Here we see two wealthy Americans in their natural habitat. Look out: it looks like
they have spotted one another. Now they will engage in ritual monetary combat
to determine dominance within the pack. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)
I have no idea why anyone thinks this will help. From
ABC News:
With just over a week to go before Michigan voters head to the polls, Mitt Romney is enlisting the help of one of his highest-wattage surrogates: Donald Trump.
The real estate mogul is preparing to spread his pro-Romney, anti-Rick Santorum message in a series of radio interviews this week on local stations from Traverse City to Detroit.
All right, let's say you're a Republican presidential candidate who is widely seen as out of touch. You've been accused of siding with multimillionaires over the rest of America. You're a multimillionaire yourself, and you made your money in generally not very nice ways. You're trying to distance yourself from all of this, because it's so toxic that people are thinking they might want to vote for the crazy theocrat guy with the un-Googleable name over
you.
So what do you do? You bring in a surrogate who is a multimillionaire, and who in fact is the public face of gratuitous, ostentatious wealth. A guy who gold-plates the seat belts on his private plane. A guy who is quite literally famous for being out of touch. That's the guy you bring in to sell you.
What's the sales pitch here? Millionaires for millionaires? Mitt Romney: Not as out of touch as this guy? Is there just nobody left to endorse Mitt Romney except for other insanely wealthy people?
Hmm. Yeah, good luck with that.