"All of us felt really bad for him tonight."—GOP
Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, after Texas Governor Rick Perry
stumbled mid-debate to name the third Cabinet department he
would eliminate if he wins the Presidency, quoted in Luke Johnson, “Rick Perry'Oops' Moment: Newt Gingrich Jokes About GOP Candidate,” The Huffington Post, November 10, 2011
Campaign observers accustomed to Bachmann assailing
her primary rivals as “frugal socialists” are liable to have done a double-take
when the Minnesota Representative commented on the Texan’s tangled two-step the
other night at the debate.
There are two ways to react to her sudden attack of
compassion. The first is the puzzled, wry comment of James Bond upon learning
that Pussy Galore had come to his aid in Goldfinger:
“I must have aroused her maternal instincts.”
The other is a variation, substituting “Washington”
for “Hollywood” and “candidate’s” for “producer’s,” on the immortal quote by
the great radio comedian Fred Allen: “You can take all the
sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.”
Guess which notion I subscribe to?
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