A Stitch in Haste

So not only is Mitt Romney soulless, but so too are the moral defectives who lick his feet hoping for a future cabinet position or whatever:

America is the greatest nation on Earth. ... Now, it is our turn to take the mantle of leadership and ask, what kind of nation will we leave our children and grandchildren?

And what, according to Vin Weber, do "Americans" want in a leader?

Overcoming this new generation of challenges is why we need change. ... Our values are under attack.
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First, Mr. Romney will strengthen families in America.
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To build strong families, Mr. Romney will also defend our traditional values.

This ain't Vin Weber's first time at the rodeo. He is a classic, famous infamous politician-turned-lobbyist. He is expertly fluent in Codeword and the Politics of Wink-Wink-Nudge-Nudge. He defected from the McCain campaign to become a political mercenary-for-Mitt. He is a hired gun who will say anything for a paycheck.

So when someone like Mitt Romney pays someone like Vin Weber to use terms like "values under attack" or "strengthen families" or "traditional values," everyone knows what they really mean: blame gays, bash gays and hate gays.

Since Weber's mawkish blather is about "America" -- what America "needs" from a leader, what Romney will do for "America," etc. -- the conclusion must be that Romney believes that gays are simply not Americans. We are The Others, right up there with al Qaeda and "unfair" foreign businesses stealing Detroit jobs.

Recall Weber's premise: "Overcoming this new generation of challenges is why we need change." Like the change in Congress in 2006? Would going from George "we don't torture" Bush to Mitt "double Guantanamo" Romney somehow constitute "change"?

This is not a campaign for change -- it is precisely a campaign against change. (Indeed, isn't the very definition of "conservative" to conserve, to oppose change?)

How would President Romney's non-changes compare to President McCain's non-changes, President H. Clinton's non-changes or President Obama's non-changes? That's a question for partisans to quibble over.

But let's not pretend that Romney is anything new, refreshing or bold. There is nothing new, refreshing or bold about gay-bashing cloaked as "values voting." There is nothing new, refreshing or bold about baiting political minorities. There is nothing new, refreshing or bold about megalomaniacs seeking power, or "change," over others. There is nothing new, refreshing or bold about moral defectives proving themselves as such.