Notable and Quotable

We must begin today with a quote from Mitt Romney — boy will I miss this guy when he is gone — about his winning strategy. Yes, he acknowledged to a reporter, he does have a vacation home in New Hampshire, that neighboring state he was supposed to win. “It is a second home. Along with Utah, I have a second home there as well and you know there are lots of ways to continue winning across this country,” he said. Uh, OK, Mitt. Whatever.

Then there is Bill Clinton with the nerve to call the Barack Obama surge “the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.” Uh, Bill, insulting the voters is almost always a mistake. And when you ran against an incumbent president who happened to have commanded a successful war in Iraq, been a fixture in government for decades, and served as Ronald Reagan’s vice president, you wanted us to not “stop thinking about tomorrow.” You didn’t take kindly to that talk then, so try to control yourself.

Will somebody get these people some sleep?

I am handing Best Line of the Week to Rudy Giuliani, who had the best Blunt-Barack quote yet of any of his GOP rivals. Or the Democrats for that matter. “When you see their slogan ‘change,’ put right next to it, ‘Yes, they want to take the change out of my pocket,’” he said.

But Dave Barry wins the prize with this one: “I’ll be honest with you. I’m getting tired of Change. I think it’d be nice, for a change, if a candidate came out against Change, maybe with a catchy slogan like, ‘Remember: It Could Get Worse,’ or ‘Hey, At Least You’re Not Dead.’”

Now there is a guy with experience and judgment.

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