Grease Campaign Backfires

I was really nervous these past few days. All the news media was making Romney out to be the big winner in Florida.

These troubling reports went against one of my first political predictions ever:

Craig Romney, son of pander-bear Republican presidential hopeful and to-be Tuesday Florida primary election loser Mitt Romney

And guess what I was right. Yow! McCain won Florida! I'm batting a thousand. (Now Piñera has to win). Anyway, McCain's victory came despite Mitt pandering to Hispanics through Craig Romney's Spanish.

I'm always right. Unless I'm wrong. As one of my beloved commentators pointed out in the last post also, the use of:

"Greaseball (orig, US) A derog, description of any Latin race, Italians, Greeks, Puerto Ricans, various South Americans, etc."

Despite the "(orig, US)" there's no dictionary reference so it sounds like bullshit but I'll take his word for it. I never said greaseball. I did say grease, and other conjugations thereof, in forwarding a perspective that was not mine, but one I found amusing enough to reproduce on this blog. A couple notes about that perspective:

1. It is accusing the Romney campaign of playing into stereotypes.
2. I, personally, don't even think it's true. Based on one fact: I found a few English-language videos of Craig Romney on YouTube and he looks equally greasy, or slimy, or nauseating - whatever you want to call it, it's just his personal style and has nothing to do with race, or the demographic of his audience.

I was shedding light on someone else's perspective/observation that he was upping it up to appeal to the Chilean or Hispanic demographic, and decided to leave it at that, even though I knew that to exhaust every avenue of PC fairness I ought to have elucidated my own research that Craig Romney is a pan-cultural greaser, slimer, nauseator - whatever you wanna call that icky feeling I get when I watch him speak.

Perhaps not the best decision to leave my research out, but nevertheless one that was based around leaving things out, because I've found that strategy tends to promote discussion. And it did. And my commentators have filled in the gaps. The system works.

Thanks, system.