SUNDAY EVENING MUSINGS

I haven't posted in awhile. The semester was hectic, and the time I could have spent writing was spent grading countless essays. I have three weeks before summer school begins, and I hope to be able to post more frequently. Let's face it, there are lots of things that deserve comment.

Mitt Romney

I just watched the 60 Minutes interview with Mitt Romney. Mike Wallace (and every other reporter who has interviewed him) referred to him as presidential. Really? I think he looks like a television evangelist. He sounds like a television evangelist. He may be polished. He may wear French cuffs. He is even handsome. (He was hot as a young man.)

But there is something smarmy and unsettling about him. He's plasticene When he talks about wanting to be president, I see a slick television evangelist asking the elderly to send in a contribution they can't afford. And he's all too happy to accept it -- even though he's already a multi-millionaire. 

He boasts about his Mormon faith, but no one else dare bring it up. He says that polygamy is "awful," though his great-grandfather was a polygamist. I'd really like to know if Mitt descends from his great-grandfather's first wife or one of his polygamist wives. He disingenously referred to polygamy having been abolished in the "1800's."  1890, to  be specific. In fact, the final manifesto against polygamy, which threatened excommunication, didn't come until 1904.

If I could ask Mitt a question, it would be, "How do you reconcile your Church's decision to abolish what was a defining tenet of its faith?"  Or, "Do you believe that a Church should disavow a defining tenet of its faith for political expediency (Utah becoming a state)?" Or, maybe, "What if the Church's current prophet (Mormonism has living prophets) said that he had had a revelation about re-instating plural marriage, would it still be 'awful'?"

Then there are his sons: five, 25-37, married, copious children, and not a one would consider serving in the military -- even though their father supports Bush's current policy in Iraq. Doesn't that say it all?

Rudy Giuliani

What a  chump!  He's married to Eva Duarte (Peron) and doesn't even know it. Is the US really ready for a former mistress to become first lady? And this bitch isn't even discrete. Talk about a gold-digger. The first divorce from number 1 was only five days old before she married number 2.

Each time she has traded  up, and test-drove the new model before she dumped the old one. She stalked Giuliano at a Manhattan cigar bar he was known to frequent. They insist the meeting was kismet. Sources say it was part of her masterplan. Drove a wedge between him and his children. Insisted on being married in the mayoral mansion in a tiara. His daughter has taken her mother's name rather than be associated with her stepmom. His son refuses to speak to his stepmother. But Rudy is the happiest he has ever been.

According to a recent profile in New York Magazine, between husband number 2 and Rudy, she shacked  up with a Manhattan psychologist. To say she likes to be taken care of is an understatement. None of her husbands or lovers has ever been poor. The fact that each one is richer than the last speaks volumes.  A kindergartner could see the pattern if you wrote it in a word problem.

Referring to Giuliani's battle with prostate cancer, an associate told New York Magazine's Lloyd Grove,  “Part of the reason Rudy loves her so much is that she loved him, and batted her eyes at him, even when his very virility was questioned, when his sexual vitality was knocked out."

Wake up, Rudy! She didn't care if you were impotent because you don't need an erection to be elected president.

John McCain

See a therapist already.

Sam Brownback

Probably the most truly religious Republican candidate, but the Evangelical hierarchy (Dobson, Robertson, Perkins, et al) don't think he can win. It doesn't matter if the man they support is really religious, as long as he promises to hate homosexuals. Evangelicals believe Mormons are non-Christians, but they will vote for him if their potentates tell them too. Romney's anti-gay bonafides have already been established. It doesn't matter if they think he's going to hell -- as long as he promises to publicly condemn homosexuality.

More later...

Comments

[Eddie]

A pleasure, George; always!