In Pharaonic America Obama is the god-king who can’t be questioned. His origins are very mysterious and his followers use this mystery as proof of his god like status. Michelle Obama even claimed that the Pharaoh has led us from darkness into the light. This is a clear reference to the divine like stature the Progressives have built him up to have. Anyone who criticizes the Pharaoh is called racist, which in reality means heretic to the Left. Well finally someone is willing to take him on.
Mitt Romney comes from the Nixon wing of the GOP. He is not a Conservative, but a Center-Left Moderate. But as we know from political history, Richard Nixon was ruthless and fought his opponents. Mitt Romney is the heir to Richard Nixon and one attribute he has adopted is Nixon’s ruthlessness. We saw this in his negative campaigning against Perry, Gingrich, Cain and Santorum. In the past week, Romney’s team has been getting the better of the Pharaoh’s Theban priests (The Media). They turned Hillary Rosen’s comments into a club that the Progressives, except Charles Johnson and Bill Maher, have backed off from. When the Progressives tried to bring back the story of Romney having his dog on top of his car, his team brought up the fact that the Pharaoh ate dogs. The Pharaonic regime is not used to getting hit back and they are rattled.
Eric Fehrnstrom wields Twitter like a torero wields a red flag. On Tuesday night, after his client and advisee Mitt Romney had spent a day making speeches about taxes, Fehrnstrom noticed a picture of President Obama playing with his dog, Bo. David Axelrod, his nemesis in the Obama campaign, had tweeted the photo to tweak Romney.
“How loving dog owners transport their dogs,” wrote Axelrod.
Get it? Axelrod was making either the 12,936th or 12,937th joke about a 29-year-old incident involving Romney’s dog, a car roof, a 12-hour drive, and dribbling feces. (The first thousand jokes were told by Gail Collins.) Bad timing. Fehrnstrom had read a blog post resurrecting the bit from Dreams From My Father wherein Obama remembered youthful digestive experiments with “dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy).”
Obama had eaten dog meat? This was too good to keep on Jim Treacher’s news blog. Fehrnstrom retweeted Axelrod and added “In hindsight, a chilling photo.” Within an hour, Jake Tapper of ABC News was out with a story titled “Romney Campaign Notes that Obama as a Boy Ate Dog Meat.” Not long after that, the Drudge Report popped a link to Tapper. One tweet from an iPad, and the Romney campaign had knocked back five years of dog stories. You’ve got a bogus controversy? Yeah? Yeah? How do ya like this bogus controversy?
Great things can grow out of stupid stories. Fehrnstrom jacked into an emerging, jokey conservative meme. It even had a hashtag: #ObamaDogReceipes. “John McCain’s presidential campaign wouldn’t have touched this anecdote with a ten-foot pole,” wrote the National Review’s Jim Geraghty. “Between this and the Romney camp’s rapid response to the Rosen comments, we are seeing a Republican presidential campaign that is exponentially faster on its feet and way more nimble than the previous general-election campaign against Obama.”
That was the point. Republican voters, the choosey people who made Romney survive three months of primaries, believe that Barack Obama won too easily in 2008. The media and the McCain campaign failed to “vet” him. I heard iterations of the theory when South Carolina Republicans blew their kingmaker record and chose Newt Gingrich over Romney. Gingrich, they told me, would “eviscerate” and “lacerate” Obama. McCain? Poor guy had his chance, and he wimped out.
The theory is sound. It’s been documented that McCain warned staff and ad-makers off of certain topics, like Barack Obama’s membership (now expired) in Jeremiah Wright’s church.
When the Theban priests give begrudging respect to an opponent, this shows they are getting beat. Mitt Romney is no John McCain, George W Bush or Poppy Bush. He is no Ronald Reagan either. Romney is the new Richard Nixon of our times. He is a ruthless Liberal Republican who will say and do anything to get the Presidency. He is taking the fight to the American Pharaoh that has caught them by surprise. After all, being coddled your whole political career and being sheltered from opposing comments makes you not used to getting hit.
Clearly the New Nixon can take a punch and hit back. The question is, can the dog eating American Pharaoh take a hit?
