Friday, December 21, 2007

Marching ordure   [Mark Steyn]

Andy, David: Yes, that video of Mitt explaining the dad/MLK thing is cringeworthy, but it's cringeworthy because it's so unnecessary. From The Detroit Free Press, June 29th 1963, "Romney Joins Protest March Of 500 In Grosse Pointe":

With Gov. Romney a surprise arrival and marching in the front row, more than 500 Negroes and whites staged a peaceful antidiscrimination parade up Grosse Pointe’s Kercheval Avenue Saturday. … ‘the elimination of human inequalities and injustices is our urgent and critical domestic problem,’ the governor said. … [Detroit NAACP President Edward M.] Turner told reporters, ‘I think it is very significant that Governor Romney is here. We are very surprised.’ Romney said, ‘If they want me to lead the parade, I’ll be glad to.’

End of story, or so you'd think. Except that Governor Romney trying to explain it has turned it into an Al Gore I-was-the-inspiration-for-Love-Story routine or a John Kerry They're-not-my-SUVs-they're-the-family's-SUVs thing. I like Mitt but he needs to be a lot nimbler on this stuff. For the money he's spending, surely someone could write him a few Huck-type "Paul is dead" lines.

12/21 01:50 PMShare