"Who chuckles when they’re trying to project compassion?”

[kpete]

“Sometimes it helps to laugh. But Romney’s smirk is disturbing. It betrays a preternatural sense of entitlement and self-satisfaction that comes out, often inappropriately, in all sorts of ways, from his odd remark that “I like to be able to fire people that provide services to me” to insulting the cookies supporters served him or the rain gear fans wore to a NASCAR event. It seems related to the calm self-importance with which he belittled British planning for the Olympics, insulting our closest ally. The smirk is a cousin to another odd Romney tic – his tendency to chuckle at the wrong time, like when he was trying to deny cutting the hair of a gay high school classmate. Who chuckles when they’re trying to project compassion?”

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/14/romneys_haunting_smirk/

[riderinthestorm]

1. Another rich entitled frat boy - GW Bush for one.... nt

[xxqqqzme]

11. Yep, the same giggle

and smirk. After 8 years of it, it is hard to miss.

[left coaster]

2. Someone who really has no idea what compassion or empathy even feels like..

I call it the Ted Bundy Effect.. aka the GOP Effect.

[barbtries]

3. the same guy who laughs

while he's tormenting schoolmates, children, and dogs.

[valerief]

9. Or fake-arresting (and god knows what else) motorists. nt

[Lizzie Poppet]

4. "Correct. Select again." "I'll take 'Sociopaths' for $400, Alex."

[struggle4progress]

5. There's a moral gulf visible in that photo

[PearliePoo2]

7. The same guy who chuckled when asked about Seamus his dog.

RMoney had that creepy "heh..heh" chuckle when Chris Wallace asked him about putting the dog on the car's roof.
Seriously, there's something really wrong with this guy. He's fucked up in the head.

[chemenger]

8. Ask not toward whom the stiff smirks

He smirks at you.

[RagAss]

10. Schizophrenics, Sociopaths and Satan.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. Or calling it a joke when he walks a blind person into a closed door

This guy is not emotionally functional and the prospect of having him in control of our nuclear arsenal scares me a lot more than Barry Goldwater did in 1964.

[brightertomorrow]

13. someone who has no compassion

someone who doesn't comprehend what empathy is.

[TxVietVet]

14. The same smirk on a different piece of shit.

We had eight years of misery with the crackhead bu$h and his fucking smirk.

[calimary]

15. Now isn't THAT just exactly what we need? Smirky 2.0?

I found Smirky the First to be utterly repulsive, so Smirky the Second doesn't even approach non-starter status.

[Uncle Joe]

16. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.