the rule.
In the case of a tie (Ford/Carter), they go for the bright new shiny object.
Nellcote
@dogwood:
Willard is lying about The Prez. I wouldn’t expect his opponents to call him out about that.
MikeJ
@Dr. Loveless: ON a halfway serious note, everybody knows Mitt is robotic. That being the case, how long until the right wing noise machine starts calling Obama robotic? Remember when they ran a guy who had been a POW in southeast Asia and called Obama a Manchurian Candidate? Or 2004 when they called a war hero a coward?
dogwood
@Schlemizel:
Sorry, I watched the debates and found Gore’s changing persona to be very obvious and often cringeworthy. You are certainly entitled to your own impressions, and I wouldn’t doubt them or question their sincerity. I would only expect that you accept the honesty of my impression rather than assume my opinion came from the media.
Kola Noscopy
In what possible way is Somerby’s focus and rehashing of the War On Gore overdone? It can never be reported on enough seeing as how the MSM will never report on it at all.
The press’s War On Gore has far more to do with Gore’s so-called loss to Bush than did Ralph Nader.
dogwood
@Nellcote:
That was my point.
Yutsano
@MikeJ:
The out-of-touch with mainstream America label will get trotted out again. Or how Obama never shows his emotions. Something along those lines.
@dogwood:
Willard doesn’t have campaigners. He has IT staff.
eemom
@Davis X. Machina:
I don’t think the denizens of Digby, Booman or some obscure British site significantly expand the category of “assholes like Greenwald.”
And Jon Stewart is not gonna shill for Romney. He’s not an idiot.
Dave
@MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson:
Close the fucking thread right now. This description will never be topped nor distilled any better than this.
Nellcote
@barath:
I totally agree. I think what you’re looking for may be more localized to the states as the laws vary. Keep an eye on OFA.
slag
Just wait until Romney boldly and courageously picks Sarah Palin, Part II as VP. He’ll be a new man!
WereBear (itouch)
Maybe not working like they think it will. Obama is no longer an unknown quantity; such projections just won’t find traction. While Mitt Romney is a freak of nature; he’s been running for things for twenty years, and there’s STILL no there, there.
Hill Dweller
@barath:
Republicans have made it virtually impossible to conduct large scale registration drives in several states by passing draconian regulations and fines. For example, The League of Women Voters has been registering people in FL for years, but they had to stop because of the new regs Voldemort signed into law. I actually think they are suing the state.
Whenever you hear Republicans say their suppression efforts are about the “integrity of the vote”, ask them how shortening the early voting period and making large scale voter registration drives impossible helps accomplish their purported goal.
Emma
So we’re giving up because the big bad media has it all sown up in favor of Mitt? Is that what I’m hearing? all of a sudden George Stephthroat and David Grinningskull are the more powerful people in the Universe?
I hate to remind you, but whatever else the Obama machine may or may not be, they can eat the media for breakfast. A big part of the Press’ problem is that they know they’re dealing with an incumbent with a great deal of experience at taking his message over their heads and directly to the public. All we need to do is to help that push.
barath
@Nellcote:
Yeah, but I’m wondering who to tell people who might donate but not volunteer to donate to. I’m hoping some voter-registration only organization fills the gap.
ruemara
@Davis X. Machina: I know I and others have said this before, but this is stupid. I don’t need to be excited about voting, I just need to know when, where and for whom. This isn’t dating, movie night or picking a luncheon spot, this is about the direction of this fucking country. So fuck “ennui”. What a collection of morons, to be spouting this overprivileged nonsense.
SenyorDave
@Davis X. Machina: At least most of the comments appear to be along the line of WTF are you thinking? or the only thing Rumsfeld should be consulted about are what color stripes he should be wearing.
Kola Noscopy
@Emma:
Please explain. Has Obama achieved this feat in the past? I thought the Obot default position was that Obama had zero power through the much-mocked power of the Bully Pulpit.
I’m sensing a contradiction in the Obot narrative, and I know that no such contradiction can possibly exist, so please enlighten.
Thank you.
WaterGirl
@barath: I see that Violet has already mentioned the SuperPAC. That was going to be my suggestion, along with the recommendation that you consider posting that question on one of Kay’s threads. If anyone would know, I bet she would.
Edit: Okay, one more suggestion. I believe the SEIU does a lot with voter registration and turnout. I wonder if you contacted them if they would have some ideas for donations or getting involved.
MikeJ
@barath: Have you checked out http://1911united.com/ ?
ETA: I see Violet was 40 comments ahead of me.
Lizzy
Somerby’s point is that the reporting about Gore was dishonest, not simply that the stories were tough. The press attacks on Gore were unfair because they were false, trivial, and based on willful mischaracterizations! That sorry period deserve continued attention because so many in the insider press corps were so shamefully unprofessional, and the result was destructive to the country’s well-being. I don’t think anyone’s sunk to the same level with Romney yet, and I don’t think they will. There’s far to much concentrated financial power behind the Romney juggernaut.
wrb
@Kola Noscopy:
One of the things that I most like about this site is the sweet glimpses of the intimate details of commenters’ lives that seen amid the politics and snark.
Omnes Omnibus
@Kola Noscopy:
Wrong. The “Bully Pulpit” is very limited as a way of moving Congress to pass or change legislation in part because it is a very indirect way of reaching them. As a way of reaching out to voters, it is a different thing; he will be speaking directly to the people he is trying to affect. The “Bully Pulpit” is a tool, and, like any tool, it is most useful when used in the right situation.
Bill Arnold
@eemom:
…is buying the “no difference” shit anymore.
Bill Arnold
@Bill Arnold:
rule #1, always check post after posting and before editing window runs out.
Emma
@Kola Noscopy: You’re an arse. The “bully pulpit” is pretty much useless against a Congress committed to destroying the presidency EVEN AGAINST THE BEST INTERESTS OF THEIR CONSTITUENCY. It’s something else when the President is talking directly to the people. The Obama campaign was very good at it. And you’re about 9 years old right now. Next time I’ll just give you a lollipop instead of taking you seriously.
kth
The wilding of Al Gore by the campaign press was in large part payback for Clinton getting away with extramarital fellatio. As Romney isn’t connected to anyone the press came to loathe but couldn’t lay a glove on, so I’ll be surprised if they go after him with the same ferocity.
ruemara
@wrb: OK, I don’t have pie filters, except for the one in my head, but that’s a damned funny comment.
Chuck Butcher
One thing to remember about Gore v Bush, whether you like it or not people who care about something like the 2nd Amendment do see it as a civil liberty and don’t like attempts to take it away. Gore lost badly among the gun owning public, which does majority trend right, but contains a hell of a lot of votes that don’t trend that way.
People who agree with you about damn near everything will vote against you or waste the vote if they perceive you taking away a civil right they care about. Outside the NRA scare bullshit, Obama does not have that problem – in fact he went out of his way to court the non-lunatic portion of that vote. Yes, I know that because I was a part of it and even managed to get themes and language inserted into an address.
Keith G
@dogwood:
This is the smartest thing that I have read all day.
Convention media coverage of a candidate will follow a narrative cycle. We have been in the “Nobody Likes Mitt” story line for while now. As he cements his lead we will be in a “Getting to Know the Winner” mode usually followed by “Can He keep It Together?” stories, and often “What Is Going Wrong?”. Then the next heroic up-cycle will emerge.
Please lets not start crying over every article. It is only Jan. 8.
wrb
@ruemara:
Thanks.
I added to the stock pie comments.
jazzgurl
@ barath- Why not go to theObamDiary.com and ask the question. I guarantee some-one will send you on the right path.
Cheers and good luck. If not start something with OFA. Why not call and ask?
Joey Maloney
@Special Patrol Group:
@Yutsano:
Fuck the Pope!
stevestory
@ruemara: if you don’t have the pie filter you should install it. Once you filter out kola, veritas, samara, and one or two others, this site becomes much more readable.
Be nice if it could filter out replies to them too, but that’s more difficult.
dogwood
@Keith G:
Amen! And you know what else is going to happen? After Mitt sews up the nomination in the next month or so, his poll numbers will rise. There will be lots of pro-Mitt stories as well. I know lots of people think the longer this goes on with the Republican nomination the better it is for Democrats, but I’d just as soon move on. Let Mitt have his moment in the sun during the dead of winter. One thing you can definitely say about the President is that he is patient and persistent. The White House team won’t panic. And they’ll be ready to go after Mitt when the fluffing period is over.
dogwood
@stevestory:
Be nice if people would simply stop replying to them, but that seems to be too much to ask for around here.
Disclaimer: I love the pseudo-troll Veritas and would hate to see him disappear. He adds levity without destroying the thread.
David in NY
He’s not alone. My wife was telling me this AM that the radio press was all agog with Rich Santorum’s sweater vest. She, not knowing the Gore story as obsessed by Somerby, was astonished at the way I attacked the press for being total idiots, even though that was (mildly) in defense of Santorum.
Don’t those guys ever do any real work?
Applejinx
The beautiful thing about this is, Romney would very possibly reply,
“Tortoise, what’s that?” or “What do you mean I’m not helping?”
Maus
@Citizen_X:
Yes but all of his positions are predicated on States’ Rights, so it is impossible to separate these good ideas from his rotten, bigoted principles.
Brandon
I am increasingly getting sick and tired of DougJ’s ongoing mancrush on Romney. DougJ feels bad for Romney because DougJ believes Romney is at his core decent and not one of those crazy conservatives. DougJ’s heart goes out to Romney every time Romney talks about sharks with lasers protecting the border. DougJ believes Romney is fundamentally moderate and would govern as such in the WH. DougJ believes Romney is being hard done by from a Village media that is out to get him, like Gore.
It seems to me that DougJ is just ahead of the curve of what the media will be pimping about Romney for the next 10 months. He really doesn’t believe all those awful things he said, but had to say them for the nomination. And if you are looking for a corrolary with 2000, that is exactly it because that is exactly how the media treated Bush. Everything Gore said was scrutinized and everything Bush said was explained away. And Romney has had so many positions on everything that it just makes it easier to ignore everything he’s said. The reality is that Romney is a Republican and the media will keep changing the rules as to why he is a ‘good guy’. The fact that DougJ is willfully blind to this to the point of bringing out the whaambulance one article about him as indicative of trend tells me everything I need to know.
nastybrutishntall
Oh God. Romney is Patrick Bateman. But with a slightly better haircut.