Candace Bushnell (Carrie’s creator and alter ego) does dressage in Connecticut.*
So somehow Carrie has become Ann Romney?!
Or has Carrie gained a lot of weight, lost her taste in clothes, and become Hannah Horvath?
* “Carrie Bradshaw Died and Went to Connecticut,” Edith Zimmerman, The New York Times Magazine
Rrrrreince Preibus wants another term as chairman of the GOP. You know, cause he’s done such a bang-up job helping them develop a brilliant message, find impressive candidates, and win elections.
Fine with me — give him the job for life.
But if I were with the GOP, I’d think he should be the guy running Mitt’s car elevator and mucking out Rafalca’s stall.
Mitt in Israel today: “We should employ any and all measure to dissuade the Iranian regime from its nuclear course, and it is our fervent hope that diplomatic and economic measures will do so.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today: “We have to be honest and say that all the sanctions and diplomacy so far have not set back the Iranian program by one iota.”
Bibi, Obama has guts and Mitt does not. When it comes to Iran, you’re really better off not changing horses in mid-stream. Because you need a war horse, not a dressage horse.
Although Mitt will be at the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, he is quick to distance himself from the rich guy taint of his dressage horse, in effect banishing poor Rafalca to the roof of the car, metaphorically speaking:
“This is Ann’s sport. I’m not even sure which day the sport goes on. She will get the chance to see it, I will not be watching the event. I hope her horse does well.”
Notice he says “sport,” not “dressage.” Notice it is “her horse,” even though the horse was paid for with his Bain money.
Mitt is heading to London for the Olympics, hoping to remind us of his days running the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. That’s pretty much all he has left.
In 2008, he ran on Bain, the Olympics, and Massachusetts governor.
Now, Obamacare has made it impossible for him to run on his record as governor, since Romneycare was his big achievement. He was trying to run on his experience at Bain, but that just opened a whole can of worms which are wriggling all over his campaign strategy.
So he’s lost two legs of his three-legged stool, and now the last leg is about to get sawed off.
The Dems have just released a great video* showing that Mitt got $1.3 billion from the federal government for his Olympics. That compares to $609 million for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and $75 million for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. There is devastating footage of John McCain decrying the $1.3 billion as “outrageous,” “a national disgrace,” “an incredible pork-barrel project,” and “a rip off of the taxpayer.”
The video closes by saying that Mitt didn’t save the 2002 Olympics, the American taxpayer did.
His trip to London is going to remind us that Ann “You People” Romney goes to Europe to shop for dancing horses costing hundreds of thousands of dollars each, and that he wrote off almost $80,000 for one horse on that little peek at his tax returns he gave us.
I’m sure Mitt will get the dressage vote. I don’t think they’re losing sleep over that in the White House or Chicago.
* “The Olympic Bailout,” DemRapidResponse, YouTube
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