What was in the punch?

Now that Mitt Romney has all but wrapped up the nomination, he is talking about riding horses. All the while he is trying to project himself as a regular fellow. Did his head get hurt while the Etch-a-Sketch was being shaken? Those of us in Massachusetts though are used to this. When he ran before, he worked a half day or so at manual labor jobs to show us how much of a regular guy he was. Then at the end of the day the working jeans were dropped at the dry cleaners, just like all working folk.

There is also the hyped up (close to ginned up) business of the Democratic operative, Ms. Rose, noting that Mitt’s wife, Ann, didn’t work a day in her life. The woman obviously did not mean that it is not hard work raising children, but, without having to worry also about paying bills, it isn’t quite the same as the regular moms. But, despite never having worked a regular job, Mitt says she is the source of his economic advice. It explains much.

Mitt admits that President Obama didn’t cause the economic mess, but claims he has not done enough to fix the problem. Mitt’s notion is to go back to the previous Republican policies, you know, the ones that caused the problems in the first place. Certainly, he is not once bitten, twice shy.

Lost in all this is the Florida Republican Congressman Alan West, who is reviving the good old Republican days of McCarthyism. He claims that there are 78 to 81 House Democrats who are closet Communists. Why the uncertainty? Did he have trouble with elementary school mathematics, i.e., counting, or are there three who are on the fence? Did his threat of exposure save them? Does this give Mr. West the inside track on the VP nomination?

What is going on in the Republican Party? Did they all attend the same banquet and drink the same potion? Did any of them survive with a few brain cells intact? Or are those the ones that called quits?