Thursday, October 02, 2003

California Screamin'

Mitt Romney, the Supreme Onancrat of Massachusetts and Kolobian Viceroy is flying out to California this weekend to campaign for Arnold Schwarzenegger.
This seems more than a little odd to me, Arnie has huge name recognition, what can an obscure Governor of Massachusetts who hasn't even booked a year in office do for the terminator?
Romney is so hopelessly obscure, that his chief target constituency in the far off Golden State must be the Mormons.
Political connoisseurs will recall that Willard Mitt Romney is also a Bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints.
A very powerful Bishop.
Now on the face of it, serious LDS-ers might be inclined to eschew a womanizing, pro-choice, steroid-addled amateur demagogue in favor of a known rightical chic quality like State Senator McClintock-a stern conservative monolith if ever I heard one.
So therefore it is fair to speculate that Schwarzenegger still needs to shore itself up on the right as we roar into the final weekend of the recall campaign.
Allegedly the aging Austrian mesomorph is ahead in the polls but with 150+ names on the ballot every vote counts in a situation where the tiniest plurality could mean victory.
Thus every Mormon counts in the present paradigm.
Hence Romney's precipitous flight west.
And of course Mitt is probably glad to get out of the Commonwealth, to date his two main accomplishments have been forcing Billy Bulger into an early carefree retirement and appointing Dollar Bill Monahan, the wastrel of Belmont Mass and a notorious Mafia jobber to the Civil Service Commission.
No doubt Romney will tour the local Mormon meeting houses on Saturday-Sunday...in fact I'll speculate that there will be little media coverage of his visit if it all goes well.

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