Romney Ought to Run on Competency

As bridges collapse, hurricanes destroyed American cities the Bush administration ran for cover and did not take responsibility.

Romney might be the only candidate who can get government working well again. But he is bogged down with his obsession with pleasing social conservatives.

Ron Paul Gives It to Mitt Romney Real Good

not in a gay way (I wish!) but in an anti-war way. Video clip here. Via The Agitator who also links to this story that will make you mad at MADD.

A Good Zinger

I'm no fan of two-faced Romney, and I don't dislike Obama any more than the rest of the Democrats, but this zinger made my day.

The Republican candidates for president used a nationally televised morning debate to mock Democrats on foreign policy, taxes and health care while sparring with each other over abortion and the administration's anti-terrorism efforts.
[...]
Obama (D-Ill.), in particular, was singled out for saying last week that he would act against terrorists in Pakistan without the support of its president. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney contrasted those comments with Obama's remark during a recent debate that he would be willing to meet with all foreign leaders.

"I mean, in one week he went from saying he's going to sit down, you know, for tea, with our enemies, but then he's going to bomb our allies," Romney said. "He's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week."

Zing!

Don't worry, Obama fought back hard.

Bill Burton, a spokesman for Obama, quickly responded that "the fact that the same Republican candidates who want to keep 160,000 American troops in the middle of a civil war couldn't agree that we should take out Osama bin Laden if we had him in our sights, proves why Americans want to turn the page on the last seven years of Bush-Cheney foreign policy."

Romney Criticizes Singles at Monica Goodling's College

The first time I heard the family card played was during Al Gore's 2000 speech at the Democratic National Convention. He spoke about how he would defend the rights of "working families," and despite the fact that I was at that point working my tail off and part of a family, as every human being is, I knew that he was not talking about me.

Enter Mitt Romney, the guy who should be president if we care about competence but just can't stop pandering to the Christian Right and making himself detestable. At a speech at Monica Goodling's Christian college he took the working family uber alles theme further:

"There is no work more important to America's future than the work that is done within the four walls of the American home," Romney said. He also criticized people who choose not to get married because they enjoy the single life.

Nevermind that many single people would love to be married but just haven't found the right person (can we have some mercy, Mitt?) and that they pay way more in taxes than do people with children who claim zillions of deductions.