I’m pretty sure this is the Mormon equivalent of swearing up a blue streak:
Mitt Romney is sharpening his warning to Republicans about the consequences of nominating Newt Gingrich, declaring in an interview on Wednesday: “Zany is not what we need in a president.”
“Zany is great in a campaign. It’s great on talk radio. It’s great in print, it makes for fun reading,” Mr. Romney told The New York Times. “But in terms of a president, we need a leader, and a leader needs to be someone who can bring Americans together.”
Not only is equating your opponent to a word you just discovered in a Bazooka Joe strip bad form, Romney’s history is wrong. There were plenty of zany presidents. The only question is: Who was zaniest?
Nixon was the zaniest. His whole presidency was an Andy Kaufman-esque piece of comedic brilliance. You guys didn’t think he was serious, did you?
Teddy Roosevelt challenged visitors to wrestling and boxing matches, and apparently had a mat with the New York seal on it when he was governor. Gifford Pinchot duked it out with him. This is zany.
(source, Big Burn by Timothy Egan — a fun read).
Bush the second. All the way. That guy was a gas!
just as an fyi, Romney was repeating his interviewers from New York Times (they used the word zany). i know this because i was, for some reason, watching The View this morning and this was one of their topics of conversation.