Call from Romney campaign: Sandy is "distracting" the nation from the campaign, give us money

Here is the number: 703-278-2343

There is not a lot of detail on the number to be found on the fearless internets, for example whether it is a call from the actual Romney campaign or from Americans for Prosperity on behalf of the Romney campaign (a key distinction, considering the content of the recorded message, which I will discuss briefly below).

Anyway, I get these calls; somehow I've gotten on the telemarketer list for campaign solicitations for the Romney campaign (I also get emails from Herman Cain...weird, right? It's king of amusing and allows me to compare the Obama and Romney GOTV efforts -- note to Romney campaign: you are not doing as well as the Obama campaign, and the humans who answer the phone eventually are not always 100% behind the candidate they purportedly espouse).

So here is the actual wording of the recorded message as I received it:

"Hurrican Sandy has distracted the nation from the final days of the campaign..."

and then of course instructions to press 1 to contribute to the Romney campaign (they are trying to raise an additional 50 million dollars...why doesn't Romney just write a personal check, I wonder?). I almost always press one, just to waste their time (and sometimes tell them how the Affordable Care Act actually works), this time it didn't connect properly, so instead of telling the poor telemarketer on the line the following, I'm writing a DKos diary to convey the same message:

WHAT THE HELL!???!!!

Hurricane Sandy..."distracting"...from the campaign??!!!

Isn't a "distraction" generally the unimportant thing that takes attention from the actual important thing?

Crap. I was actually, literally, without words.

And then I heard Romney on the radio saying, and again, I quote:

“We come together in times like this and we want to make sure that they have a speedy and quick recovery from their financial and in many cases, personal loss,” said Romney

Romney, being Romney, of course gave "financial" losses primacy over "personal" loss.

What a poor excuse for a human being. What a poor excuse for a politician.

We are going to win this election, people. Romney is too deeply flawed to win.

I bet you a lot of money Jeb Bush is seriously irked at the moment. And I bet Huntsman spends a lot of time mumbling to himself in the mirror.