Only
a year ago Mitt Romney was beleaguered in the GOP primaries but survived and,
like some giant squid, has since fattened on carcasses of the bottom-dwellers he
defeated.
From
Newt Gingrich he absorbed debate feistiness served up by an “attack coach.” The
remains of Rick Santorum were a feast of moralizing mush to digest unpalatable facts.
But Cain was the main course.
Romney’s
nourishment was not enough to give him Cain’s flair (the man could sell ice
cubes to Eskimos) but inspired the dippy no-details 9-9-9 spirit of the
Godfather’s pizza man, whose chief economic adviser turned out to be a
small-town Wells Fargo stockbroker,
As
Romney’s numbers fail to add up, Democrats launch a mocking web site to
dramatize the emptiness of his suitcase of painless promises to lower taxes and
attack the deficit and make everyone feel good.
His
latest estimates, says the Tax Policy Center, “suggest that Romney will need to
do much more than capping itemized deductions to pay for the roughly $5
trillion in rate cuts and other tax benefits he has proposed.”
But
not to worry. If skepticism reaches critical mass, Romney can go back to urging
business owners to strong-arm workers into voting for him, and he can always
trot out Herman Cain to explain how it all works.
Obama
has only Nobel laureates endorsing him, and what do they know?
1 comment:
Cain’s flair (the man could sell ice cubes to Eskimos)
Don't knock it; that may be an important business opportunity in the near future.
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