Say It Ain't So Already

Former Republican party leader* Michael Steele was on Hardball w/Chris Matthews a few minutes ago.  He and Matthews were talking about — duh — tomorrow’s primary vote.   Good ol’ Michael was downright giddy, treating us like idots and trying to appeal (I guess) to the Tea Party/Occupy/populist vote:  “It’s all grass-roots that’s driving this; that’s what’s exciting to me.”

Really?  Grass-roots?  You call millions of dollars “grass-roots?”

Figures made available to The Associated Press showed Romney was spending $2.8 million to air television commercials in the final week of the Florida campaign. In addition, a group supporting him, Restore Our Future, was spending $4 million more, for a combined total of $6.8 million.

By contrast, Gingrich was spending about $700,000, and Winning Our Future, a group backing him, an additional $1.5 million. That was about one-third the amount for the pro-Romney tandem.

Only nine more months to go!

*  It isn’t like me to refer to the former head of the Grand Old Party (i.e., the GOP) as the “former Republican party leader.” But given that 50% of Republicans have no idea who the GOP is, I’m thinking it’s a good idea to refer to Republicans not as the GOP, but as Republicans.  I mean, if I have to hold their little hands so they’ll know what their party’s up to, I’ll do it.