Thursday, March 22, 2012

Etch-a-Sketch Election, 2012

Mitt Romney’s hapless aide has found the perfect metaphor for a GOP campaign that keeps changing like scribbles on a childhood toy, erasing quick pictures of one frontrunner after another and now preparing to find the best face for a chameleon candidate who makes “Zelig” look like a figure on Mt. Rushmore.

Which Romney will run against Obama? There are dozens to choose from, with a SuperPAC for each area of the country, each demographic slice of the population, each voter desire—-a cascade of media Mitts to parade as the “turnaround” guy for every Obama hater’s desire.

One tiny problem: The Daily Show, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher et al will be showing montages of them all. But will anyone beyond us liberal elitists be watching?

Update: In his last gasp mode, Rick Santorum is grasping for the metaphor as a weapon.

“You win by giving people a choice,” he tells a Texas crowd. “You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who’s just going to be a little different than the person in there...

“If they’re going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch a Sketch candidate for the future.”

But there are so many to choose from.

2 comments:

Fuzzy Slippers said...

[quote]But will anyone beyond us liberal elitists be watching? [/quote]

Nope.

Anonymous said...

Yes....just google or youtube the search term [Romney's FLIP FLOPS].

While you're at it just google or youtube the search term [Romney's DRAFT DODGING DEFERMENTS].