Another day another come back kid:
Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran as a son of Michigan though he left the state nearly 40 years ago, won a commanding victory Tuesday in the Republican primary here with a message aimed at voters deeply anxious about the state’s ailing economy. Mr. Romney defeated his principal rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona, by winning a clear plurality of Republicans and conservatives, who turned out in greater numbers than they had in the 2000 primary, which Mr. McCain won.Now I am hopeing for Fred or Rudy in South Carolina. A new winner for every state, I say!
Ann Arbor went 9% for Kucinich. Watch out for Kucinich. He is coming on.
Comments
Ben (The Tiger) - January 16, 2008 10:52 am
I cannot understand why so many conservatives are going for a weasel like Mitt Romney.
Hans - January 16, 2008 11:39 am
I can't take seriously anyone whose first name is Mitt. For some reason, the name just conjures up images of worn-in leather and baseballs, not Presidential grandeur.
ya its me - January 16, 2008 11:43 am
Mitt is a weasel, but really - who in higher politics is not?
No one can assend through the political grinder of either party without serious money behind them and the only way to grab the cash is to be a weasel. (Gore taking bags of cash from monks - Hillary rookie trading cattle futures with no losses - the bushes and the clintons with Riyad cashflows - it never ends)
Mitt did fix the Olympics back in the day (that was a real mess). He also closed his investment firm during an emergency and sent all his employees to NYC to search when one of his associates lost a teen daughter in the city. Mitt did real good there. But he is still weasel.
Alan - January 16, 2008 12:09 pm
Being called Mitt and being from Michigan is something of a gently ironic situation.<p>I want Fred. I am not a FredHead until the next primary is over. Not having a vote this is easy for me.
Ben (The Tiger) - January 16, 2008 1:16 pm
Maybe all politicians are weasels, but Romney is the weasliest of the weasels.
Alan - January 16, 2008 1:19 pm
Do you, perchance, mean he is Prince Weaselia of the Weaselonians?
Ben (The Tiger) - January 16, 2008 1:21 pm
Yes indeed -- if the Weaselonians include his conservative apologists.
Alan - January 16, 2008 1:28 pm
But must we not heed the words of "ya its me" (who is known to me)? It is dangerous to get too huggy and licky with any of these cats is it not. Pointing out that one finds Fred curvacous or otherwise attractive too monogamously is to miss the point that politics is about what is possible not what is perfect. Are you seriously going to vote Clinton if Romney is the candidate?
Ben (The Tiger) - January 16, 2008 1:35 pm
Nah.
But I may vote for "Zombie Ronald Reagan", "Ben Dover", or some other such personage.
Or for Bloomberg, if he runs.
Hans - January 16, 2008 2:51 pm
"Hey Mitt."
"Hey Slipper."
"Got any Murphy's oil on ya?"
"Why is your rawhide upper bothering you?"
Ben (The Tiger) - January 16, 2008 4:35 pm
I think I've figured out Mitt's draw.
He's a Republican Bill Clinton-type figure. Smart, personally charming, amoral technocrat.
Probably would be an excellent president. (Just weaselly. And amoral.)
Jay Currie - January 16, 2008 9:58 pm
I note that on the Dem side the smart money in Michigan was on "uncommitted" a candidate I, for one, find appealing in the circumstances.