Beached Whales

Many of us pretty much lost interest in Newt when he wandered into his first or second wife's hospital room, during her cancer fight, and announced that there was someone else for him and she need not come home; divorce papers in the morning.

We are pretty sure that Newt's rise and subsequent fall was a lot owning to the Romney PAC's attack ads but it is pretty senseless to blame the truth for one's demise.  There is that thing called reality.

Romney is no bargain either.  Some may call him a gutless flipflopper; a charitable view to be sure. He never had an ounce of connection to the "common guy".  He was an "elite" in Michigan growing up - daddy growing up as governor, rich beyond use for the money, preppy and coddled.  If you didn't or don't know Cranbrook, its a prep school like Exeter or Choate - the Michigan version and that, along with wealth and Bloomfield Hills upbringing took him out of touch with the common folk at about age 12.

I met Wilton while in HS at a statewide meeting of those high schoolers who were part of the student groups who liasoned with local government.  Bay City's contingent went to Lansing for a weekend thing.  We were generally middle class, from a middle class background and a middle class city. When the hotsietots from Bloomfield arrived they just moved to the podium area and sat down - just like that. Being somewhat full of myself as well, I organized a few other chairmen from our area and we marched up there and told them to bugger off until there was an election of sorts to see who would chair this thing.

Wilton had a name tag "Romney" - not Mitt - and security as his daddy was governor. We were blocked by these blokes from asking the question "What do you think you are doing?".  It was a good question now as it was then and  Wilton still doesn't have an answer. Witness his dismemberment of Newt.

What we don't get and Newt doesn't get is this isn't personal or about what Newt says, believes, exposes, trumpets, or anything.  This is about the Divine Right of Kings - Wilton assumes his place rather  than putting anything forth other than name, wealth and hubris.  Newt is merely the latest whale that needs to be beached...not that he doesn't deserve it.

I believe that this is what I find most irksome about this republican gaggle - their though that they are entitled - something they received at birth or conception, and behaving like a garden slug isn't of much importance as contemplating their lack of substance would simply waste time; take away from their Divine mission so to speak.

So now Newt has a 5 million dollar donation to his support PAC to kinda see him through - although all the New Hampshire TV time has long ago been bought so it goes to S. Carolina where the population is basically so bad off they might buy into his brand of swill.

Perhaps better that then the Cranbrook Dandy's load of manure but that's for another day.