Mitt Romney: Open for bids, not a candidacy

Willard Mitt Romney doesn't care about the Presidency. He just wants it.

If he weren't running, he'd probably be just another guy who couldn't tell you who his Senator or Congressman was. Mitt cares about three things: his faith, his family and his business. Right now, his business is running for President and that is the sole reason why he's interested.

It's his business to be interested.

It's painful to watch Romney in interview after interview where he's served up softball questions that his handlers have gone over with him time after time. Through all of that coaching, Romney finds a way to uncomfortably botch the answer or he just seems stunned. Why? The questions don't fit his interests. He doesn’t think about much outside of his zone of interests: his faith, his family and his business. And that’s the most dangerous thing about a Mitt Romney Presidency:

Since he doesn't have a foreign policy he sings the song of his neo-conservative chorus of advisors. What those advisors are, of course, are the same people who advocated the point of view in the Bush administration; a blood thirsty need for a new war with each Republican President. They need a President who speaks their language. So they write his speeches. They want a war with Iran? Simple, put it in the next speech.

We've had experience not too long ago with a President who had an empty head on foreign policy. Dubbya bought the pitch of the neo-con warmongers hook, line and sinker. The result was the one war in this country's history that truly deserves a dunce cap.

Romney won't say a word about taxes or spending that the Republican puppeteer Grover Norquist won't approve. Grover says "jump", Mitt says "how high?”

The same goes for the almighty "religious right", Romney won't utter a word that Pat Robertson and Franklin Graham haven't stamped their approval on for their political prayer book. Sometime in May I watched highlights of Mitt Romney getting an honorary degree from Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. It was probably a Doctorate of Pandering.

It should be clear to any voter paying attention that Mitt Romney is open for bids. He's sold his soul to every right wing faction that exists: the neo-cons on foreign policy, the religious right on social issues and Grover on taxes.

Why have a brain if you don't need to think for yourself?

With this cast of characters around him his only job is to do what he's told. To be bent like a pretzel into whatever political position the right wing wants him in. Watch Mitt Romney next time. His every response and every word is pitch perfect right wing talking points. He spouts the exact words the pressure groups are telling him to say.

Mitt Romney is only a candidate for president because it's his business to do so. It's been his business since his father lost his bid for the White House. Now that he's finally gotten the chance to defend the loss, he's not even a candidate. He's a speaker system.