Still amazingly lifelike, now with realistic grey temples. (ap photo)
Oh, Mitt Romney! Welcome back. Why should Mike Huckabee get all the attention? The Mittster, Romnoid — whatever your secret nickname was for him in the last election — is back at high visbility, trying to fill the Republican Leadership Void ™ with his reliably wooden, subtly indignant, now more-deliberately Reaganesque persona.
On Fox, he didn’t like what he and others are calling Obama’s continued overseas “Apology Tour”
“You want an American president who is confident and determined in our protection of freedom and in the fact that America is a great nation and that we have sacrificed more than any other nation to help other people to reclaim freedom. And given all that, these constant apologies, I think, are quite troublesome.”
He also had no truck (excuse the pun) with the government running the auto industry:
“The president ought to immediately distribute the government’s shares that the taxpayers are paying for to the taxpayers. And of course, taxpayers will buy and sell them amongst each other in a public market and ultimately be able to elect a board of directors and management team focused on building the kind of cars Americans want, not the kind of cars that the Sierra Club would like to make us buy.”
What’s your game, Romney? The speeches, the morning show appearances, the political action committee, the talking points — are you merely positioning yourself for 2012 or do you have something else up your handsomely cuffed sleeve? Are the Reaganesque flourishes part of a larger makeover? Are you running?
“I’m not going to close that door, but I’m not going to walk through it, either,” he said.
Toot- toot! Not currently in Romney’s fleet.
