The Problem with Mitt Romney

Over the past few months, or longer, while watching one crazy right wing fanatic after another torch and burn, or what we in Canada call a Carolyn Parrish Mouth Before Mind Moment, I continued to be relieved.



However, after listening to one more, I'll do anything to be elected comment from Mitt Romney, I'm beginning to think that he might actually be the worst possible president.

Here's my logic. Let's take a narrow minded fellow like Rick Santorum as an example. In his case, if you don't think his way, it's the highway. Sounds terrible right, but, at least he's consistent. You know where he is going to stand on every issue and you know he will consistently stand there. So, you work around it.



In the case of Mitt Romney, he just wants to be president. Nothing matters to him as long as he achieves that end. With that in mind, to woo the right wing of the Republican Party and it's Tea Party fans, he's made statements like, he's a hunter, which he later clarified as a small game hunter, like rodents. Who hunts rodents? Then he claims that he really had nothing to do with health care in Massachusetts allowing birth control. He says the courts did it. Well he's no dummy and he certainly knew when the bill was written that if it said nothing about birth control being excluded, it wasn't. The courts simply upheld the law. What about immigration reform and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, or at the least, their children FLIP. And of course, his 'severely conservative remark'. That one isn't a flip flop, it's a slip. I am sure that in their backroom discussions, Romney and his advisers refer to the right wing crazies as the severely conservatives, sort of like severely ill, etc.


So, why is this so scary. Let's say for a moment that he wins the presidency. What happens next, he is faced with his first bill from a severely Tea Party House and it is severely scary. He doesn't care. He just passes the thing, because otherwise, no chance of re-election. This will go on for 4 years. YIKES.

Looking at it that way, I think I prefer a predictable crazy to a no scruples Romney. In either event, like in all elections, the severely normal pray that the severely undecided make a severely intelligent decision about re-electing President Obama.

Why do all the scandals happen in Mississauga-Erindale?

I have lived in the Mississauga Ward that is now called Mississauga-Erindale since 1981 and over the years, whenever there is a problem MP or MPP or City Councillor, the odds are good that the offender represents my ward. What's up with that?

For those of you who need a refresher course, my ward has consisted of the following notables:

In the late 1990's our provincial MPP was John Snobelen. You all know John, he's the high school drop out who Mike Harris appointed Minister of Education and who was taped saying that in order to shake up the educational establishment, his government intended to create a crisis in Education. They certainly did that. Thanks to Mr. Harris' government, the teachers of Ontario became the villains, my kids kept missing classes due to strikes, and in my opinion, the educational system became a disaster.

Of course, who can forget those wonderful years when Carolyn Parrish was our MP. Not to rehash old sillyness, Carolyn was finally thrown out of the Liberal Party after a series of incidents that began on Feb. 26, 2003 when she commented "on camera" after learning about the U.S. initiative in Iraq, Damn Americans... I hate those bastards. (see CBC News Indepth http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/cdngovernment/parrish-carolyn.html).She did later apologies, but as the above article relates, that was just the tip of her bad mouthing and rebelling against the party iceberg.

Our next "colourful" figure was Omar Alghabra who served as our MP from 2006-2008. And, during the Liberal leadership debate was allegedly linked to a document that was circulated around the convention floor informing everyone of Bob Rae's wife's involvement in a Jewish organization that the document claimed was a terrorist group. I watched the convention as it was unfolding and while I personally cannot confirm or dispute Mr. Alghabra's involvement in the disgraceful document, I do remember that when confronted by a reporter about the contents of the document, Mr. Alghabra did not back away from it's content. I think a lot of this is just smoke as Mr. Alghabra is young and as he once said personally to me in a phone conversation, I had no idea about the pressures he felt from certain ethnic groups. It's too bad that politicians of all stripes can't just come out and say, that's a smear campaign and I want nothing to do with it (ala. the Swift Boat stupidity).

So, just as it looked like life was quieting down, along comes Mr. Dechert, our current MP and the Chinese "sexpionage" (See Toronto Star, Nov. 30, 2011 http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1095046--tory-mp-s-affair-likely-chinese-sexpionage-former-spies-say ) scandal. Why does all political insanity in Canada seem to have a link to Mississauga-Erindale.

Hazel, can you please check out our water supply?