As a Columbia Club member, I was able to attend Mitt’s breakfast fund raiser this morning. I shook the man’s hand all of forty minutes ago. (No, I did not provide funds, though I did sign a petition for him to get on the ballot in Indiana. I hope he gets the nomination. 
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First, let’s give credit where it’s due. Mitt looks good, he looks presidential. He seems like a genuinely nice guy, and he is a very good speaker–not phony at all, just smooth, natural, and ingratiating.
All that said, what a fool. He sounds even stupider and blinkereder to a sympathetic audience than he does in Soundbyteville.
He says that America is at an inflection point. Life will never be the same again, etc. Why? Radical jihad, increased foreign competition, and I forget the third reason. The radical jihad thing is just retarded, the foreign competition thing is reasonable enough, and I forget the other thing.
What are really stupid are his “ideas” for change. I will give him credit for doing something about health insurance in Mass. I’ll give him credit perhaps for getting other things done there. But all he has to offer, despite his belief in big changes coming for our nation, are pretty standard Republican talking points (although, again, he sounded credible in talking about health insurance). Lower taxes, strengthening families, stronger military, blah blah. Zero vision, in other words.
He also made a crack about Hillary saying we need to be more in-this-together by saying, “I guess it’s out with Joseph Smith, in with Karl Marx.” Haw haw. Also an Edwards haircut joke.
Tosser!
