Outside the Beltway

CPAC – Romneybots and Browbackshirts

James Joyner · Friday, March 2, 2007 · 3 comments

I rather like Sam Brownback but don’t consider him a plausible presidential candidate. I find Mitt Romney rather smarmy and opportunistic, even by politician standards.

Until arriving at CPAC, though, I had no ill feelings about either of them. After two days of barely being able to walk around the convention center without some idiot teenager in a t-shirt shouting at me or hitting me with a poster, invariably imploring me to vote for either Brownback or Romney, though, I would sooner vote for Ralph Nader than either of those men.

So far, however, I have refrained from violence. So far.

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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm veteran. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

Comments

legion says:

Friday, 2 March 2007 at 12:01

Give in, James! Give in to the rage! Lord knows the GOP’s chances would be better in ’08 without either of those two idiots muddying the waters for – hey, waitaminute….
Triumph says:

Friday, 2 March 2007 at 12:46

I would sooner vote for Ralph Nader than either of those men.

Philosophically, Nader is much closer to your libertarian sympathies than either of those two candidates.
Anderson says:

Friday, 2 March 2007 at 16:35

Josh Marshall:

Half of Romney’s speech turns out to be making fun of Massachusetts, which I think just makes him look cheesy and like a jerk, considering he just spent four years pledged to the state. I guess he didn’t mention to the voters that he thought the state was an embarrassment.