I'm gonna get back to you on that question
in four or five weeks, is that all right?
(Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
You may recall during the debt ceiling showdown, when Boehner et al were working out their (cough) "compromise" plans, presidential candidate Mitt Romney managed to make a minor bit of news by being apparently completely unable to come up with any substantive position on the matter
until after it was a done deal. His indecision lasted for weeks, which I think we can all agree is a pretty impressive feat for someone who wants to be president.
Now we know what he was preoccupied with, all that time:
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has joined Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Sen. Pennsylvania Rick Santorum in signing a pledge to oppose same-sex marriage on a number of specific fronts. [...]
Romney, Bachmann and Santorum signed on to support a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage, to appoint federal judges who don't see a constitutional right to same-sex marriage and to back the Defense of Marriage Act.
Yes, after lengthy deliberations, and only after a lead-in from the two most religiously, um, "frothy" candidates in the race, Mitt Romney has decided that he finally feels comfortable signing a meaningless pledge promising to hurt gay people. Now that's decisiveness! (Note that this isn't the crazy-ass Iowa pledge on the same subject, the one that required candidates to not have affairs and other complications like that. This is a far more limited pledge dedicated solely to hatin' on the gay folks.)
So the stock market took a nosedive, Europe may be facing a Lehman-style market freeze, we've spent the last few months taking our own economy hostage in order for Republicans to demand fidelity to a small set of ideological nutcases who even now still aren't appeased, unemployment is still absolutely hide-the-guns-and-pass-the-whiskey abominable, people are beginning to mutter about a "double-dip" recession, but Mitt Romney, potential Leader Of The Free Freaking World, would like us to know that after studying the matter extensively he finally feels comfortable signing a piece of paper chastising gay people for wanting rights and stuff.
Bra-vo. I certainly think he's shown he has his finger on the pulse of America, don't you?
Tune in next week, when Romney will get around to deciding which of the Teletubbies was in fact indoctrinating our children, what he thinks about New Coke, and marveling at the strange flying machines in the sky that people can actually ride in.