Erick Ericksson has a widely circulated piece up this morning about how electing Mitt Romney will just ruin everything. He says:
“Mitt Romney…is a man devoid of any principles other than getting himself elected.”
I wish I could understand why the right wingers don’t see what an incredible advantage this is for them. Romney, being empty of everything but ambition is as good as building a robot to serve their needs. They have a well developed infrastructure to keep him on the straight and narrow, media to keep him informed of his marching orders and a full blown policy shop with instruction manuals he can just pull right off the shelf. If he could manage to get elected they would own him — and since he has no principles or agenda he wouldn’t mind being owned. He could be the most conservative president in history.
Now, naturally he would have to be allowed to protect the wealthy, but Erickson certainly wouldn’t have any problem with that and neither would the rank and file as long as Mitt delivered on the rest of the agenda. Liz Cheney to head CIA, Andrew Napolitano for the Supreme Court, Bachman at State, Arpaio at Homeland Security — whatever they want. Since he doesn’t care about anything and has no principles, he will cater to the people who put him in office without a second thought. And if he doesn’t know what they expect, they have many sophisticated mechanisms to make him understand.