Romney is Weirder than The Manchurian Candidate?

Two of the Three Stooges on the Left & Talented Ted Williams Smarter Than Both

James Taranto has a subtext in his column today dubbed The New Civility which is Obama's gameplan for "killing" Mitt Romney.

“Unless things change and Obama can run on accomplishments, he will have to kill Romney,” said a prominent Democratic strategist aligned with the White House.

The onslaught would have two aspects. The first is personal: Obama’s reelection campaign will portray the public Romney as inauthentic, unprincipled and, in a word used repeatedly by Obama’s advisers in about a dozen interviews, “weird.”

“First, they’ve got to like you, and there’s not a lot to like about Mitt Romney,” said Chicago Democratic consultant Pete Giangreco, who worked on Obama’s 2008 campaign. “There’s no way to hide this guy and hide his innate phoniness.”

A senior Obama adviser was even more cutting, suggesting that the Republican’s personal awkwardness will turn off voters.

“There’s a weirdness factor with Romney, and it remains to be seen how he wears with the public,” the adviser said, noting that the contrasts they’d drive between the president and the former Massachusetts governor would be “based on character to a great extent.”

In a few moments of hilarious lucidity, Stephen Colbert deconstructed this moronic nonsense with "You mean weird like the guy in high school that was class president, prom king, that all the girls liked and who quarterbacked the football team to the state championship?"

Taranto is a bit less sardonic, but far more critical of the Manchurian Candidate Obamandias and says:

Assuming Romney is the nominee, this seems as plausible an attack as any. Certainly he is vulnerable to the charge of being "inauthentic and unprincipled."

On the other hand, does Barack Obama, the president from the faculty lounge by way of Hawaii, Indonesia and Jeremiah Wright's church, really want to run a campaign on the question of who is more "weird"? Campaign operatives tell Politico they are looking for inspiration to President Bush's campaign against John Kerry, the haughty, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat who by the way served in Vietnam. But Obama running as a regular guy is about as credible as Kerry running as a war hero.

Kerry for all those who have forgotten received three Purple Hearts for about three actions as Captain of a Swift Boat and was branded a complete impostor by about 55 [fifty-five] other Swift Boat Captains who stayed in the line of fire without faking their Purple Hearts for injuries no one can recall ever even required a band aid. The impostor Kerry promised The Boston Globe that he would authorize the Naval Department to release the details of his three [3] Purple Hearts which got him on a plane back to THE WORLD in three months so that he could testify in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee just a few months later that American soldiers were plundering and raping and killing innocent Vietnamese civilians because he had been there and had seen such mayhem himself.

Of course, his promise to The Boston Globe took place eight years ago and to this day, the impostor has not authorized the opening of his Naval records concerning his three imaginary wounds---nor has The Boston Globe made any protestations about the eight-year delay, keeping its impeccable record for imaginary journalism intact. Go to the Sports Pages if you want to get any real news from The Globe, which I read for its Red Sox and Celtics analysis---sorry, not a Bruins fan.