I've always been personally pro-life, Mama.

Continuing my feature of "What comic character would they be?" (Which conveniently keeps changing its name).

This weeks episode, Mitt Romney. The former Massachusetts Governor is currently in the top-tier of Republican Presidential aspirants. Before entering politics he made millions as a business consultant and entrepreneur. Among his other accomplishments he seems quite proud of having saved the Winter Olympic in 2002 (because if there's an event that's close to American's hearts, it's the Winter Olympics), coming in and getting the planning and construction necessary to host the games back on track after it seemed it was beyond hope.

Since launching his campaign his credentials as a conservative, particularly on social issues, have been under intense scrutiny by some. Even on some superficial issues of conservatism such as hunting, Romney seems to be somewhat scattershot in his explanations of his position. At one point Romney claimed to be a 'life-long hunter' later upon being challenged it came out that this meant he had been taken hunting once while young and once recently. At the first Republican Primary debates Romney answered a question about his seeming flip-flop on the question of abortion, proclaiming he has always been "Personally Pro-Life". After watching his performance in the second debate in which he was careful to differentiate between 'torture' and 'intensive interrogation' I couldn't help but be reminded of another former Presidential candidate from Massachusetts, John Kerry. Besides their ability to articulate a position on issues that seemingly puts them on both sides and neither, they also both have great hair.

Which leads to the question "What comic character would they be?"

Well let's see, we need a character who has an ability to fit his views to whoever he's attempting to woo at the moment, exaggerates their martial prowess ('life-long hunter')and has great hair.

Clearly one character springs to mind: Johnny Bravo

Ok, he's a cartoon character, strictly speaking not comics, however he fits the criteria. Among his trademarks is constant wooing of lady's or 'Mommas' as he likes to call them, telling them whatever they want to hear (kind of like Romney and Republican voters). Another trademark is showing off his incredible karate skill (usually just before being beat up by the woman who he is currently wooing), and let's face it has great hair.

So here you go, Mitt Romney aka Johnny Bravo

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Great post.

I know Johnny Bravo, and the Stormin' Mormon is no Johnny Bravo.

More to the point, the Mitster has already sealed his DOA fate: he's in favor of "doubling Gitmo." While that may play well with the 40% of 'Mericans who still think Iraq was the behind the World Trade Center attacks, there's a solid 60% who think their country is running into an ethical ditch. Mitt's in that ditch up to his lily-white buttocks, and no amount of flip-flopping will help him climb out.

Mutt Romney is toast, pure and simple.

You're right, it's cruel to Johnny...

Yeah I think his campaign is dead in the water, that doesn't mean I'm above cracking jokes at the funeral.

Well

According to Zogby, Romney's picking up some steam.

Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it. - Robert F. Kennedy

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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed. - Robert F. Kennedy

Trains often pick up steam...

just before the boiler explodes.

And explode it will

Mitt Romney is catapulting the Church of the Latter Day Saints into a level of public scrutiny it has never endured. And while the radical Christian right has a certain affection for the lily white color of all things Mormon, they will get increasingly skittish about Romney as they learn more about his religion. The god-directed embrace of polygamy and slavery by the church - conveniently abandoned just in time to comply with US laws - will eat away at any Southern Baptist's confidence. Joe Smith's golden tablets story? Not even Jesus could pull off a stunt like that. And then there's the Land of Moron, of course, about which the less said the better . . .

GIGO

Garbage in, Gospel out... how remarkable...

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi

That's a great one!

GIGO . .. very funny.

I keep a copy of the Book of Mormon on my desk. It is pretty darn bizarre. But I suppose that could be said about most "holy" books.

Yup yup yup.

One man's holy book is another man's science fiction. For someone who is not christian at all, the entire thing looks pretty bizarre.

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The Den
It's your democracy; use it.

While I'm as skeptical of Mormonism as any system of belief...

I don't think it has any bearing on the fact that the man clearly has absolutley no political principles other than getting himself elected. There's people like that in every religion and even among -egad- atheists. Furthermore I'm not sure the Democratic Party could really do much lecturing to anyone on their timing in their abandonment of slavery, if we're going to criticize the history of another group, lets remember ours, for better and for worse.

It's not about timing

it's about god.

For example, LDS doctrine, delivered by god to J. Smith, said followers should embrace polygamy. Then when the government got involved, they changed their tune. To which I ask: Did god say it or not?

God didn't tell southern white Democrats to fight for slavery, at least not on some magical golden tablets. I think that's a pretty big difference. A religion that bends itself to accommodate secular laws doesn't seem worthy of people's faith.

I think it hardly matters...

who the ass-wipes run. The Republicans are toast. If Eisenhower crawled out of the grave and ran, they'd still be toast. And I'm going to enjoying watching as they all self-destruct. Wimps...all of them.

Meanwhile, I'm so enthralled wth Hillary's national piush to find an appropriate campaign theme song I can hardly decide whether to go blind or go bowling....gurgle, roll eyes...try to get buzzing noise to go away.

Go Edwards. !!!

SE NC Dems

Stan Bozarth

I'm taking nothing for granted

this season. I don't trust the sumbitches not to cheat. Again. DOJgate and the seamy underbelly of election fraud are only just beginning to ripen. The real stink hasn't surfaced. I have a nagging fear that there won't be nearly enough exposed, indicted and prosecuted before the next big election. Clock's tickin' and it ain't Fitzmas yet.

Oh, and while I'm venting (again, quelle surprise): what's this repug meme of "pro-life" anyway? A sane person cannot be "pro-war", "pro-death-penalty" and simultaneously "pro-life". Philisophically irreconcilable concepts.

I don't even wanna know what you have to do to your brain to believe that they aren't.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi

Yeah sadly...

I agree, take nothing for granted. My bigger fear is not that it will take too long to out all these scandals but that the Republicans will actually wise up, out themselves now, and let it blow over by the time the election rolls around.