The Nice Guy Strikes Again
By Given the obvious inadequacy of the Kenyan Socialist Anti-Colonial Usurper, not to mention the grievous failure of the Democrat Marxist People’s National Convention, some conservatives are struggling to understand why a polling “bump” has developed that appears to favor the Usurper:
But even though he doesn’t use the term McCarthy is unconsciously using the “boyfriend” analogy but this time to chastise the Republicans. If Obama is the deadbeat suitor then Romney in McCarthy’s analogy plays the role of George McFly, the wimpy father of Marty McFly in the Back to the Future series. George is too timid and stuck up to aggressively fight for the hand of the damozel in distress. Without some help from the future, George would simply get pushed around.
You can almost hear McCarthy shout Romney, “propose, dammit,propose!” But all McFly can do is stutter. He’s the cinematic Willard Mitt — too tongue tied and diffident to make his play. Of course analogies only go so far. Mitt is more aggressive than George McFly.
Charles Krauthammer, analyzing the Democratic convention, is on the ‘boyfriend’ track. “Given the state of the economy, by any historical standard, Barack Obama should be 15 points behind Mitt Romney. Why is he tied? The empathy gap. On ‘caring about average people,’ Obama wins by 22 points.” In other words, Barack Obama is like one of those characters in the deodorant commercials who gets the girl with pickup moves that are obvious to everyone but the lady.
Unfortunately for both Krauthammer and McCarthy, this sort of charm — the kind that keeps ladies coming back to their boyfriends after they’ve been bamboozled, betrayed and generally given short shrift, is either something you are born with or not. President Obama, whatever his faults, has got lots of this charm. As Charles Krauthammer put it anyone who thinks everyone eventually sees through this smarminess should remember that the public’s idea of a caring person is still Bill Clinton.
Indeed. Mitt Romney is the Nice Guy, while Clinton and Obama are the Asshole Alpha Males that Chicks Always Seem to Choose Over Me. Excellent work, gentlemen.