re: #227 Targetpractice

They wanted so badly for it to be a new Mogadishu, the watershed moment where Romney could pop up and portray himself as the guy who’d “defend America.” It’s something that they feel has been denied to them ever since the Cold War ended, that ability to go to the voters and say “Yeah, he’s a rotten SOB who’d sell your balls to the Chinese if it got him 1% on the next Gallup poll. But he’ll protect you from the Reds, and that’s what matters!”

It’s almost like they wanted a repeat of what happened to Carter…