Never mind that Buddy Roemer has tried on as many political parties as Newt Gingrich has wives. What really counts in a presidential
candidate isn’t party affiliation, but rather what he or she stands for. Because if you don’t stand
for something, you’ll fall for anything.
Or...maybe not. If Gov. Roemer’s current Americans Elect
dating game demonstrates anything at all, it is that one can, in fact, stand
for something and still fall for
anything.
In his own words (or, at least, his campaign web site’s)
Roemer is “committed to fighting the corrupting influences in Wall Street and
Washington,” stands firm against “billionaires buying an election,” stands up
against the “special interests” and “the corrupting influence of money in
politics.”
So what do you do if you’re a hard-scrabble
corruption-fighting reformer whom the other less ethical candidates and
their billionaire backers have (at least in your view) systematically squeezed
out of the debate, and out of the running? Why, you find yourself the very last
billionaire in America who doesn’t yet have a date for the prom, and you jump
into bed with him. You declare your candidacy with Peter Ackerman’s pet ‘party’,
Americans Elect Corporation.
