Mitt Romney Is A National Embarassment

by tristero

Man, Romney makes me ashamed of my country:

“We’ll try and represent ourselves and our nation well also to our kids because I think, I think kids watch the White House and there have been failures in the past in the White House — if you go back to the Clinton years and recognize that — that I think had an enormous impact on the culture of our country”

Oh, where to start? Well, for starters, I suppose Romney’s saying that the “enormous impact” of Monica’s blowjob “on the culture our country” was responsible for Trent Lott’s racist defense of Strom Thurmond, the substance abuse problems of Jeb Bush’s daughter, the meth-fueled extramarital sex sessions of the former Reverend Ted Haggard, Larry Craig’s widening stance, Bush/Iraq war supporter Brittney Spears’ shaved head, and maybe even Cheney’s inebriated behavior around loaded shotguns. Or maybe Romney has in mind serial adulterers in his own party like Scaife, Gingrich, Hyde, and Giuliani. Who knew a little fellatio was so insidious that it could cause David Addington and Alberto Gonzalez to countenance torture, or Tom Delay to use the Office of Homeland Security to help subvert the legislature of Texas? Or perhaps Romney had in mind the slimy christianist activists who Judge Jones accused of lying to a court of law during Kitzmiller v. Dover. Yes, this is all the Clintons’ fault.

For a second response, let’s go about 40 kilometers outside of Helsinki, to a farmhouse, with 6 or 7 Finnish friends, with plenty of great food and beer. And when? The day Clinton admitted getting a blowjob from a woman not his wife.

To make a long, very enjoyable evening short, the behavior my Finnish friends found silly and embarrassing was that anyone in the US cared enough to make a big deal out of it. It was the Republican’s and media’s shocked, shocked reaction that was embarrassing the United States. This reaction is a common one, all over the world. Only once, in Canada, did I speak to someone who felt Clinton embarassed the US. I hasten to add that all other Canadians I’ve known are quite normal.

Finally, I am certain that Romney is quite capable of embarassing this country in his own numerous and unique ways, should this country be nuts enough to elect him. Indeed, his remarks about Clinton represent quite a start. And, as Atrios says, he lies about everything. And let’s not forget his public admission that he won’t allow his Mormonism to stand in the way of fluffing christianists.