'Bobby Jindal wanted very, very much to be Vice President. He appeared publicly with Governor Romney after the 47 per cent comments, which the governor himself said were totally wrong.
Newt Gingrich made it clear to us he wanted to be part of a Romney administration.
Both these guys - and others - were the governor's best friend when it seemed he was on the brink of becoming our 45th President. Now they're calling him a bum. Real profiles in courage.' -- An anonymous adviser to Mitt Romney, on the ethical underpinnings of the Republican establishment, but now naming names.This is a righteous beef, and the Romney camp has every right to say it - though the folks who tried to bamboozle us, crying their candidate is being used, is still kinda weak:
Mitt Romney's duplicitous campaign resulted in duplicity - duh - good work, Igor.
I almost want to add "Does it hurt?" but that's not what this is about - just as it's not about Bobby Jindal or Newt Gingrich. I am a Republican, and this is about the real world vs. the one many wanted to see.
You simply can't win in one without acknowledging the other.
To me, this has always been about considering what may be a "transcendental" bit o' understanding - of how beliefs clutter the landscape - to lead us not just astray, but into disarray. I expect few will listen.
So - mapping out their current trajectory of accomplishments - on the next episode of Political Wilderness - A Cavalcade Of Conventional Thinkers:
Our leadership's stuck on the outskirts of nowhere, and getting no closer to civilization, while considering massage therapy to undo all their much-too-tightly-wound knots,...
Ha!
ReplyDeleteOne has to be very careful when countenancing the gods of the copybook headings, because (and this is one of the things copybooks would have taught people) one has to be very careful in believing (assuredly) that one is a devotee of the gods of the CH when in reality one is a rank whore to the gods of the marketplace. In which case you need to go back and maybe copy down some more copybook headings until you can see where you went wrong and are now going presently even more wrong because you think (assuredly) that you are so very right.
Bill should have mentioned that; it would have made his most excellent video here (and his usually are of very good quality imho) a wee bit better...more ethical (I realize that there is perhaps a subtle hint in his piece, but as mentioned in Althouse's piece, he had better realize that subtlety and introspection are not characteristics of some of his viewership -- in order to be "correct" he probably should have hit them rhetorically over the head with it, if that was indeed his goal).
And I wish I could post on Althouse's site, because I used to teach critical literary analysis/composition/rhetoric (now sadly broken up into four different courses, so as to get more money from people probably and has resulted in an incomplete understanding of any of it)...writing as ethically as possible is always important (and that entails writing well as well as trying to write with a notion of reality and our responsibility to the same).
I could care less about Romney, Jindal, and Gingrich -- of course the latter two would have whored themselves if Romney had won, but then again Romney was more than willing to play footsie with them in order to win -- you sum it up quite well with the statement about duplicity.
In the end, things like art, writing ethically, being able to think somewhat, learning how to grow potatoes and fix a flat tire even, are more vital than stupid politicians (although it is all, to sound a bit yoga-ish without the yoga, connected in some ways...imhao of course).
PW