Quid pro quo, Mittens

[BDBoop]

Poooooor Romney!! He's all up in arms because allegedly, the Obama campaign is going to paint him as "weird" - of course it was different when he did it to Obama!!

[insert Romney sulking here]

What's really weird

But even though the Obama strategy seems weird, Romney's orchestrated umbrage is way weirder - because Romney himself has long labored to tag the president as weird, as alienated from all red-blooded American values. Back in June, Romney painted Obama as (gasp) "European," as a seeker of "European answers" gathered from "the capitals of Europe." He has also recited the long-discredited Republican lie about how Obama supposedly travels the world apologizing for America - and what could be weirder than an apologist?

In other words, Romney has no business bemoaning the weirdness strategy. Few politicians do, because the strategy has been standard practice for years. One of the modern pioneers was Lee Atwater, the legendary Republican gut-fighter who made his bones in South Carolina by painting a Democratic candidate as a mentally imbalanced weirdo who had been "hooked up to jumper cables." Atwater graduated to the '88 presidential campaign, where he helped create the impression that Democratic hopeful Michael Dukakis was weird in part because his Greek name sounded foreign. The George W. Bush campaign in 2004 went the same route with John Kerry, dropping hints to reporters that the guy was weird because he seemed vaguely "French."

 

[Stephanie]

This is another YAWNER.

so much petty stuff