Mitt Romney. His favorite book is Battlefield Earth. Or so he said the first time he was asked. The lunatic L. Ron Hubbard wrote that useless piece of garbage. Check out Tucker Carlson’s piece on the book. (Top video in the sequence.) Carlson reads the 1st two paragraphs of the book, and he howls with laughter.

Romney was so clueless during the Dearborn GOP debate that each time he was pushed further on an issue he immediately returned to a canned remark about the line item veto. What about the line item veto, Mitt? He dodged questions of tax policy by returning the oh-so-important issue of Executive Power. What a creep. Also, when asked – several times – how we could win back economic prosperity for the US (as if this is even a logical assumption), Romney kept answering by saying we need to “develop more confidence about the future.” What a canned bit of non-defined nonsense. Ron Paul, in telling the truth about the current state of the US economy, was not “confident.” Oh, and he was so “negative.” Economic prosperity moves up and down along with “confidence,” don’t you know? So one must lie and cover the cow shit with Chanel No. 5 in order to give the appearance of a kindler and gentler whiff instead of presenting the cold-and-hard fact that a meadow muffin is a meadow muffin, no matter which way you slice it or smell it.

I also noticed an overriding theme during the deabte — a theme that, of course, involved war propaganda. (Ron Paul, in fact, called the others out using exactly that term.) Several times, the comment was made wherein the candidate would refer to “people who want to kill us.” These “people” are apparently a mystery, because who are they? “They” are never singled out, of course, for they are feeding the government’s propaganda machine with images of bunches of evil Ay-Rabs in a Darth Vader suit.

Fred Thompson is hard to hate. He’s too stupid to worry about. Several mainstream talking heads declared Thompson the debate winner because of his underdog position (his first debate in almost 15 years). What nonense. Truth is, he was “aw shucks” the entire time during the debate. He’s not particularly dangerous – meaning he’s low on the dictatorial scale – but he’s just kind of a lump. He’s very, very tall, and dwarfed all the others on stage.

One comment by Chris Matthews that about blew my bra off: the topic was replacing the income tax with a consumption-based sales tax. Mattews listened to the plan, and said (I paraphrase): “Now won’t replacing the income tax with a sales tax affect consumption levels and encourage people to HOARD instead of spend?” The word “hoard” has about as much meaning in my vocabulary as “market failure” or “war on terror.” So the assumption is, when people save, the loss to the demand side of the equation is the only thing that matters, and also, no further benefit, or prosperity, can come of savings. Someone has saved, meaning that one less plasma TV has been sold, and thus we bear witness to the calamity of selfish, ineffectual saving.

Lastly, when John McCain told Ron Paul to read the Wealth of Nations, I nearly lost it. Any moron can invoke the Wealth of Nations because 1) it’s a safe book to endorse 2) it’s the only book the non-intellectual politicos can recall on the fly, and 3) there is not one single other point these guys can make that will carry any greater marketing weight. The Wealth of Nations, for godsakes, is the most unread but supposedly read book of all time. People claim to read it because it’s chic to be thought of as having read it. You can bet that if I placed ten questions to any of these bozos, about details in the book, they would not have a script for the answer and thus they would be silent….or they would perhaps return to the line item veto topic due to the lack of anything intelligent to say.