I felt the same why when I first heard it. Who suspected that “America the Beautiful’’ had 2,173 verses - and that Mitt knew them all? Perhaps you’ve even heard dark mutterings that he belongs to a secret choral society whose clandestine goal is to replace “The Star-Spangled Banner’’ with a more singable anthem. Don’t fret on that score. If such a conspiracy were afoot, Ron Paul would have sniffed it out and sounded the alarm.
Here’s what Mitt’s up to. He hopes his speech will leave you all tingly with patriotism - and thus cranky as a hungry bear when he tells you that President Obama wants to change America into one of those dreadful European countries with no purple mountains or fruited plains. Some place, like, say, Holland, where the government evidently makes everyone ride bicycles and heat their homes with windmills, and where the gray, oily, not-so-shining North Sea is always rearing its head up the way Mr. Putin did when Sarah Palin was governor of Alaska, looking for ways to sneak through the dikes and splash bitterness and envy and socialism all over the landscape.
Why would Mitt want you to think that? This gets as complex as a John le Carre novel, but here goes: Because what Obama really wants is to make America more like Massachusetts. Specifically, more like Mitt made Massachusetts. You see, ObamaCare isn’t copied from a European country. No siree. It’s modeled after RomneyCare - and that’s made Mitt frantic. After all, the moment Obama came out for an individual mandate, which back then was an idea acceptable to Republicans like Romney and Newt Gingrich, conservatives decided they loathed it because it was an idea acceptable to Obama. That doesn’t make much sense but, hey, that’s politics.
