I did some calling around yesterday, trying to get quotes reacting to Mitt Romney’s sudden France-hating, anti-Jihad implosion. And as much as it hurts to say, Howie got it right today – getting dead does do a lot for your popularity. Here’s a guy who, four years after mercilessly excoriating John Kerry as a fake, up and tried to fake his way clear to the White House. It doesn’t work. So what happens? The people in his own party – both those who were with him, and those working against him – praise him for exiting graciously and talk up his bright, bright future. Get your shades, son.
And what of the reaction from Massachusetts Democrats – people who have, more or less, spent the past six years battling Romney, cursing him, serving as the punchlines in his rightward-pandering jokes, and lobbing one nasty quote after another towards reporters? What do they say when this man fails?
Nothing. (more…)
