Of course, Gingrich's surge comes on the same weekend that Mitt Romney was supposed to hit people with a gangbusters announcement that would reward them for spending 48 hours walking around with iPhones in front of their faces and frantically hitting REFRESH on social media. Naturally there was no announcement. At all. What can it possibly mean?
For more, click on the smilin' Newt and the Manson-eyed mantis below to be taken to Vice:
Also, last Friday, I anticipated that Mitt's big announcement would not be very big or even noticeable. It's a shame that I was right, but it does increase the utility of all the unreleased "major announcements" from Team Romney that I took the liberty of revealing on Twitter to tide us over until the day Romney decides to stop blowing it.
Play us out, Mitt:
as a lapsed mormon, i should point out that only 10 of the tribes are in outerspace.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous: Oh, come on, that's clearly a Battlestar Galactica reference.
ReplyDeleteThe creator of the original Battlestar Galactica is a Mormon, like Romney (although less robotic), and there are a lot of corollaries between Mormonism and elements of the series:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_and_mythological_references_in_Battlestar_Galactica