The CEO President

Romney is really in trouble. Congressman, Senate candidate, and religiomisogynist Todd Aiken is still in the Senate race despite Mitt's call for him to step aside. Mittens looks weak and foolish.  Talk about the emperor not having any clothes.  Romney has no goddamn clout within his own goddamn party. If this were 2000 or 2004, you could bet that a Karl-Rove-led death squad would have eradicated Aiken by now. No congressman can ever be allowed to defy the party's presidential nominee. No fucking way. The bastard's body would have been drawn and quartered and his head mounted on a pike set atop the St. Louis arch and left to rot until after election day.

Once again, Romney's supposed strength -- his CEO expertise -- has been undermined.  Back during the good old days at Bain, if the manager of a midwest satellite office embarrassed the hell out of the company, Romney would have issued a pink slip and some fixer from the home office would have flown out to take temporary control until the mess was cleaned up.  Two security guards, neither smaller than a beer truck, would make sure that Aiken cleaned out his desk and left quickly.  Aiken's photo and license plate numbers would be posted in the guard shack at the company entrance along with instruction to never ever let him back in.  More importantly, for Romney, it would have been 15 minutes and done.  A couple of phone calls.  If Aiken's transgressions went beyond embarrassing to criminal, then Mittens might have needed to issue a public statement and the 15 minutes could have stretched to half an hour.  But, that's all.  Romney's involvement, from start to finish, would have been finished and forgotten before lunch. 

The real Todd Aiken is not following the business model.  This is down and dirty politics, and Romney doesn't know what to do.  The upper class twit who expects to become the most powerful human being on the planet, can't even get rid of a dimwitted knuckle-dragging member of his own party.