the passion of the mittens

romney looked like he had a rabid honey badger gnawing on his ass while he was giving his speech tonight, but i think that he was smart to focus on obama and do his best to maintain his personal pretense of inevitability.  he will be the nominee unless the republicans are prepared to just give up, split the rock-ribbed oligarchs and the crazy racist teabagger assholes into two parties, and just not run against obama at all this time.  frankly, at that point the rock-ribbed oligarchs would be thrilled to join with their right-wing establishment democratic allies and leave the shit-eating morons behind.  what's really happened tonight is that romney has been given his whale.  gingrich isn't much of an opponent, but he's the best romney has now.  you can start the clock on newt's next major smarmy, conceited fuckup, and between the ex-wives, the serial fornication and sodomy, the self-congratulatory nonsense, the cockamamie ideas, the high crimes and misdemeanors and ethics violations, the vulgar hypocrisy, and the titanic piles of fetid bullshit, gingrich is as big a flabby target as has ever existed in modern electoral history.  unless romney really wants to outdo dear old dad and go down as a latter-day al gore, he's going to have to get his boats in the water, throw every harpoon his millions can buy, and practice his debating bullshit long enough to torment newt and exploit some of those ginormous newt gingrich weaknesses.  otherwise, he'll be such a weak nominee that it might just as well be president-for-life obama.