Romco v. Ronco

I just got back from a brief presentation on teacher unions by Mass. governor Mitt Romney. The conference room at AEI was SRO to the point that it's obvious many inside the Beltway find Romney an at-least intriguing bet for the Republican nomination for president in 2008.

Apart from what Romney said -- and, really, you and I don't care what he said -- I was stunned by how he uncannily resembles a slightly younger Ron Popeil, inventor extraordinaire.

And that's even before we consider the fact that both:

are wealthy capitalists who could sell water to the ocean;

are captivating speakers;

don't sell anything I or anyone I know is buying, yet are somehow hugely succesful pitch men at the same time;

presumably own a Ronco Food Dehydrator; and

used to have fewer and grayer hair on their heads than they do now (maybe it's the spray-on hair?)

So I'm announcing right here that 1) Mitt Romney is hereafter to be solely known as Romco, and 2) Mitt Romney is the Ron Popeil of the Republican Party. And if you attempt to use either of these observations without crediting me I will hunt you down and stab you with a Solid Flavor Injector.