Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Quote of the Day (Richard Cohen, Likening Romney to ‘Archie’s’ Reggie)

"Mitt Romney is starting to get on my nerves. He reminds me of Reggie, the rich, handsome, athletic and effortlessly superficial character in the “Archie” comics. He does almost everything well, and he looks like a million bucks (leveraged for much more), but he rings hollow, like the class president who would bring glee to all of Riverdale High by slipping on a banana peel. I’d kill for that.”—Richard Cohen, “Romney’s Aw-Shucks Rhetoric Rings False,” The Washington Post, January 9, 2012

1 comment:

Ken Houghton said...

Reggie was handsome, with that slicked-back hair?? And rich, with those clothes that were barely better than Jughead's, and certainly not on a par with Veronica's??

(I'll give you that he clearly had more money than Archie or Betty, and that he dressed better than the former [not a high hurdle; so did Moose], but I never had the impression that he was anything more than a Kiwani/Rotarian's kid. While Willard's dad ran a Large Corporation, a la Mr. Lodge.)