This diary is in the spirit of Mitt Romney or Bertie Wooster?, which mistakenly (IMO) attempts to equate Wodehouse's hero with our current Republican nominee.
A far better match is found elsewhere in the various alternate universes of British comedy.
DKos member Clytemnestra and I were chatting on Facebook about our mutual enjoyment of the British SF comedy Red Dwarf, when it hit me:
Romney = Rimmer.
Any Red Dwarf fans out there will immediately recognize the truth of this equation.
She seized on the idea and generated a perfect image of Mitt as the hologrammatic crewmate, about whom his shipmate Kryten once said:
You are the most obnoxious, trumped-up, farty little smeghead it has ever been my misfortune to encounter!According to the Red Dwarf Wiki:
Rimmer's primary character traits include anal-retentiveness, over-adherence to protocol, cowardice, misogyny, and a severely inflated ego matched only by his deep-seated sense of self-loathing...
