The Cyborg Speaks...

It is a daunting thing to face Scot Lehigh’s interview with Governor Romney first thing in the morning.
The prospect of a trained journalist reduced to the status of a worshipful invertebrate casts a pall over one’s digestion to be sure.
And yet I’ve got nothing else to blog about today, why not hack away at the Viceroy and his favorite op-ed apologist?

Frankly though, for a column written in the full cry of a Presidential campaign with huge implication for local politics it was a wan bloodless affair.
Scot’s invite into the inner sanctum of Romneydom occasions nothing more than a reading of a print out listing the Governor’s alleged “vast accomplishments”.
Rest assured though, Scot jots everything down with lightning speed.
Apparently Decaf must read the “Chimes at Midnight” because it looks like he wanted to squelch rumors that he has lost all interest in Massachusetts and can’t wait to outsource us all to Thailand.
He is about as reassuring as a detour sign on Route 128.
There is something vaguely robotic about Willard but I can’t put my finger on it.
Are all the venture capital CEOs this mechanical?
Well what of it?
This is a time for robot politics…look at George Bush a President who is naught but an automaton designed by Karl Rove and built by Karen Hughes.
Who is to say that a pure simulacra like Romney cannot like rise to the same office?

Think of it, replicant candidates spouting preprogrammed talking points. with android voters caressing touch screens. and over their heads fluttering in the breeze the flag of the oncoming GOP Utopia-a numeral “8” on it’s side…symbolizing the infinite feedback possible under Republican tax-cut and spend policies.


Funny though, in the whole of this interview Scot never once brings up the issue of gay marriage. Indeed it’d be interesting to see if Mitt’s bumptious defense of heterosexuality is quite so ardent now that polls show the public’s opposition to the measure has cooled.
Guess that one wasn’t loaded onto Decaf’s hard drive.