Mittens Borrows My Riff For His Victory Speech

 Here we go again. Phrases launched from this blog have been known to regurgitate from the mouths of Republican politicians. You'd think those speechwriters for Mr. Roboto would be only just, barely competent enough to write their own material. Alas — Republicans are not that into imagination and original thought.

This is what I wrote on January 5, a reference to Ron Paul's followers: "They are the product of the Orwellian dystopian fantasy created by the actual Big Government Republicans who waged two wars off the books, enriched beyond measure their crony capitalist pals, and crushed the middle class and unions." [Emphasis mine.]

Here's what Mr. Mittens Roboto said last night, reading his speech on the teleprompter: "The middle class has been crushed. Nearly 24 million of our fellow Americans are still out of work, struggling to find work, or have just stopped looking. The median income has dropped 10 percent in four years." [Emphasis mine.]

Gee, the congruence of these two passages, the original (mine), and the phony one (Romney's) is so precise, even though the copy is making the opposite, demagogic argument, that they could flow together as if one piece with just a minor edit. Observe:

"They are the product of the Orwellian dystopian fantasy created by the actual Big Government Republicans who waged two wars off the books, enriched beyond measure their crony capitalist pals, and crushed the middle class and unions. The middle class has been crushed. Nearly 24 million of our fellow Americans are still out of work, struggling to find work, or have just stopped looking. The median income has dropped 10 percent in four years."

I know I'm awesome, but ... any way you slice it, this appropriation is pretty pathetic for the multi-millionaire Republican with pretensions of becoming president of the United States. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Use you own material, Republican asswipes.