5 Brothers

no....it's not a new brand of pasta sauce. it's the name mitt romney's offspring have given themselves on the campaign trail and for the blogs they keep for romney's own website.

now, i'll be the first to admit it... the romney boys are hot. especially matt & josh. but just because i want to schtup four out of the five of them, don't mean i'm gonna vote for mitt. but the five brothers are desperately trying to help papa get nominated, four of them actively campaigning for romney.

but is it possible the romney spawn could also end up hurting him....?

at a recent event in iowa, ole fightin' mitt was asked about his five sons' lack of military service. mitt, in all his "i'm just like ronald reagan...no, really" glory answered: "one of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected because they think i'd be a great president."

ummmm....okay.

romney specifically focused in on his boy josh (one of the four, granted) and his trip through 99 iowa counties this summer in the RV dubbed the "mitt mobile." but what did rachel griffiths (the questioner, not the actress) have to say about romney's answer?

"he told me the way his son shows support for our military and our nation is to buy a winnebago and ride across iowa and help him get elected."

i love this woman... griffiths is an anti-war activist who has a sister who served in iraq. her question and response has to be another embarrassment to the romney camp who seems to be making a string of youtube-captured flubs.

from his argument with a radio-show host about an unwanted, mormon-focused radio interview to the new hampshire waitress who publicly shot him down... romney's frustration and short-temper have been highlighted on many an evening news show.

and now, his pathetic attempt at addressing his sons' unwillingness to join in a war he so stridently believes in is just another embarrassing moment for political fodder. on it's own - i doubt this doozy of a flub (not to mention an utterly moronic argument) will make much of a difference, but once you start adding it to the list of other idiotic mitt moments, how soon before a cell phone camera captures mitt's own macaca moment?

not soon enough, i say.... but i'll keep you posted.

e.