Bush & Company

Mitt and Newt, Newt and Mitt---media journalists and pundits are absentmindedly calling Mitt Newt and Newt Mitt as the two adversaries role reverse.

Reactionary Far Right voters, resentful and rebellious, want a ruffian for their presidential candidate, one who will shamelessly, even mendaciously, demolish his foes.

This was Newt Gingrich before his religious conversion and he's now, at least partially as a protective gambit, preaching against negative campaigning, while Mitt, once cautious and aloof, is attacking with the slanderous techniques previously employed by his rival, perhaps learned from the late Lee Atwater and his pupil, Karl Rove.

In compensation, Mitt's falling back on his exemplary family life as a contrast to Newt's chequered marital past.

Both, however, now favor Paul Ryan's budget plan to destroy Medicare.

Attempting to distance themselves from themselves, Mitt and Newt are becoming each other.

They're switching places, Newt and Mitt,
Mitt the attacker, Newt grown kind;
And yet, as they're alike in name,
They're fundamentally the same.

In practice I think that you'll find
Both are of the unprincipled kind;
Goal motivated, of one mind---
To win or know the reason why.

How willingly they tell a lie!
In essence they're not far apart---
They share a shady blackguard's heart.
Mitt or the Newtster, Newt or Mitt,

The bottom line---they're both unfit.