Mitt Romney vs. dead potted plant, Mark Morford

[madokie]

It is not very easy to care about Mitt Romney.

It’s a bit of a phenomenon, actually. It has proven almost impossible for most Americans to muster interest in this numbly rich, exceedingly bland caricature of a candidate, a man who is almost completely devoid of deep ideas or astute observation, who stands for nothing and says nothing you can ever remember, whose last ten speeches can be rolled into a fist-sized ball of palliative mush, hurled against a wall and then observed to ooze slowly to the floor, ending in a moist, displeasing plop. Fun!

There have been articles. There have been alarming notes coming in from all over the Interwebs talking about Mitt Revulsion Syndrome (MRS); websites and blogs, newspapers and TV shows alike have found that feature pieces about the GOP’s favorite tepid Mormon get the fewest clicks, viewers race away in droves, no one cares. Turns out Americans will do anything to escape Mitt’s creepy glare, his heavily shellacked aura, his vacuous everything. In short, Mitt is traffic poison.

(Author’s Note: So dangerous is MRS that I was hesitant to put his name in the headline to this column. Are you reading it now? Then I am lucky. Or perhaps I changed the headline to “Porn Star iPhone 5 Naked Gosling!” to get you to click on it. Did I? Sorry).

The rest http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2012/08/14/mitt-romney-potted-plant/

[truedelphi]

1. Morford is so brilliantly scathing.

And Jon Stewart featured Mitt for his "moment of Zen."

I guess someone got Mittens to have his daughter-in-law and grandsons appear on stage with him, and then Mitt had to introduce them. He did so very awkwardly, stumbling over the expression "daughter-in-law" and not really sure how to explain who they were.

[Gregorian]

2. Revelation: Bad politicians are the result of repressive childhood upbringing.

And we CAN lump them all together. Bush, Hitler, Romney.

But this is just one of those internet posts where I hit and run, somewhat off topic. However, I am beginning to believe that the salvation of planet earth, and all who dwell here, is to be found in that simple and important observation.