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Games are fun.
They are also frivolous.
This matters.
In an interview with one of his fawning water-carriers, the WSJ's Peggy Noonan, the GOP nominee for the most powerful position in the history of world said the following a few days ago:
"I think the game is like a sport for old guys. I mean, you know, I can’t compete in competitive sports very well, but I can compete in politics."This should end Mitt Romney right here.
The shocking elitism in his statement is only matched by its craven stupidity. It's bad enough to consider his even thinking this way. But, to have so little regard for the people that he would say it aloud is unlike anything I have witnessed in the last quarter century.
Politics, by his own proclamation, is simply his latest hobby. While wife Ann spends part of their fortune on her "dressage," Romney has set out to saddle the people with a more hopeless future for his own gratification and that of his monied friends.
After all, it's just a "game."
We are the pawns and pieces. We are the poker chips. He likes a good bluff so why not truck with "birthers" and "tenthers" and propagandists? Anything to win.
After all, it's just a "game."
This serves to explain Romney's staggering mendacity. Why bother to tell the truth?
It's just a "game."
Wild proclamations that Russia is our "number one enemy" don't really mean anything.
It's just a "game."
Promising the last administration's neo-cons that he will give them their third war in the Middle East is of no consequence.
It's just a "game."
A worldview in which leadership of the United States is just a shiny prize during times this turbulent and potentially transformative should preclude eligibility for any office, much less Commander in Chief.
To doubt that a Romney presidency would be a disaster of previously un-imagined proportions is increasingly naive.
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