Yes, Muffy, it certainly is difficult to get good help these days

[kpete]

Here are the two things we learned about the actual frontrunners last night. First of all, Mitt Romney is still a smug, entitled prick. His regular-guy shtick has never been convincing, and it never will be, so he abandoned it entirely last night. If he wasn't whining, continuously, about how he wasn't being allowed to speak, he was letting loose with the kind of contemptuous snicker that you aim at the help when they fall down the stairs. (Remember in 2000, when pundits wouldn't shut up about Al Gore's alleged sighing? This was worse.) For some reason — and "utter, flop-sweaty desperation" is the first answer that leaps to mind — Perry decided to go after Romney on an old story from the Boston Globe in which it was reported that the Romneys had illegal immigrants doing yard work on the family manse back in Massachusetts. Romney parried the attacks ably with his usual mixture of condescension and contempt for the lower classes who dare question him. And then he proceeded to drop his hands, and stick his chin out.

First he said that, when he learned that the landscaping company had hired undocumented workers, Romney told Perry that he told the company, "You can't have any illegals working on our property. I'm running for office, for pete's sake, we can't have illegals."

Exsqueeze me? Baking powder?

The answer was not, "Hey, we can't have this. It's illegal." No, for Mitt, the first problem was that he couldn't find a way to spin it if anyone found out. And then, Mitt continued, that "it's hard to know, when you're hiring people to work on your property, if they're hiring illegals or not."

Yes, Muffy, it certainly is difficult to get good help these days, a problem that I am sure is plaguing all of those people out there in Nevada who are scraping to keep the old Craftsman running for another season as they mow their own lawns in front of the house that's in danger of being foreclosed because some crook in a distant bank sold the mortgage to it about 130 times. More sherry, Pater?

the rest:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/republican-debate-6518814#ixzz1bEihXTsR