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Take your pick, Republicans. On one hand, the guy who once drove to
Canada with the family dog strapped to the roof of the car. On the
other, the guy who won his first Congressional race by criticizing his
opponent for moving his family to Washington. And then later moved his
own family to Washington, but said it didn’t count because the Senate
was different from the House.
Much of the debate involved the two front-runners squabbling, and
Santorum proved that even if the subject was rutabagas, he would still
find a way to point out that Massachusetts passed its universal health
care law when Mitt Romney was governor.
When the topic turned to a murky discussion of contraception, in which
birth control pills seemed to get the blame for rising rates of unwed
motherhood, Santorum suddenly said: “The whole reason this issue is
alive is because of the bill that you drafted in Massachusetts,
Romneycare.”
Romney then announced that everything — I think this included both unwed
motherhood and the Obama health care reform — happened because Santorum
had endorsed Arlen Specter for the U.S. Senate in 2004.
The Arizona crowd was totally on Romney’s side. This was no easy task,
since it required a lot of booing and cheering at those obscure earmark
arguments. But Mitt needed all the help he could get. He’s facing a
must-win primary next week in Michigan, which is, of course, his home
state. Along with Massachusetts and New Hampshire and California, where
he has, um, homes. Michigan appears to be the only Romney home state
where Romney does not have an actual residence.
In his attempts to make up for that oversight, Mitt has really been
laying it on thick. “I love this state!” he told Michiganders at one
campaign stop. “It seems right here! Trees are the right height!”
In another ploy to re-win the love of the state whose major industry he
wanted to send into bankruptcy, Romney got Donald Trump to record
robo-calls that will tell innocent Michigan phone answerers that Mitt
Romney, is a “good man” while Rick Santorum, is a “career politician.”
Romney thinks Michigan voters will like him better because he has earned
the respect of Donald Trump. A person who claimed he had to postpone
plans to run for president himself and save the nation because of a
conflict with the airing dates for “Celebrity Apprentice.”
Well, there’s always Santorum. The career politician! Actually, Trump
was entirely unfair on this point — Santorum has been out of office
since 2006, when he was defeated for re-election by one of the widest
margins in American history.
Take your pick, Republican primary voters. If neither one works for you,
there’s always Newt. Or Ron Paul. Some choice, dudes. Not groovy.
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