Welease Womney

In Monty Python's Life of Brian there's a scene where the rabble is mocking Pilate's speech impediment by asking him to release people who have the letter R in their name.

Pilate: Whom would you have me welease?
Man: Welease Woger!
Crowd: Yeah! WELEASE WOGER! WELEASE WOGER! Hahahahaha.
Pilate: Vewwy well. I shall welease woger!
Crowd: Yay. Yay.
Cntrian: Sir, eh. We don't have a Woger, sir.
Pilate: What?
Cntrian: Eh, we don't have anyone of that name, sir.
Pilate: Ah. We have no Woger.
Crowd: Aaaaaah.
Man: Well what about Wodewic then.
Crowd: Yeah. WELEASE WODEWIC! WELEASE WODEWIC!
Pilate: Centurain. Why do they titter so?
Cntrian: Just some, uh, jewish joke, sir.
Pilate: Are they... swagging me?
Cntrian: Oh, no, sir!
Pilate: Vewwy well. I shall welease Wodewic!
Crowd: Waaahahahaha.
Cntrian: Sir, we don't have a Roderic either.
Pilate: No Woger, no Wodewic.
Cntrian: Sorry, sir.
Pilate: Who is the Wog...
Who is the Wodewic to whom you wefer?
Man1: He's a wobber.
Crowd: Ahhhhahahah.
Man2: ... and a wapist.
Crowd: Ahahahhahah!
Woman: ... and a pickpocket!
Crowd: Aaah no. ssssssh.
Pilate: He sounds a notowious cwiminal.
Cntrian: We haven't got him, sir.
Pilate: Do we have anyone in our pwisons at all?

Eventually Judith runs up and demands that Pilate release Brian. Everybody joins in on the joke, believing Brian is another joke name with an 'R' in it. It turns out there is a Brian in prison and he is scheduled to be released.

I think of this scene when I see the faux (presumably) enthusiasm among the left for a Romney campaign. Atrio, Kos, and Josh Marshall are all faux-enthusiastic supporters of a Romney campaign. They remind me of the rabble in the Life of Brian scene. Evidently a Romney campaign strikes them as utterly hilarious.

I, on the other hand, like the hyper-serious Judith, am not sure what the joke is. Maybe, like Judith, I showed up too late. But I feel pretty confident Mitt Romney is going to be the next president of the United States, and the thought of it doesn't make me chuckle.