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Romney's 'Free Stuff' Speech Is a New Low
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/romneys-free-stuff-speech-is-a-new-low-20120713#ixzz20bIuZ6Gr
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Romney cant even be mean with any honesty. Even when hes pandering to viciousness, ignorance and racism, it comes across like a scaly calculation. A guy who feels like he has to take a dump on the N.A.A.C.P. in Houston in order to connect with frustrated white yahoos everywhere else is a guy who has absolutely no social instincts at all. Someone like Jesse Helms at least had a genuine emotional connection with his crazy-mean-stupid audiences. But Mitt Romney has to think his way to the lowest common denominator, which is somehow so much worse.
Most presidents have something under the hood wit, warmth, approachability, something. Even the most liberal football fan could enjoy watching an NFL game with George Bush. And even a Klansman probably would have found some of LBJs jokes funny. The biggest office in the world requires someone who buzzes with enough personality to fill the job, and most of them have it.
But Romney doesnt buzz with anything. His vision of humanity is just a million tons of meat floating around in a sea of base calculations. Hes like a teenager who stays up all night thinking of a way to impress the prom queen, and what he comes up with is kicking a kid in a wheelchair. Instincts like those are probably what made him a great leveraged buyout specialist, but in a public figure? Man, is he a disaster. Its really incredible theater, watching the Republicans talk themselves into this guy.
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/romneys-free-stuff-speech-is-a-new-low-20120713
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)the rude pundit without too much rudeness. Rec'd!
undeterred
(34,658 posts)zing!
trumad
(41,692 posts)The guy is a robot creep.
liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)Love some Taibbi!!
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Read it, folks.
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)I think not! Well, maybe if he was forced to play QB for the opposing side.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)with anyone who buys the beer.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)They were also more self-aware, even though room temperature.
nolabear
(41,987 posts)It's the most confounding thing, and the scariest. Romney is the guy you know with your gut you don't want to be caught alone in a room with because tehre's something wrong with him. Beyond the stupid policy, he's got this insectlike aspect, the kind of thing that screams that he's not quite like other humans. And that man, you do NOT want representing you in any form and under any circumstances.
randome
(34,845 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)The creepy factor is definitely there. He even scuttles when he walks! Just like an insect.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)When he got booed at the NAACP the other day. It wasn't a nervous reaction. You could tell right then and there it was what he intended and wanted.
I'm glad they booed him anyway because it was just that obvious.
Amonester
(11,541 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)He didn't make that speech to try to convince anyone to vote for him. The whole thing was staged for some other purpose.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)The GOP leadership and the gazillionaires in those quiet rooms must be wringing their hands and pulling their hair out at the prospect of selling Romney, the turkey, to voters. Romney is such a creepy person and horrible candidate. The eternal flip-flop that drives him is his total opportunism, forever ready to snitch on his best friend, sell you down the river, break any contract, and then draw up his body in outrage that anyone would even suggest that his conduct is less than stellar. What it tells me is that the GOP brand is completely bankrupt. Romney belongs in the history books along with the Krupps and other German industrialists who sold out to Hitler.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)jerseyjack
(1,361 posts)The prom queen bit sprayed coffee.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and that he didn't pull ther trigger......
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Rmoney is a failed experiment by the "scientists" on Kolob. They shot for a Data and came up with this pathetic audio-animatronic drone.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)He reminds me of a caricature of that very identity.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)"The twin appearances revealed the candidate to be not merely unlikable, and not merely a fatuous, unoriginal hack of a politician, but also a genuinely repugnant human being, a grasping corporate hypocrite with so little feel for how to get along with people that he has to dream up elaborate schemes just to try to pander to the mob."
Amen.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)KaryninMiami
(3,073 posts)Just another reminder of the terrifying prospect of this man actually becoming president. There really is something creepy about him.
mountain grammy
(26,624 posts)He's the jounalist of the century.