Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Slate's John Dickerson always does great stuff, but his synopsis of Mitt Romney's speech at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference is even better than usual: "Romney is so polished on the stump his handlers are going to have to
schedule a lot of whimsical, impromptu off–the-record moments of
natural expression during the campaign. This might have been the goal
when Romney opened his speech by singing the lyrics to "Davy Crockett"
and altering the last line to, "Doctorrrr, Doctor Bill Frist, king of
the wild frontier." This sucking up to the hometown favorite coupled
with Clark Griswold
goofiness made me want to dive under the desk out of embarrassment for
Romney and mankind. The audience didn't care. They liked him and were
still talking about him two days later."
Perfect. You can find Dickerson's treatments of all the presidential hopefuls who hit Memphis last weekend here. Also, be sure to check out his final analysis of the SRLC proceedings, which includes an intriguing Elvis/GOP analogy.
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