GENIUS

Romney has startling geopolitical insight, identifies Syria as “Iran’s route to the sea”, even though they don’t share a border and Iran has a long coastline of its own.

Romney — always thinking outside the box.

CAVALRY

Romney proposes reinstatement of horse-mounted cavalry units in case of surprise Sioux uprising. Says, “My first duty as President will be to make the American frontier safe for settlement.”

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SLEAZEBALL

Dinesh D’Souza — identify a dogmatic right-wing apologist for traditional family values and you will identify a sleazeball adulterer. It never fails.

But let’s give the guy a break — he probably got the first expert blow-job of his life from his current squeeze.  Some things transcend ideology.

THE ROSE OF THE WORLD

William Butler Yeats’s take on the Eternal Feminine:

Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
For those red lips, with all their mournful pride,
Mournful that no new wonder may betide,
Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam,
And Usna’s children died.

We and the labouring world are passing by:
Amid men’s souls, that waver and give place
Like the pale waters in their wintry race,
Under the passing stars, foam of the sky,
Lives on this lonely face.

Bow down, archangels, in your dim abode:
Before you were, or any hearts to beat,
Weary and kind one lingered by His seat;
He made the world to be a grassy road
Before her wandering feet.