The New Republic: Mitt the Jerk: a Woman’s View of the Debate

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By Amy Sullivan

Mitt the Jerk: a Woman’s View of the Debate
At the risk of going all Maureen Dowd here, I’d like to suggest that in the second presidential debate on Tuesday night, we met Mitt the Man. He’s always been there, surfacing briefly at the Republican National Convention to implausibly claim that he has always believed wife Ann’s job raising their sons “was a lot more important than mine”—as if Romney sincerely believed that for decades he pursued a less important career path. For the most part, however, Mitt the Man had been under wraps until he emerged in full-force at Hofstra University. Just who is he?

Mitt the Man gets his way by talking over you and not stopping until you give in so he can make his point. Which he may have forgotten by then, because getting his way was the point.

Mitt the Man can go from charming to testy in two seconds flat because while he has tolerated you as a female colleague, he will not allow you to disrespect him and his authoritah!

Mitt the Man is not self-aware enough to realize that he can be easily goaded and that you are pushing his buttons.

Mitt the Man feels sorry for you as a single parent and your sure-to-be-screwed-up kids.

Mitt the Man cannot help but disappoint you because his chivalry is all about saying the right thing as opposed to doing the right thing.

http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/108711/mitt-the-jerk

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. I amy be mistaken; but ...

didn't a DUer post a nearly identical, though somewhat shorter, OP?

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2. I don't know, thus explaining why I posted it

Let it sink then.

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3. I just saw a pro-Mitt ad on Melissa Harris Perry and in the ad he approves

the voice over at one point says:

"we need to take care of those who can't take care of themselves, like single mothers..."

He really doesn't "get" women... at all. Single mother's are not only taking care of themselves but their children as well. It's a condescending statement hoping to garner the votes of single mothers and women in general but it really just insults us.

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4. And yet even though he won't say if he supports the Lillie Leadbetter Act

in his case I would say that what he doesn't say speaks volumes.

The way he twisted his tongue into a pretzel avoiding answering whether he supported the Act or not just shows how insulting he is to women, by blaming single mothers for the crime in the US.