Mitch Is Neat

Growing up with three sisters I can imagine the conversation when my mother announced:
"Uncle Charles Krauthammer brought that nice Mitch Daniels boy by today."
"Mother he didn't! Why?"
" Uncle Charles speaks very highly of Mitch, says he's president of the Latin Club and was picked to be a future Rotarian."
" Porto potare! Mother, the guy is a square.
"Well your aunt Peggy Noonan thinks he's cute. She says he's forty times smarter than that Sarah friend of yours. Says she's too impulsive."
"And of course aunt Peggy doesn't like Michele either."
"Of course not."
"Why?"
"Honey your uncle Charles and aunt Peggy mean well. They just don't think that you are old enough to make good choices-yet."
"Then tell aunt Peggy to go out with Mitch and tell uncle Charles he really should go to a Tea Party rally. Just once!"
"Easy, easy, no one meant any harm. You're starting to sound like your Dad."
"Mother I know they mean well but would look at the people they think are neat."
"They go on and on about Chris Christi who says he doesn't want to go out with anyone, they sing their praises of Mitch Daniels like he was a second Elvis and next it will be Jon Huntsman."
"Jon Huntsman? really? He seems like a nice young man. What's wrong with him?'
"Nothing is wrong with him but nothing is right with him either. You never know whose side he's on."
"Well he does have a nice smile."
"So does Rick Santorum but I wouldn't go out with him either?"
"But why?"
"He looks positively anorexic!"
"Anorexic? I don't think I've ever heard that word. What's it mean?"
"Anorexia is an eating disorder but aunt Peggy probably thinks it's a virtue."
"Okay, Okay, let's drop the subject. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. But your uncle Charles had a riddle I think is cute."
"What's that, Mom?'
"Is Cain able?"
"Wow! Or as Mitch would say ora pro nobis."