WASHINGTON -- I first heard it two, perhaps two and a
half years ago. A sage sitting in his New York City office pronounced it. Said
the sage to me: "This is going to be the dirtiest presidential campaign in
history." I would pass on my prescient friend's name, but he is a
gentleman of high profile. It would be best if he were to continue his life
unmolested by the Living Saint in the White House, whom a benighted majority of
Americanos deposited there in 2009.
Now, roughly six months from Election Day, I fear my
friend was right. Financial donors to Mitt Romney have suffered unflattering
attention from the press, from boycotters to labor thugs to stink bomb
throwers. It is only a matter of time before the government begins harassing
them with its vast array of federal agencies. Mitt Romney himself has suffered
from the media and from assorted psychopaths. Yet, in time, what goes around
comes around, as the phrase has it. President Barack Obama will get similar
treatment, though not from the government. He controls the government, and thus
far only a sole Marine has objected to him. He is Sgt. Gary Stein, and needless
to say, he got the old heave ho.
I say I fear my friend was right in his gloomy prediction
of a very dirty campaign, but here I am telling a little white lie. Truth be
known, I relish the contumely, the dirty tricks, the ginned-up controversy of
it all. I smack my lips and clap my hands. Bring it on! Let us see the full
spectacle of idealists and progressives revealing their true selves, their lust
for power, their libido for slander. Let us see their naked souls. Bring on the
dirty stuff! Frankly, I am never happier than when I see a refined Liberal
acting illiberally, even criminally.
Already we have seen the venerable "Washington
Post" rummaging through Romney's past. Almost fifty years ago, he was a
bully and anti-gay, committing other horrors I dare not repeat in this, a
civilized forum of opinion. Well, maybe Romney was innocent. Maybe it was Adolf
Hitler's high school days that the illustrious "Post" researched or
Benito Mussolini's or Stalin's. It does not much matter. The "Post"
gets things wrong. Romney's alleged victim is dead. His family claims the
"Post" mischaracterized the unfortunate man who is now deceased. And
there are journalistic problems with the "Post's" reports on all the
other alleged witnesses. But who cares? It was a good story. Next will come
accounts of even greater misbehavior by the otherwise suave and decorous
Republican candidate. He picks his nose in public. He has halitosis. He walked
out on a bill in 1963 and never tried to pay it back.
President Obama's day will come. He was born in a foreign
country, possibly a Communist country. He is a Muslim, possibly a Muslim
cleric. He never washes his hands after using a public comfort station.
Occasionally, he does not even avail himself of a public facility. Some sleuth
will produce pictures! John F. Harris, in his presidential biography of Bill
Clinton, between pages 224 and 225, produced a picture of the Boy President and
Al Gore participating in statecraft in a public restroom. It was a presidential
first. So we already have come pretty coarse pictures of Democrats in action,
and Harris was a friendly biographer. Now let the Obama haters have their say.
Actually, I may have contributed to the impending
outbreak of vitriol and mayhem in the coming presidential campaign by referring
in my current book, "The Death of Liberalism" (Thomas Nelson, Inc.),
to the most spendthrift president ever as "the stealth socialist." I
was joking, of course, exaggerating the particulars of Obamacare, which
nationalizes one sixth of the American economy, satirizing Obama's attempt to
buy up heretofore private corporations, and with taxpayers' money place bets on
Solyndra and other of Obama's green friends. He also has attempted to extend
federal control over the banks and other financial institutions with the likes
of Dodd-Frank. I think the case can be made for Obama's stealth socialism, no?
How about calling it Corporatism?
Alas, apparently out there in the Kultursmog this goes too far. I can speak facetiously about Obama, the stealth socialist, on Fox News, talk radio, and C-SPAN, but not on ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN. In fact, on CNN I have been disinvited from a show. The claim was that calling Obama "the stealth socialist" was rude. Yet what about the charges against Romney? They have all been made on the above networks, and poor Romney has to go through the laborious procedure of saying he cannot recall incidents from 50 years ago. Anyway, if he was a rowdy high school jerk, he is now sorry. That is the double standard that will obtain in this election.
It is all going to be a spectacle to watch. Yet in the
end, I have predicted in "The Death of Liberalism" that Romney will
win. The conservatives and independents outnumber the Liberals by a staggering
majority, and they are alarmed by the deficits that have been rung up by
the...ah -- try this, the prestidigitator of a mixed economy in the White
House. How is that, my friends in mainstream media, or is prestidigitator still
too rude?
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