“Mitt Romney sure looks comfortable with a crowd and natural on the campaign trail.”—–No one, ever
Watching Mitt Romney get grilled for specifics about his tax plan on 60 Minutes andĀ stillĀ not give them was a little like watching a murder suspect sweat in a police interrogation room. At one point, I half expected him to say “Boy, is it me or is it hot in here,” and loosen his tie.
Then his wife Ann stopped by The Tonight Show to defend her husband and said (with the look of a shell shocked war survivor) “If there’s two things I know about Mitt, it’s that he cares and he’s competent.” Damn! What euphoric praise! Let me run out and vote for him now that his wife has so passionately described him as competent…But you know, I feel a little bad for a seemingly nice lady like Ann, because I realize that she’s had to put up with Mitt for a very, very long time.
Todd Akin (the man who will forever be known as the Missouri senate candidate who made the infamous “legitimate rape” crack) has officially passed the deadline to drop out of the race, so now, of course, Republicans are defending him again now that it’s too late for him to get out of the race. The entire party thought he sucked two months ago, but now that it’s either him or forfeit, they’re rallying around him again.
Asshole of the Week: Zimbabwe’s atrocious dictator Robert Mugabe, who said that Libya’s tyrant, Gaddafi, died in a way that was just as tragic as the U.N. ambassador. Uhhhh…let’s think about this. One man terrorized Libya for decades and killed countless people, the other was a diplomat killed in an Al-Qaeda attack masquerading as childish rage over a stupid movie. Nah, not even close, but I understand why Mugabe would defend his fellow fascist because he’ll probably wind up the same way.