The 47 percent aren't going away just because Completely Wrong Mitt wants us to.
In fact, our position has been identified and consolidated. We have received free, steady publicity since the discovery of the video of Completely Wrong saying all those things about us to a group of Florida Republicans. Then C.W. himself last week tried to shoo us away with his "completely wrong" comment on Fox, as if it were old news that we could forget now.
But algorithms don't work that way, in brains or computers. Some genius got the inspiration from somewhere to search "completely wrong" on Google Images and was rewarded with 332,000,000 results, most of them images of Completely Wrong himself. In marketing, you would call that "branding." The Completely Wrong Mitt brand. Let's call him CWM for short, like silk monograms on the cuffs of a fat cat's dress shirts.
Am I sounding surly? I guess so. It's part of the consolidation effect, the bonding together of the 47 percent against CWM's surreptitious insults. It doesn't help that the insults aren't true, or that they cross a line into defamation. It can start a fire in the belly, when one is defamed by a candidate for President of the United States.
I began this series of campaign blogs as pro-Obama, which I have always been, but my intention was to remain detached, above cheap, cute, name-calling. No longer. Not after what I and the 47 percent have been called. From this day on, the Republican candidate is Completely Wrong Mitt. Shakespeare could not say it better.
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