A SHORT HISTORY OF RIGHT WING DESTRUCTION

Netflix is going to release a movie called "Mitt" next month about the ultimately futile presidential campaign of Mitt Romney.

I have been fascinated for a long time by behind the scenes looks at politics.  The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White created a life-long interest in politics.  Even novels that are well done are fascinating.  You think of Allen Drury's Advise and Consent, for example.

You wish that all political coverage was about the real people behind the scenes, not the slick and contrived commercials that run incessantly every campaign season.  Most campaign ads are about attack, attack, and attack.  They also frequently distort the truth, or make issues out of non-issues.  The biggest and most successful non-issue campaign I remember was George H. W. Bush running against Michael Dukakis with ads about criminal Willie Horton.

I'm glad Mitt Romney didn't win.  I think things would be even worse for the majority of us had he won and put his policies in place.  But I would be interested in seeing Romney behind the scenes.

More to come