Chasing Romney...

An attempt by Humble Elias to see Citizen Romney "In the Flesh" at Caesario's Pizza in Manchester New Hampshire ended in abject failure this morning.
Apparently the campaign called the pizzeria that very morning and cancelled the event...the staff was put out to say the least by the slight.
Two more votes lost right there.
Romney's jittery acting staff in his Manchester Headquarters told Humble Elias that the appearance had been dumped in order to squeeze in more debate preparation.
The GOP presidential slat foes mano a mano in the Thunderdome (Okay I KID the Dana Center for Performing Arts) at Saint Anselm College tonight at 7:30pm EST.
One might infer that so much "debate prep" comes from a need to put the kibosh on McCain "by any means necessary".
Thus Humble Elias is speculating that tonight's debate will quickly degenerate into a harsh slugfest with Mitt Romney desperately trying to whang John McCain in the noodle with a rhetorical shovel without compromising his sunny optimist bona fides.
Good luck with that plan Mitt...

Romney's numbers are down in New Hampshire...

and of course, his lackeys are spinning it like tops gone mad on crystal meth.
"We PLANNED it this way!" or so they chorus, this is very bloody groan of some teenaged lout who tried to jump his mountain bike over some milk crates and ended up going thru the windshield of a parked car.
Boy lemme tell yuh, this is an object lesson in the limitations of money & media driven politics; a big six million dollar ad-buy in New Hampshire only goes so far for a candidate renowned for his inexperience, craven disposition and opportunism.
What is amazing to me is that Romney has actually sunk to a position in the polls that John McCain is suddenly competitive...hell a mere three month's ago I was laying odds that the mercurial Arizon hothead would be out of the game by Labor Day.
Shows yuh what Humble Elias knows.