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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney's "Unethical Stench"/ "...he is a walking corporation masquerading as a person"
(The best summation of Romney I've seen yet..and to think it's from Andrew Sullivan)
8 Jun 2012 11:38 AM--Andrew Sullivan
Romney will run against a fictional Obama, and Fox will provide the cover, and unless Obama is able to change the frame of this debate, the relentless propaganda will be potent. Yes, the level of deception is so great it's breath-taking. But Romney, I'm increasingly inclined to believe, is a businessman all the way down. His ethics are about getting, as he put it, 50.1 percent of the vote in any state. He does not believe there are any ethical or principled reasons not to try and get to that 50.1 percent however he can. A businessman can compartmentalize core moral and political questions into marketing. The goal is 50.1 percent saturation.
So he marketed a bunch of policies when running in Massachusetts - blithely becoming pro-choice out of deep conviction and personal experience, implementing Obamacare on a state level as a centrist conservative, being "more pro-gay than Ted Kennedy" on discrimination. But now he is not running in Massachusetts, he will simply change the policies. He favors a constitutional amendment criminalizing all abortion, total repeal of Obamacare, and will not stand by even a gay national security spoeksman if it means offending the religious right. This is who he "is". If a line will work against Obama, he will use it, regardless of its truth. Because there is no truth in Romney's world. There is only advertizing.
There is something increasingly chilling about this shape-shifter, isn't there? He views himself as a product to be marketed to different audiences at different times. And the actual content of that product is completely malleable. It can change as swiftly as Mormon doctrine, when market share is at stake. To predict Romney, in other words, you simply have to merely examine the market he's selling to.
As I noted once before, he doesn't just believe that corporations are people; he is a walking corporation masquerading as a person.
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/06/romneys-unethical-stench.html
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)of the airwaves.
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)He lies without compunction.
He has no conscience.
He has no character.
He has no convictions.
He is a political contortionist of the worst kind.
He is a vast wasteland of unscrupulousness.
RockyMtnGuy
(83 posts)He has no moral core.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)No wonder corps are people if they are like Rmoney.
Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)He has no moral core. His father was imperfect, but the kind of Republican that no longer exists: Passionate about civil rights, and changed his mind about the Vietnam War and opposed it. His mother was a passionate supporter of the ERA. I'm from Michigan. I remember them. Mitt Romney has no love for this country or its people; he loves himself and maybe his religion, but nothing else.
bjobotts
(9,141 posts)Over at Driftglass.com is a picture of Romney as a robot and below it are the three laws (like in "I, Robot" . It's Mitbiotics...
1. "A Romney may not injure a corporation or, through inaction, allow a corporation to come to harm.
2. A Romney must obey orders given it by corporations except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A Romney must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law."
Written by Driftglass at driftglass.com. Check it out cause site has really exact yet funny republican/media history post about David Frum and others.
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)From P. M. Carpenter
~snip~
It's only June, and Mitt Romney has already exhausted all the hideous possibilities of a Dorian Gray mentality that would make even Oscar Wilde blush. Moral. That's this pathetic, vile little pol's new favorite word. Moral. Here's a man who leads a party that endorses torture as well as unprovoked war, and coddles the rich while showing indifference to the poor. Moral.
Combine Gray with Elmer Gantry and you'd still come up short of the "moral" abomination that calls itself Mitt Romney.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)For modern Republicans, it's immoral to refrain from exploiting others.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Describes Romney so good....the Campaign Ads for us Dems just write themselves!
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Said it before and I'll say it again, he has no core beliefs - just goals. Easy to abandon or change that which you never had to begin with.
rox63
(9,464 posts)He has a scary, dark void at his core, with nothing but sheer ambition and greed swirling around inside.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Chef Eric
(1,024 posts)But does Sullivan give Nader credit? No.
Perhaps Sullivan simply dislikes Nader too much to mention his name. Fine, but if that's the case, then maybe he shouldn't be plagiarizing his words.
libinnyandia
(1,374 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)and who HE is. It's Election 2012 and nothing to do with Nader or Bushies.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,023 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)AJTheMan
(288 posts)AND the wealthy get to beat up on the poor and downtrodden while making huge profits. Sounds like Mitt's dreamland.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)a complete lack of a soul.