Mitt Romney Says You Smell

[marmar]

from HuffPost:


Chris Kelly

Mitt Romney Says You Smell
Posted July 20, 2007 | 12:45 PM (EST)



What is it with Republicans and poo? Last week it was Senator David Vitter and the diapers. This week, Mitt Romney is calling America "a cesspool."

Here's the text of a new Romney television ad:

"I'm deeply troubled about the culture that surrounds our kids today. Following the Columbine shootings, Peggy Noonan described our world as "the ocean in which our children now swim." She described a cesspool of violence, and sex, and drugs, and indolence, and perversions. She said that the boys who did the shooting had "inhaled too deeply in the oceans in which they swam." I'd like to see us clean up the water in which our kids are swimming. I'd like to keep pornography from coming up on their computers. I'd like to keep drugs off the streets. I'd like to see less violence and sex on TV and in video games and in movies. And if we get serious about this, we can actually do a great deal to clean up the water in which our kids and our grandkids are swimming."

Which raises a whole slew of interesting questions:

What kind of campaign imagery is that? I see America swimming in a cesspool? Why would Mitt Romney even want to govern a country that did things like that? I have a hard enough time being nice to the dog after it gets skunked.

Is this cesspool downwind or upwind from the shining city on a hill? Shouldn't someone have built America some kind of metaphorical sewer system by now?

I know Mitt Romney is strong -- every ninth word the man says is either "strong" or "strength" -- but can any anyone really keep us safe from indolence?

Is indolence better than sloth? Or is it worse, because it knows better?

How serious is America's Indolence Crisis? Is it more or less of a problem than "the vapors?"

Are you the Music Man? .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/mitt-romney-says-you-smel_b_57110.html

[rodeodance]

1. quoting Peggy Noonan is a turn off for me!

[TlalocW]

2. Two things

1. The hotel that he was a board member for offers in-room dirty movies. Why didn't he do anything about that?
2. He wants to clean up this metaphorical water in which kids swim - any concerns about cleaning up and keeping actual water clean?

TlalocW

[DemBones DemBones]

3. Two answers

1. No doubt he was completely in the dark with, er, about, those movies.

2. Surely you jest. A Republican do something good for the environment? :rofl:

[abq e streeter]

4. Don't fall in the trap

of dismissing stuff like this out of hand. Even hypocritical jackasses (i.e. the entire Republiklan party) have a valid point here and there. They want progressives to appear to not give a damn about the fact that much of popular culture IS pretty slimy these days (although, of course, they, in their terminal cases of hypocritical-jackassitis can't separate aspects of it that just offend their prudery, from the genuinely offensive--not to mention how much of it emanates from them in the first place ). I have seen Barack Obama make similar points about the "coarseness" of much of modern culture and discourse, and those points are equally valid; much more so actually, because the stench of holier- than- thou Republiklan hypocrisy isn't there.

[Demeter]

5. GOP Big Business MAKES Those Slimy Entertainments for Profits

while real arts beg for change on street corners, real education shuts down for lack of funds, and real sports are crushed by insurance liability, space and time issues.

[abq e streeter]

6. Absolutely agree

I did say " not to mention how much of it emanates from them" ---and only part of why they're such hypocrites...