The GOP boomers want to
return to the womb, to the 1950s before they go to their eternal reward. Mitt Romney, more than anything else is a
clone, a Ronald Reagan like Zombie? A
wish for the pure white past of Leave it to Beaver and Pleasantville USA.
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| June and Ward Cleaver |
Mitt Romney is the zombie Ronald Reagan Thank you Cahir O’Doherty.
If you squint hard, and I mean hard, it's almost possible to see the outline of Ronald Reagan standing behind Mitt Romney. From a distance it's 1980 all over again.
A smiling throwback of a man who you underestimated at your peril, Reagan looked like 1950 in 1980, and that turned out to be exactly what the public wanted. They wanted rituals and figureheads that provided reassurance, they wanted yesterday, they wanted daddy. Baby boomers voted for Reagan in a landslide.
Romney's supporters, and will you be surprised to hear there aren't that many off them in the GOP, are going that a bit of the Gipper's charisma will animate their pick. But the desire is in itself a proof of their desperation, not their strength.
If you squint Romney has all the surface similarities, but it's as though all the juice has been squeezed out, all the charm, all the twinkle, all the wisdom and life experience of Ronald Reagan, seems missing. Romney is zombie Reagan. It's what the race has come to.
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| It takes two parents to raise a white child. |
