On Romney

[Aaron]

Mitt Romney ended the election, after allowing all the GOP mudslingers to work all their tricks at the last minute to extend the election, by giving a really superb concession speech. It was short, to the point, gentlemanly, and professional. I'd like to submit a realistic impression of what American politics produces as a viable alternative to a social progressive.

It's Mitt Romney.

A guy who's been in business, knows 100 percent OF it, if not the mechanics OF it, and knows how to delegate and handle power with deftness and panache. A guy who understands the threat of allowing your more personal and extremist views out into the public, and strongly resisted it until becoming the GOP nominee, and assuming the yoke of millions of asshole christian fundamentalists, required it.

This isn't support of Romney as a presidential candidate, I think he would have been positively terrible. A vulture capitalist who thinks he has virtues is even worse than a vulture capitalist who sardonically stabs society in the neck whenever possible. At least the latter is living his/her truth.

But Romney believed he had the ability, and to the issues that were compatible with him, he would have handled them with a presidential aire. To those not compatible with him and his party, he would have been a global catastrophe in 600 dollar shoes.

This might seem like a backhanded compliment, or not much of a compliment at all, but what can you do in a world that is putting the slow-motion squeeze play on social conservatism?

He was as good as you were going to find. There won't be a better Candidate for the Republicans going forward. Democrats might step in it, and allow for the media to shove us down the pigeon hole of paranoia once or twice more... but no traditionalist is going to go head to head with a progressive and beat him/her on principle. Those days are gone.

[uebermann]

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