I suited up, and did some trolling over at redstate, where Erick had a post about:
A Severe Conservative Speaks at CPAC
Even the conservatives have Rmoney's ad-libs figured out. He singled out the sentence:
“I fought against long odds in a deep blue state, but I was a severely conservative Republican governor.”
and proceeded to shred how shallow this is, and that is sounds more like a critique of conservatism than an endorsement. I have to admit, I was pretty much in agreement with him at this point. What amazed me, and prompted this diary is that I clicked through to a link at
The New Republic (I know, I know; I'm headed to the shower right away) where Chris Orr summed Rmoney up February 7,
2008. The Quentin Taratino aspect is what got me to the link, I'll admit.
In Kill Bill 2, David Carradine's character explains:
That Superman is unique in the comic-book universe: Whereas most superheroes' secret identities (Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker) are their true identities--the people they were before their parents were murdered or they were bitten by radioactive spiders or exposed to gamma rays or what have you--Superman was born Superman. It's Clark Kent that is the invented alias, the pose, the "costume." And in the way Superman plays Kent--weak, self-doubting, cowardly--we see his critique of the human race.
Orr went on to say (and this comparison seems pretty apt):
It occurred to me that the same is true of Romney’s desperate, if never terribly persuasive, impersonation of a conservative Republican. That persona–angry, simple-minded, xenophobic, jingoistic–is exactly what Romney (who is himself cultured, content, and cosmopolitan) imagines the average GOP voter to be.
Emphasis added.
If this was the view held by conservatives in 2008, it is certainly no wonder Mittens is having so much trouble closing the deal in 2012. The republican crazy train is now so far to the right, it's way off the tracks.
With any luck, this lack of enthusiasm will translate into reduced turnout come November (assuming Rmoney still gets the nomination). Combine that with lots of hard work on our side, and maybe we have a chance to get the House back, as well as keep our majority in the Senate.