Centerfield

Mitt Clintoney

Now is as good a time as any to notice that folks on the right have been gleefully joining in the attacks on Clinton "mudslinging." This chorus will quickly dwindle to abject silence when Mitt Clintoney turns his eyes to the general election. Practices that today are being said to have led to the deserved rejection of Bill and Hillary will morph into righteous truth-telling come fall. I wish there were a way to bet on this in Vegas.

Also, please let me know whether or not Mitt has continued to talk uo his plans for the government to partner with the auto industry since he left Michigan. I guess he has other stuff on his mind. Probably busy with research for his upcoming "a pony in every pot" speech.

The fox news ticker reported today that Mitt has been saying that John McCain will say anything to get elected. How much irony can a Mitt-chuck chuck if a Mitt-chuck could throw sheer bullcrap at the wall and see what will stick?

If anyone runs across a photo-chronicle of Mitt Romney's wardrobe changes (the physical ones, not the philosophical ones), please let me know. I caught Mitt's untucked and tieless white cotton crested shirt at a speech to Florida Cubans yesterday. Strangely, Mitt didn't seem that interested in chatting about border fences and punitive immigration policy. Go figure.

Setting aside all the piling on above, let me say that I'm not reflexively anti-Mitt. He did a decent job as my governor in MA. He's capable, intelligent, and has executive experience both in the biz world and in state government. Notably more successful as an autocrat than a bureaucrat, but still. Now it seems to me that he is dangerously close to utterly losing his mind. In his zeal for votes, he's bordering on incoherence, never mind over-promising. Start standing for a reasonable and consistent set of things Mitt, or taste the skewers.