did you feel pity for weepy eyed Ann Romney today?

[Hekate]

55. Politics is a rough game, not an effing entitlement for the uber-wealthy

I have my moments of compassion, definitely -- like for the wives and kids ritually dragged out to stand by daddy when he's either been trounced or has been caught being a complete jerk, like the Vitters. I always wonder why wifey puts up with that crap, but the kids didn't ask to be humiliated like that.

But the Romneys came waltzing in to this presidential election as though it was an entitlement of his (and by extension, hers), just the next thing to put on his resume in an already charmed life. I wouldn't be that man's wife for anything in the world, but she's made her peace with it, like the Mrs.s Nixon, Bush, and so on. That kind of political wife either loves her husband in spite of everything, or she loves the privileges of power. Whatever.

Romney is hollow. We've seen him in this campaign and we know his record as a businessman. He has no respect for either the electorate or the institutions of government, and every time his lips are moving, he's lying. No one can figure out why he even wants the office, but it can't be good.

He's been only too willing to trash anyone else who gets in his way -- he and his surrogates play dirty -- he seems to think this office should be his for the taking.

Well it isn't. You fight dirty, you're going to get hurt too. God willing you will lose, and lose badly. Electoral politics is not supposed to be settled in quiet rooms, you plutocratic jerk.

So no. I'm not in the mood to feel for Mrs. Romney's pain just now. She should just take her hubby and go the hell home.

Hekate