Is Romney already a bigger jerk than Dubya was ? (Poll)

[KurtNYC]

Dubya enjoyed belittling his staff and those he met with. He gave them frat boy style names and called reporters "major league assholes" under his breath.

And now we see Romney who, for better or worse, can't do the fake cowboy thing or even the aging frat boy have a beer with me thing. Romney has been inside of his corporate raider bubble pretty exclusively it would seem so he needles the voters:
- at a NASCAR event he said to fans in plastic raincoats: "I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks.”
- he also had to tells us all that while he knows nothing about NASCAR he does "have some friends who are team owners"
- his own father started the tradition of releasing his tax forms but Mitt threw his OWN FATHER under the bus with the line "The idea that I am supposed to follow exactly what my dad did is not something I find terribly compelling.”
- Mitt took time to find fault with the spread at a campaign stop, complaining: "I'm not sure about these cookies. They don't look like you made them...No, no. They came from the local 7-eleven, bakery, or whatever."

And for his peers, Romney turns and wants to bet "ten thousand dollars" that he is right. To Rick Perry, Dec 2011:
“Rick, I’ll tell you what, 10,000 bucks, $10,000 bet,” Romney said, extending a hand.

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	Dubya is still king of the jerks
	5 (71%)
	Dubya's smugness gives him the top spot in GOP Jerk-dom
	1 (14%)
	Romney is already the new king of the jerks and will keep on jerking
	0 (0%)
	Romney's unartful public bullying of normal people tops Dubya's acting
	1 (14%)
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[joeybee12]

1. The jury's still out...

Should Rmoney lose in november, he'll fade from the spotlight, whereas we have 8 years of memories of the Squatter President to recall where he was grade a, four-alarm asshole.

[MADem]

2. Dubya is still king, but RMoney has a mean and shitty streak a mile wide that we're just starting to

see and appreciate. Add to that, he is a klutz who cannot "read" people.

It's like Don Rickles doing a bit in a nursing home full of elderly Carmalite nuns. RMoney seems to think that people appreciate "insult humor" that is directed AT them. The truth is, people do NOT like that shit. It's only funny when the other guy is getting humiliated, and it's never funny when you haven't paid to hear the Rickles or the Dice Clay ripping on people.

He is a jello-eating dork who is a meanass. Bad combo.

[BigDemVoter]

3. Don't get me wrong. . . .

I L-O-A-T-H-E Romney, but I have never despised anybody as fiercely as I did that mother-f****r GWB. Just looking at his smirking mug makes my blood pressure rise, and I just want to smack it off his lips. . . .

Nonetheless, Romney is a fricking prig--I cannot stand him; I mean I REALLY hate him. But as I said, GWB still wins in my hate book!

[liberal N proud]

4. Take Regan and add bu$h and you get Romney

[rustydog]

5. Romney's smugness screams to the world he does not care

Like the BP executive who came on tv to "convince" Americans they "care about the SMALL people."

Romney wantsus to think he is one of us when he probably has to take pepto bismol to keep from vomiting when he has to mingle with the "average" American voter.

Shit, he wouldn't set foot in a Sears, JC Penny's, if it would save his life. He has car elevaors!
His wife's horse costs more than my 3 bedroom house...

Romney looks on us with distain. We are the "help" that is all we are to him. We are a necessary nuisance he has to endure to win the White House.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. That's a tough call. But I'm inclined to believe

that Romney is even more dickish than W. W was/is a clueless idiot whose dickishness is pretty much what you'd expect from a drunken frat boy. If he were 40 years younger he'd cover his face with Man Tan, wear a polo shirt with a popped collar, give you an insulting nickname and vomit on your shoes. He's a jerk and a dick because he doesn't know any better.

Mittens is even more clueless than W, on account of having had a ridiculous amount of money all his life. W came from a well-off family and developed that rich-asshole attitude of entitlement but Mittens is way richer. W could do the "nice guy you'd want to have a beer" with routine; Mittens can't even fake it, and when he tries he looks like the world's biggest d-bag.

Both of them are assholes but I am coming to believe that Mittens is actually worse because he's dead sober when he does it.

[KurtNYC]

13. Yes. I think the clip of Dubya doing his joke "the haves and the have MORES"

behind closed doors and whispering 'major league asshole' to Cheney shows he was more in-touch with the political landscape than Romney is. Dubya at least had the sense to try and pick the audience for his elitism jokes. It really makes me think that Romney is surrounded by ass-kisers who won't call him or coach him on his dick-ishness (perhaps because he likes "to fire people&quot .

[magical thyme]

21. agreed. I think Mittens is far, far worse

It took 8 years for the frat boy to rack up his score, and he could read people enough to pick his audience. Other than his Katrina flyover and botched PR gimmicks, it was only through unexpected cameras and leaks that his offenses made it into the open.

Mittens and Mrs. Mittens can't let a week go by without trying to charm people and ending up insulting them. They already rival W's total insult score. What's Mitten's excuse? Drunk on privilege?

[uponit7771]

7. HE said that about peoples rain coats!?!?!?

What an asshole!!

[coalition_unwilling]

8. I am undecided at this point, preferring to believe that

redemption (of Romney or of any human being) just might be possible. That said, I'd have to say right now Romney leads the race by a cat's whisker.

[onehandle]

9. Smirk vs. Smug. A tough call, but I have to give it to Smug.

'I'm unemployed too,' says it all.

[HappyMe]

10. The shrub is still the king of jerks.

[truebrit71]

11. He hasn't started any wars against a country that didn't attack us yet...

...so Lt AWOL is ahead by a (coke) nose...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. But he's got Iran in his crosshairs.

If that butthole gets elected, he'll do his best to get us into Iran. And that would be even uglier than Iraq.

[truebrit71]

15. True enough, but we aren't there....yet....

...so Dumbya is still in the lead...

[yellowcanine]

12. There are different categories of jerks.

George was an aggressive jerk.

Mitt is more the passive aggressive kind of jerk.

So it is hard to make a firm comparison of jerkiness. And they are probably equal in the douche category.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. Romney hasn't stolen an election, killed thousands in a war to satisfy his ego, trampled the

Constitution, or embarrassed a nation with every public appearance. Dubya by far leads Romney in the jerk category and I sure hope Mitt never gets the chance to try to top the chimp.

[uponit7771]

27. +1

[Rex]

17. It looks like Dubya might retain his title of King of All Jerks.

Very close race.

[Hugabear]

18. Romney is just a 100% corporatist. Bush was a failed corporatist AND a jerk

Romney just does what corporatists do.

Bush wasn't a corporatist, but wanted to think he was. Bush was a failure at everything he tried before stealing the election.

[rrneck]

19. Dubya had the power to enforce his jerkiness

so he's still the king. If Reamney gets in there he could eclipse the current record.

[cthulu2016]

20. I will not rewrite history for political expediency

Bush was the tops in everything bad and it would take some doin' to depose him.

[Ganja Ninja]

22. It's a tough call.

Romney is smarter and more preppy than the faux cowboy. Their equally dis-likeable for both the same and different reasons. However the damage Bush did was clumsy and stupid. Romney's damage was much more artful and technical. I see him as even more dangerous than Bush because he's more manipulative and has to keep proving himself to the radicals that despise him.

[Initech]

23. Jerk? Hard to say yet. Clueless? Ding ding ding ding!!!!

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Not Even Close

Not even his sense of entitlement is as severe. He actually was a SUCCESS in business, and he was a successful governor who actually accomplished something.

No, Silverspoon's very essence makes him the ultimate in "jerkiness".
GAC

[hifiguy]

25. Mittens ain't there yet.

But he is closing fast. Chimpoleon holds the title as of today.

[Octafish]

26. And Romney's killed how many Iraqis?

For Moon's sake, let the crony capitalist dumb bastard warmonger wannabe take the oath of office first.

[deacon]

28. I find them equal both in domestic and policy ideas and the way they present those ideas. n/t

[Lucky Luciano]

29. Such a ridiculous comparison. W is way worse.

Bush lied us into a war - what can be more assholish than that?! Romney may have made a few insensitive gaffes, but anyone can make an insensitive gaffe without being comparable to a war criminal.

I am with Jimmy Carter. If Romney actually won, it would not portend the kind of disaster that anybody else on the republican clown car would have done to our country (except for Huntsman). Romney is actually somewhat moderate - he was elected Massachusetts governor after all. No way to compare him to bush.

That said, I prefer Obama by a mile over Romney of course.

[Jamaal510]

30. It's hard to decide.

* had over 3K troops killed and infringed on our privacy with wiretapping, while Mitt Robme is a ruthless liar who outspends his opponents in order to win elections, and they both want austerity to continue.