Ever since Mitt Romney joined in attacking Barack Obama for saying, “If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets, and President Musharraf will not act, we will,” I’ve been trying to think up a descriptive nickname for ol’ Mitt.
But I’m in a rut. Maybe because his name reminds me of, say, a catcher’s mitt, all my ideas seem to have some sort of baseball theme.
I thought of Mitt “The Ump” Romney, because he’s declared al Qaeda Safe! Safe! in Pakistan, unless President Musharraf takes them out. But it’s not a good nickname, because an ump also calls strikes, and Mitt won’t do that.
I thought of “Miss Mitt” Romney, as in “a swing and a miss,” but Mitt won’t take a swing. That led me to “Checked Swing” Mitt Romney, but a checked swing usually indicates a sharp hitter laying off a bad pitch. Swinging on a good pitch only with a signal from some guy in the stands — that’s a different kind of thing.
Right now I’m thinking “Bush League” Mitt Romney.
Mitt is the guy who said he didn’t want to close Gitmo, he wanted to double it. If he’s not going after al Qaeda leadership, who’s he planning to put down there? People who make fun of him, I’ll bet.
Bush League. Yeah.
Spink Nogales | 10-Aug-07 at 12:12 am | Permalink
john stewart (08/09/2007) did a pretty good job of showing how romney’s sons are serving the troops by trying to get their dad elected.