Bloodthirsty Liberal

Someone alert the Newfoundland Human Rights Commission!

I have my own issues with Mitt Romney—but a hot blonde wife is not one of them.

In unusually stark language, the newspaper in New Hampshire’s capital calls former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney “a phony” and tells its readers Sunday that he “most surely must be stopped” in next month’s first-in-the-nation primary.

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With “an athletic build, ramrod posture, Reaganesque hair, a charismatic speaking style and a crisp dark suit” along with “a beautiful wife and family, a wildly successful business career and just enough executive government experience” Romney espouses “some old GOP bromides — spending cuts and lower taxes — plus some new positions for 2008: anti-immigrant rhetoric and a focus on faith,” the editorial says.

The Concord Monitor editorial page is considered to be liberal.

No. Seriously?

What kind of commentary is this? Only in the liberal mind could all the trappings of success be objects of mockery and contempt. And if he’s a flip-flopper, I’m a whirling dervish. People change their minds—indeed they should as they grow more mature.

Now, I would ask the Gov’nor why he launched his campaign from the Henry Ford Museum (the namesake being a notorious anti-Semite), and why he praised Hezbollah as a model of social outreach. I would ask him why he asserted he saw his father march with Martin Luther King, Jr. when he didn’t—and then retracted and twisted the assertion, when his father indeed might have.

Of all the Republicans and all the Democrats, only Romney and Huckabee challenge my determination to vote Republican next year. I may need to bring a pencil into the voting booth (how do you spell Lieberman?).