But when it comes down to the theater of the absurd, it is hard to beat the surfacing of the political cadaver that is Mitt Romney who joined the Russian bashing on NBC's Meet the Press with David Gregory on Sunday morning. Mr. "47 percent," being a self-proclaimed authority on all things Olympic after his involvement with the 2002 winter games in Salt Lake City, Utah, smacked Putin around for (get this) spending too much money to "cynically, to show off the politicians in a country." I excerpt the following from The Guardian:
"Mitt Romney has condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin for spending billions on the Sochi Winter Olympics, as part of an 'unsavoury' vanity project."However Romney, who made his name turning around the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002 before running unsuccessfully for president as a Republican in 2008 and 2012, risks being accused of hypocrisy. Several officials who worked alongside Romney in Salt Lake City have gone on record accusing him of using the Games for his own political gain.
"Romney famously approved a series of Olympic pins bearing his own face, including one in which he was surrounded by official Games mascots beneath the slogan: 'Hey Mitt, We Love You!'
"Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, Romney complained that public funds for Olympics were being used 'cynically, to show off the politicians in a country,' and said the International Olympic Committee should cap the amount spent on the Games.
"'You don't need to spend $50bn as Russia has or as China did [for the 2008 summer Games], to put on Olympic sport. Olympic sport can be demonstrated at $2-3bn, and all that extra money could be used to do some very important things in terms of fighting poverty and fighting disease around the world.'
"He added: 'To take money from some people so that politicians can be puffed up and can be shown around the world is, I think, something that is very distasteful at a time when there is so much poverty and so much need.'"
What a stunning bit of hypocrisy given the wealthy elitist's on the record contempt towards the little people. Hell, I suppose if they could exhume Ronald Reagan's corpse and haul it around the country like some bizarre sequel to "Weekend at Bernie's," that even the Gipper would be in on the new national pastime of kicking Putin in the balls.
I mean, can it get any more absurd than trotting out Mitt Romney who crapped his magic Mormon underwear somewhere between the gross celebration of national ignorance during the endless series of GOP primaries and the fulfillment of the White Horse Prophesy? The guy is a loser and even his great wealth couldn't buy enough credibility with the party base (that never trusted the guy in the first place) to take out the vulnerable Obama.
So what if Romney was the Big Kahuna at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, what the hell has he done to keep the unconstitutional and illegal NSA out of Utah? Why is it that the LOSERS of U.S. elections can't just do the dignified thing and go away? John Kerry, John McCain and now Romney all make Al Gore look like a veritable recluse.
The Sochi Olympics can't end soon enough; the state-corporate media needs to get back to covering really important matters like the Kardashians and the Oscar Pistorius trial.
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