Congratulations, Mitt Romney. You did something no one else ever had before. You inspired me to actually post a comment on the 2001 al-Qaeda attacks on the American East Coast.
While I could tick off quite a few memories about that 9/11, the one that stands out now is the silence that followed for about 36 hours. No one started blaming other Americans for the attacks. Even Jerry Falwell waited waited until the morning of 13 September to make
his infamous remarks from Jerry Falwell on Pat Robertson's show. The fact was that it took about that long just to figure out what had happened in Manhattan, Washington and Pennsylvania.
Here in 2012, Money Boo Boo couldn't wait. Even
before the assassination of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi, Libya,
he decides to attack the Obama administration for being "disgraceful" and suggests that the President would "sympathize with those who waged the attacks." Sure, it's another neatly packaged set of lies, designed to please the racists and Dominionists in his base -- but that's not my point. Why couldn't this wait a day or two? Why couldn't Romney and the GOP respectfully mourn Steven's passing (and those of at least three other American diplomats), then launch the outrageous attack?
Why should I bother even asking those questions? To make sense, you'd have to assume that Mitt Romney and his supporters had some decency. That assumption is questionable, to say the least.
