Romney’s remarks, elegantized

The Republican Presidential candidate, Mr. Thurston “Mitt” Howell-Romney, has conceded, under pressure, that his widely-circulated remarks dismissing the bulk of the electorate as teeming welchers and mooching scum, were “not elegantly expressed”.   They were, after all, addressed to a conclave of wealthy, highly tax-subsidized bankers and buyout artists and oilmen and real-estate developers and suchlike social parasites, in the notorious moocher state of Florida, and not intended for the highly educated (or, in Ryan’s or Santorum’s terms, overeducated) English majors with an ear for the elegant, most of whom are Democrats.

Accordingly, the candidate has been feverishly working on a more elegant version of his social philosophy, pouring out his innermost thoughts upon an Etch-a-Sketch ® balanced precariously on his bespoke-tailoring-clad knees, in the style known as “blank verse” which he remembers from English class back in prep school.

And once again, The World of Dr Justice ® scores a stunning media scoop.  One of our operatives who has inconspicuously infiltrated the campaign -- his cover being that he is a mere gofer and dogsbody, thus invisible to the candidate and his entourage -- was able to read the lines over the poet’s shoulder;  we print them here, as a WDJ exclusive.

Fie!  varlet -- lowly, base-born bloke.

Bring me quick my Cherry Coke ®

I’ll toss it back -- for thirst imposes --

then fling the can  in those prize roses.

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[Update 2 October 2012]  Among the moochers:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/almost-2400-millionaires-pocketed-unemployment-benefits-in-2009/2012/10/02/7029962c-0c59-11e2-97a7-45c05ef136b2_story.html?hpid=z3

The headline apparently understates the case.  A fairish number of Americans are “millionaires” (a term deflated by inflation) in the sense that their total family assets reach that amount.   But those on this dole apparently include a much more select bunch: “Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Almost 2,400 people who received unemployment insurance in 2009 lived in households with annual incomes of $1 million or more, according to the Congressional Research Service.”  That is quite a different matter.  And bad cess to the WaPo headline-writer who cannot read as far as the first line of the article.