Watching Republicans Eat their Young!

So, now it's Mitt. After victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, Mr. Romney has emerged as the man to beat in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.    And the attack dogs are out in full force. Many of the anti-Romney ads are downright vicious.

Newt Gingrich is behind a lot of these "Willie Hortonesque" ads.  Apparently, some companies taken over by  Romney's investment firm Bain Capital  went bankrupt and left workers "high and dry." That's a grave sin, according to Newt Gingrich, who has no chance of winning the nomination, but apparently just likes to be a horse's ass when it comes to Romney.  A Gingrich backer recently gave Newt $5 million to keep on attacking the front runner.   Newt's newest ad calls Romney "pro abortion"--which to a Republican is pretty awful indeed. It's like saying they believe in science or something. 

Rick Perry--another also-ran with no chance of winning--has jumped on the name-calling bandwagon, calling Romney a "vulture capitalist."  I'm thinking calling a Republican businessman a vulture capitalist is an oxymoron, but that's just me.  I guess his attack ads make about as much sense as his "positive" ads, where he vows to send Congress home, a power which does not rest in the executive branch.  Three words, Rick: Separation of Powers.  I'm predicting Rick will drop out after South Carolina and go back to Texas, where people don't think he's dumber than a box of rocks.

But, before we get all teary-eyed about poor little Mitt, he has some pretty nasty ads of his own, mostly attacking Gingrich for his "mistakes," including agreeing with Nancy Pelosi one time (that BITCH!).

However, my favorite political ad of this campaign wasn't generated by one of the candidates still in the race, but by Michele Bachman's PAC.  This is the ad that compares Michele to Tim Tebow.  Seems kind of a stretch for me, but it apparently worked in Iowa, driving hoards of football fans out to caucus. Oh wait . . .

Ron Paul, who finished 2nd in New Hampshire, has been running some pretty nasty ads himself, mostly attacking Rick Santorum.  Santorum was the big "winner" in Iowa, finishing second to Mitty-poo.    In New Hampshire he finished a disappointing fifth, behind Romney, Paul, Huntsman, and Gingrich.  Iowans may not know much of Jon Huntsman because he basically skipped our caucus.   He doesn't have much a chance because he believes in evolution and we just can't have that kind of madness in the Republican party.

Watching the Republicans bad mouth each other is certainly interesting, but it begs the question: does it do ANYONE any good??  Does these vitriolic ads help the nation? the economy? the general welfare??  I'm thinking it doesn't even help the Democrats--because we do the same darn thing when it is our turn to fight it out in the primaries. 

Does my smart-assy writing style do anything to make this world a better place--other than make fellow liberals chuckle occasionally?  Probably not.  Perhaps we should all raise the level of our rhetoric--starting with me.

Nah!