The Mittbot gave a foreign policy speechon Columbus Day. He’s discovered, not the new world, but the fantasy President Obama. You know, the dude who runs around apologizing for America instead of deploying drones and shit. That’s right: the one who doesn’t exist. Mitt’s speech was typically vague but since all his foreign policy advisers are B-list neo-cons such as Dan Senor and John Bolton, we know he’s ready to go McCain on the world’s ass, and invade anyone who the neo-cons don’t like. Anyone? I guess I meant to say anywhere, anyhow, anyway I choose…
Time to circle back to the post title. Other than the heavy drinking and his time as a Liberal government minister, American conservatives love Winston Churchill, or at least think they do. He and Mrs. Thatcher are probably the only British PM’s they’ve heard of. Me, I’m more partial to Atlee, Asquith, the pre-Iraq War Tony Blair, and Disraeli, who makes me dizzy, but I digress. One more digression: that picture of the never totally drunk nor completely sober Winnie with the tommygun scares the shit out of me. I keep imagining some sensible chap in the back taking cover out of concern that the PM is about to fire a few rounds…
Where the hell was I? Oh yeah, an unarmed Winston Churchill. My favorite Churchillism is “better jaw, jaw, jaw than war, war, war.”
Mitt and the B-list/chickenhawk neo-cons have inverted that formula. Like John McCain, Romney never met a country he didn’t want to bomb and never saw a world crisis that he didn’t think could be resolved by military action. Of course, Senator Walnuts *actually* meant it whereas with the Mittbot ya never know. Let’s hope we don’t find out. There’s one former Republican US Senator who loathes the idea of the chickenhawk Romney as Commander-in-Chief as much as I do.
I’ll let those staunch Republicans, Silvio Dante and Tony Soprano, have the last word this Columbus Day:
