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You have to assume that Team Romney spent a lot of time prepping Mitt for his speech to the NAACP today, and certainly warned him that certain lines would not go over well. So I’m figuring the cheesy grin he sported while the crowd was lustily booing him for his pledge to get rid of the Affordable Care Act was well-rehearsed:
When I think of watching this strange dude serve as president for four long years, I get a headache.
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.
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