"I second the motion"

Dear Dr. Bones,

Will the sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain hurt his campaign? david | Sun, Oct 30, 2011 10:51 PM EST This is sort of a follow-up to Charley’s post about the tragic state of the Republican presidential field (...) don’t assume that Mitt Romney has retaken the lead.

Mitt Romney doesn't need to "retake" the lead. Last I checked he was ahead in four early states, and I still don’t know how Herman Cain got all the press to begin with. Why was some random businessman given more credence than any of the other no-namers on the NH primary ballot as I posted the other day? I mean BEFORE a few polls showed him gaining ground, only I’m convinced because the press covered his crazy comments. My money is still on Romney to be the nominee. christopher @ Mon 31 Oct 12:27 AM

Given her exalted standing -- on top of the Great Blue Hill, as it were, not to speak crudely of socioeconometric and tertiary-educationalist feats -- and her resulting wide horizons, your typical Blue Blazer probably does not entertain the damnfool propositions here implicitly attributed to her, neither (A), that our MA’s dear old Mittens has been overshadowed by a no-’count person of pizza, nor the much more jaw-dropping (B), that America’s Otherparty is in a "tragic state." (What, in the proposed system of nomenclature, a ‘farce’ would be, it boggles this keyboard to imagine.) [1]

As the Duke of Wellington insightfully said, "If you believe *that*, sir, you would believe anything."

Accordingly, I homologate the sentiments of the previous poster, EXCEPT FOR the words "only .... because the press covered his crazy comments," which smack of Rio Limbaugh. _Nihil est in journalismo quod non prius in populo_, or at least the scribbler and his employing corporation invariably *thought* that their rubbish would find some echo in the bosom of Vox Pop.

Moralisation is far more likely to actually lead to an outcome when pointed at oneself before pulling the trigger, so whenever "the press" seems to be conspiring to advance utter tripe and baloney, let Master Narcissus ask himself, "¿How, exactly, did I lead them to think that I might want to buy that odious gunk of theirs?" [2]

Happy days.
--JHM

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[1] Genuine tragic pscenarios can be devised, they always can, but to be plausible about this material they must start from 20 January 2013 rather than end 6 November 2012. I myself am at present working on a YaleoDra™a to star POTUS Mittens. It is tentatively titled "Two Dips and a Nosedive."

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[2] Miss Cerulea Birdseye, who has appeared already as "your typical Blue Blazer" , can require no advice from the likes of us humble, yet I mutter to myself under my forelock that she, too, might not unprofitably wonder what theory of herself is held by Engineers of the Human Soul who can take for granted that she takes Pizza Man _au grand sérieux_.

Something to do with Social Daltonism, I betcha the explanation has. But "this is neither the time nor the place for...." .

The ‘tragedy’ _shtyk_ is easier to work out: the Engineers must (with me) suppose that Miss Birdseye thinks it would be impossibly _louche_ and prole of her to laugh out loud at the Otherparty clown show. ’Tis far more genteel (_sc._, Beanville-Brahmanical) to furrow one’s brows and wonder, with crocodile gravity, how the sweet Republicanine puppies *can* ever have gotten themselves into such a thoroughly unsatisfactory kerfuffle..

(( I expect Miss Cerulea Birdseye has quite as much fun at the circus as anybody else, perhaps more than most of us. But one would never guess it to look at her. ))