Friday, January 20, 2012
Charley Pierce has a post up today about attending a Romney rally in South Carolina.
This vision of gilded Republicanism turned out to be Cindy Costa, a Republican National Committee member. On her website she has a little poll:
Every four years-- every Presidential election cycle-- we go through the same rituals, and those rites are reported the same way, every time. The Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primaries are mused over by the likes of George Will as being an odd method for selecting a nominee because they are not states that are particularly representative of the United States as a whole. South Carolina then comes in for the same sort of critique. I'm not sure I even know what a "typical" American state is supposed to be. I know it isn't New York, which is too bad. I'm pretty sure that whatever that mythical state looks like, it's not a place I'd care to live in, and that is distressing. I suspect that the hypothetical typical state is full of people like Ms. Costa, whose resume lists her qualifications as being married, having children and grandchildren, and being a born-again Christian. Because I am an effete East Coast liberal snob I'd like to know a little about her employment history, her educational background, and some other qualifications, but the people who live in Real America know better than me. I wonder how many of those Real Americans picked an answer on her poll that wasn't "All of the above". I wonder, but I'd rather not know the answer.
I noticed her before Mitt Romney mentioned her name. I couldn't help it. It wasn't that she was so pretty, although she was a fine-looking woman. It was that she was so... Mitt.*********
She was wearing black. She had on black boots, black stockings, a black sweater, and a short black skirt. She was baubled and bejeweled. She wore enormous earrings, which were the same color as her skin, which was the same color as her hair — it was as she were made out of gold. And although she was surrounded by other establishment Republicans — although there were nothing but establishment Republicans on hand for the Mitt Romney "event" in the parking lot of the Mitt Romney for President Office here, and although they helped me remember that "establishment Republican" is just a synonym for "country-club Republican" — she stood out, because she stood in such gilded opposition to the image that Mitt Romney was trying to project....
This vision of gilded Republicanism turned out to be Cindy Costa, a Republican National Committee member. On her website she has a little poll:
What parts of Obama's agenda should we spend the most energy opposing?:
His judicial nominations
His tax and economic policies
His social policies
All of the above
Every four years-- every Presidential election cycle-- we go through the same rituals, and those rites are reported the same way, every time. The Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primaries are mused over by the likes of George Will as being an odd method for selecting a nominee because they are not states that are particularly representative of the United States as a whole. South Carolina then comes in for the same sort of critique. I'm not sure I even know what a "typical" American state is supposed to be. I know it isn't New York, which is too bad. I'm pretty sure that whatever that mythical state looks like, it's not a place I'd care to live in, and that is distressing. I suspect that the hypothetical typical state is full of people like Ms. Costa, whose resume lists her qualifications as being married, having children and grandchildren, and being a born-again Christian. Because I am an effete East Coast liberal snob I'd like to know a little about her employment history, her educational background, and some other qualifications, but the people who live in Real America know better than me. I wonder how many of those Real Americans picked an answer on her poll that wasn't "All of the above". I wonder, but I'd rather not know the answer.
// posted by Bill @ 10:26 AM 
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