Emo Mitt
 Y’know…
This Time Magazine Cover.
I refuse to believe that Mitt Romney is all that into self-pity, and is asking the question… at least in quite that way.
There is no Emo Romney.
This is a Media Creation.
 Newt Gingrich isn’t perceived to have this problem, and he’s not all that far away from Mitt Romney in the poll numbers and key states.
Charles Krauthammer has a reasonable column for a conservative take on Newt versus Mitt.
Note that Global Warming has slid completely out of any conservative vantage point, and the Nancy — Newt show will surface in short order.
Meantime, I’m waiting for the “Why Don’t they like Me” for Ron Paul. But I guess there’s a big media blackout on the Ron Paul campaign, and stuff. He may just beat Romney in Iowa.
If Gingrich wins the nomination… memorize these words.
The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding. Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.
If Mitt is indeed giving that sad look, then I think Gingrich’s victory might be ascribed to this whole sale fighting attitude when things are down. Though… there are Emo Fans out there:
Gingrich, however, embodies the vanity and rapacity that make modern Washington repulsive.
And George Will sticks one up for Jon Huntsman, who… doesn’t really have any favorables or unfavorables to speak of. And who… I’m watching a little bit suspiciously, I might say. He may be the one last surprise — the final shoe to drop out of nowhere — in this contest… or he might not.