Mitt and Paul's Crazy Week

Well a new comedy hit the road this week. Mitt and Paul. So much has happened this week, so little of it significant that I thought perhaps the best way to address it all was with a few bullet points. Keep in mind they are in no particular order of importance because I do not know if any of it is important.

We learned this week that if one wants to, and if one wants to perhaps an examination is in order, one can find pictures of a shirtless Ryan, Romney, Obama, and even old Joe on the internet. Let's be glad Hillary is not on the ticket.

We learned that Mitt Romney has gone over his taxes, since we were all so curious, and found that yes, in fact, he has paid at least an average of thirteen percent taxes over the last ten years. Wow, that makes me feel better. He will not however be proving it, he just asks us to trust him.

We saw a Romney spokesperson asked if Mitt would invest in a business that only provided two, and two incomplete, at that years of tax returns. We all smiled knowingly.

Mitt Romney late last week, with a straight face, told us that he did not even know when his wife's Olympic sport took place. Seriously if your wife was involved in Olympic Basket Weaving and you were allergic to straw you still would know when the event was and would be there watching. One one hand is Romney trying to distance himself from this perceived effeminate and tra la la sport, on the other he is telling his wife that what she has invested in is not worth his interest. Either way Mitt cannot win on this one. Oh yes, he could say this is important to my wife so I am going to be there to support her.

Another Romney spokesperson stated that Romney had a Medicare plan but was not going to release it's specific's because then they would " lose." Seriously, I am not making this stuff up.

Better yet Romney's team said he had a plan to fix the tax code, but again would not be talking about it until after they were elected.

Ladies and Gentleman. In my hand under this blanket I have something you will like, if you would please just give me a cashier's check for 10K I will then let you see what you have purchased. Again, I tell you, you cannot make this stuff up. Romney does not even respect us enough to lie in specifics, he comes right out and tells us we are too dumb to need to know, just trust him.

Then last night I read a report that talks about the former head of the California Republican Party urging all Republicans to abstain from voting for Romney on the first ballot at the convention. Why? He states that Romney's company Bain has made hundreds of millions from an investment in a company that has become one of the if not the leading medical waste disposal company in the country. Much of those profits come from the disposal of aborted fetuses. We can all agree this is an awful subject and a sad necessity but to the right Romney's making money from abortons might not sit well. This, they claim, is why his tax returns are so toxic.

I do not claim to know the truth but seriously. A man with bank accounts in the Cayman Island, Swiss bank accounts, an outsourcing wizard, a venture capitalist that bleeds companies dry, and keeps the proceeds for himself while employees are often left in the street. A man who has no opinon he cannot change, abortion, healthcare, and recently, shockingly, his opinion of the Ryan budget and Medicare plan which a week after he chooses Paul Ryan as his Vice President we see him running away from.

One thing I do know. This election cannot be about Mitt Romney. If it is he will lose, with the amount of money gathered on the right to defeat Obama, expect some incredible ads, incredible allegations, and incredible hated to start spewing. We in Maine will be somewhat protected from this. Our state is for the most part considered blue and thus a great deal of money might not be spent on ads here.

We have our own issues of course. LePage's lapdogs are all running again this time and business interests looking to make sure he takes on unions and other enemies of big business will be spending as much as necessary to try to keep his majority but perhaps we will be insulated from some of the bile at the top.

Look there are good Republicans out there, there are respectable, ethical, solid Republicans out there that would do a credible job as President. Mitt Romney is not one of them. Sad to say, shocking to say, I would have voted for Bush the Jr before I voted for this clown.