Mitt in The Funny Papers

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It seems Doonesbury is having fun with Mitt Romney's flippity-jippity thang, having reversed his position on gay rights, abortion and gun control. I'm thinking that, if Garry Trudeau is focusing on him --- and we all know Garry gets his info intravenously from the Democratic Party Gods --- then we should all be thinking on just how saleable the Mitt is to those people who have had their brains Reaganized for the past 8-10 years.

Now, the Demo Party Organ that is the Bahston Globule, did alert me to said Doonesbury Strip in this article, which also tells us in very serious tones that, if you make jokes about Mitt, they will come ... meaning, the voters. It would seem to the Globule, and to the BU PoliSci Prof they do quote, that ANY publicity for Mitt is BAD publicity, simply because it will make middle-aged women voters google his image and swoon at his movie star visage.

As if. I don't think a middle aged guy with Grecian Formula touch ups is really going to turn on Ms Middle American Mom ... not when

• (a) their boys and even their girls who joined up to help America after 9/11 are being sacrificed at the altar of Smirking Neo Cons.
• (b) See above.
• (c) See above again.

Sorry about the bullets, but things always come in threes, don't they?

Mitt does seems a regular fellow on first glance, and did have the capacity for actual rational thought (at lease, at one time), as opposed to the rest of the vitriolic right. But Mr. Olympics is a sneaky customer, as all us Massholes found out.

And since he seems to have found the Mother-Lode Vein O' Gold for running his campaign, there are some big movers behind him.

Be prepared.