Professor Harold Hill

One of my favorite musicals is Meredith Wilson's "Music Man". Watching Robert Preston play Professor Harold Hill, certainly no professor at all, is a joy. Hill goes around the country trying to sell band uniforms and equipment to a willing and naive public that believes a marching band will make their kids stay out of pool halls and become the best musicians the world has ever seen. We know that Hill is a liar, a cheat, a salesman for sure, duping his unwitting customers into buying his shtick. Does the Hill character remind you of anyone? It should. Mitt Romney. Here is a man not selling band equipment but selling shtick nevertheless. He has crafted a narrative that makes Harlold Hill's lies seem like little fibs. Romney is trying to convince us he is one of us. He claims feeling the fear of getting a pink slip. Romney was born to privilege and has never known want so none of us should buy into that Mr. Main Street crap. Romney has not been a job creator at all. His record as governor was poor and his job at Bain was to consolidate and streamline companies costing jobs not creating them. I have no quarrel with his actions, only with his lying about it. Romney is saying he isn't a politician but an outsider. Well, last time I looked, being Governor of a state is a political job. Running for Senate and losing is an example of desiring politics. Running for President certainly isn't playing squash, so as they say in the South, "that dog won't hunt". Mitt Romney wants to be President and he is doing and saying anything to get the job. His own competition within his own party doesn't believe him and neither should we. The one hope I have is that unlike the Professor, Romney doesn't get the girl. Let us pray. Where are you Americans for reason and truth?