I don't know what it is, but I'm hating Romney more and more

[GusFring]

It was never like this with Bush or McCain for me. Cheney, sure. But I was able to find something likeable about Bush and McCain. There is nothing likeable about Romney.

And it seems nobody is really attacking him. His opponents don't even bring up his job creation record. Nor does the media.

[sellitman]

1. Only Sanitorium has that effect for me.

Romney is just a wishy washy liar. Ricky is far worse IMHO.

[GusFring]

2. I don't take him serious since he can't win.

[uponit7771]

3. You and a lot of people, IIRC Obama AND Hilliarys numbers went up as the primiary dragged

...on

I don't think RMoney has the character to lead this nation...

[PADemD]

4. Bush likeable?

Yuk

[GusFring]

6. Bush was a simpleton used by extremist much smarter than him.

[grantcart]

5. I agree. I think it has to do with personal courage for your beliefs.

McCain did a number of courageous things in his life. He refused to leave the Hanoi Hilton out of order even though he was facing life threatening injuries. His willingness to adopt a young girl from Bengladesh that he had never seen. His willingness to try and form a bipartisan group on immigration reform.

Romney has never done a single courageous thing in his entire life.

He was for the draft and the war and didn't serve, using his Mormon 'missionary' trip as a way out. His 'missionary' trip didn't take him to a place of poverty or physical challenge, as many other Mormons do by going to third world countries.

Even his 'business' career lacks personal courage. He didn't drop out of school ala Gates, he didn't come up with an idea and put his name on it and run with it. He used leverage. That means that he would gather huge amounts of capital and then pick apart companies that were at a moment of weakness and leverage that investment by showing up with a mountain of cash to buy asset rich companies when they faced a credit/cash/capital crises. There were some entrepenurial moves like Staples but they were well established models, and again Romney never had the guts to actually take the helm.

The 'gutsiest' thing he did was to run for Governor, but to do that he either gave up all of his core convictions, or he is giving them up now, or he just never had any.

His dad actually was quite an engaging guy.

He just turns my stomach.

[Javaman]

7. simple. mitten's is smarmy.

and when someone is smarmy, not only do you get the initial creep, but over time, it turns into a burning hate.

Why? because, like rust, smarmy never sleeps.

[Sheepshank]

8. I'm guessing it's his smarmy, shit eating, oily mannerisms n/t

[bigtree]

9. I don't know what it is

. . . but I can't find a bit to like about any of them. They're just disgusting human beings.

[JHB]

10. Why would you bring up his job creation record?

His job destruction record seems like a bigger factor.

[GoCubsGo]

11. The whole party has that effect on me.

Top to bottom.

[Jamaal510]

12. Not only do I have disdain for the four GOPher candidates,

but I have even more disdain for their supporters. It makes me cringe how people can support candidates who are clearly racist, homophobic, anti-women, they lie about Obama's economic record, they demonize and rob the poor while wanting to pamper the rich, they want freedom for businesses but no one else, and they disrespect secularism.
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[SomethingFishy]

13. I think they are all lunatics.

We have reached this point gradually, the point where insanity, hate, fundamentalism, and racism are celebrated as qualifications for the most powerful elected position on the planet. Any one of the Republican candidates from Cain to Bachmann, from Romney to Gingrich to Santorum and Paul, they all would have been laughed off the face of the earth pre-Reagan. They would have been ostracized in their own party, their ideas sneered at for the cro-magnon level of logic. And that would be from the people who like them.

We as a nation are literally... devolving.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

14. I have a visceral hatred for this man. Why? Because he has the propensity to fool the average,

misinformed American. He's a charlatan and is more scary than a Rick Santorum. At least most Americans know where Santorum stands. Mitt can fool people with his fake-ness. And he lies effortlessly. R-Money represents everything that is wrong with American politics today. He is the quintessential politician who will lie at the drop of a hat if it will get him elected. He scares me because he's the poster child for the Koch Bros. and Citizens United. He represents the 1%, and if he wins this election, we will finally become a fascist, corporatist state!

Be mad at Obama. I understand that people are disappointed. But, I don't care what anyone says: Mitt Romney is the most dangerous politician we've ever faced.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. Bush was and always will be dogshit to me

From his insider trading to his coup d'etat in 2000 to the swiftboating of Kerry, he's in my dictionary under the definition of dogshit. Romney has a LONG way to go until he registers on my disgust meter like Bush. But he is disgusting, from his blatant lies to his slick and smarmy voice and personality.