Category Archives: Politics

The Florida intra-party slugfest begins with this Romney ad in Florida.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63n6N11mrO4

“Newt Gingrich, is, of course, unelectable” says (to pick just one example) TalkLeft in “Great News For Dems: Newt On The Rise”.

This because Newt Gingrich seems to be trending up quickly and very substantially in South Carolina, while Romney is collapsing in South Carolina and nationally too.

Thing is, I remember when we said Ronald Reagan was unelectable.

Even the DNC can make fun of Mitt Romney on the issue of taxes and his tax returns.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBLtc1vmN7I

Given what a softball Mitt lobbed at them, basically hanging himself, I wish they had hit it out of the park, but this still pretty good. The steel drum version of ‘America the Beautiful’ at the end is an inspired touch.

The Stephen Colbert surreality roadshow continues.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_99bERg0o1U

Herman Cain makes a cameo.

The phone rang. “It’s Elizabeth Warren,” my wife said.

I assumed it was a recording.

It was not a recording. It was the candidate herself, charming and at once folksy and erudite, asking for help on her campaign.

How could I refuse?

It began with ‘I am a Super PAC and So Can You’. Then Colbert turned over his Super PAC to Jon Stewart in order to enable the creation of a Presidential exploratory committee … and then Colbert was interviewed on ABC’s This Week about his Presidential ambitions by no less than George Stephanopoulos.

Colbert chewed him up and spit him out.

The Super PAC has hit the ground running. It began its new independent-from-Colbert incarnation with this instant classic advertisement, Mitt Romney (Serial Killer):

Then they went after Newt Gingrich in Double Negative:

And now he’s released the totally unrelated Super PAC has released this latest Herman Cainiod jem:

In addition to these acts of national conscious-raising, Colbert has already forced Huntsman from the race. Huntsman withdrew when polling showed Colbert running ahead of Huntsman in South Carolina.

But wait. Do you think a comedian should not be messing with the important business of picking a GOP candidate? Not to worry, the Colbert Super PAC agrees, and is running an anti-Colbert commercial too: