An actual recommendation fot Mitt Romney

Sort of.  Whiskey says that Romney is a lot tougher than his cuddly exterior suggests:

Mitt Romney is not John McCain. That is something that Obama and company discovered in the “War of the Dogs.” Obama has used the fact that Romney, loading five kids, himself, and his wife in a station wagon, put the family dog in a dog carrier on the top of the car during a family vacation. It polled horribly in focus groups, and made the participants immediately have negative feelings about Romney. So, Romney’s aides went on Twitter and posted Obama’s own words in “Dreams from My Father: A Story of RACE AND INHERITANCE” about eating dog. Also, snake and grasshopper. While growing up in Indonesia. While that revelation makes Obama seem even cooler to SWPL-hipsters, for everyone else it is repulsive and more evidence of how alien and out of touch Obama is. Game, set, and match to Romney. Even the MSNBC morning crew were laughing at Obama. Eating dog beats putting the family dog on top of a crowded station wagon, in a carrier. What kind of American eats Dog? No kind, and that was the message of the laughter.

Can't argue with his post.  My problem with Mitt is that he's a statist prick, big government type.  Sorry, got all I can use.  Whisky actually touches on this nerve in a different post (and one that made me pretty uncomfortable, although I think he's right in the broad brush strokes) - the middle and working classes have come to deeply distrust government as it has degenerated into Anarcho-tyranny:

No one among the White middle class trusts the state. The late Sam Francis argued that the State among modern Western nations is basically Anarcho-Tyranny, a point echoed (though he likely never heard of the man) extensively in “Life at the Bottom” by Theodore Dalrymple, the pen name of British conservative author and former NHS and Prison doctor Anthony Daniels (no relation to the Star Wars actor who voiced 3CP0).

The State refuses to take any action that impacts key voting blocs: Blacks and Hispanics in the US, Muslims in Europe, when they violate the law. You can see this in action with LAPD Chief Charlie Beck urging driving licenses for illegal aliens and no longer impounding their cars after drunk driving arrests. Don’t worry, White drunk drivers will CERTAINLY have their cars taken. And meanwhile, the City of Los Angeles bans plastic grocery bags, fines people for putting the wrong things in their recycle bins, or even arrests them, and conducts fairly intrusive pat-downs of elderly White grandmas and White toddlers at LAX (note: that never happens to those who have Jessie Jackson, the NAACP, Urban League, La Raza, and Tony Villaraigosa on speed dial).

Quite frankly, this is why talk of "shared sacrifice" go nowhere.  Sacrifice is not shared, because favored groups are exempted.  Look at the ObamaCare waivers, granted at the discretion of the Secretary of HHS.  Anyone who thinks there is no quid pro quo for the waivers is hopelessly naive.

What's interesting is that Obama's 2008 campaign, where he ran as a Good Government, above-the-fray centrist has only deepened this cynicism.  It may be that Progressives will take a generation to recover from the Obama narcissistic dream, if they ever do.