Romney - angry under pressure

[bushisanidiot]

I sure would like to see President Obama confront Romney on live television so everyone can see how easily Romney the liar cracks under pressure.

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[msongs]

1. angry mitt - there's an ad campaign worth running nt

[lillypaddle]

2. Excellent idea!

[formercia]

27. Mitt Romney: The Uppity White Man we all love to Hate.

Mitt likes to wear his Assh0le on his sleeve.

[Not Sure]

54. Awesome! I like that (nt)

[K Gardner]

39. Exactly what I was thinking.. this needs to be a TV ad. n/t

[Justice]

3. Wow. He is really obnoxious.

Edited to add:

Watching this makes me really appreciate how difficult it was to have a debate with this guy under the "free for all" format of last week.

He would have talked over the President and complained over and over.

I have to believe Obama and his people knew this and did not want to be drawn into a "Rick Perry" style exchange with Romney.

The next debates will be much better for Obama.

[99th_Monkey]

20. Maybe it was a "free fall" format, is what they meant? ~nt

[patrice]

4. K&R

[Cha]

5. k&r

[Aldo Leopold]

6. Agreed. Would love to see this simmering rage freak pushed to the edge

by our cool, composed Prez.

[sheckley]

10. i'm all for Obama

but he wasn't his cool, composed self last week.

[Aldo Leopold]

21. Well called.

And cheers. It's 5:00 here on the east coast.

[Wednesdays]

34. Um, what?

Show me a clip where Obama lost his cool last Wednesday, or where he "wasn't composed."

Seriously.

[NJCher]

51. huh?

Please, do tell where he wasn't is cool, composed self. I would like to check it out on my debate tape.

[marezdotes]

7. This is exactly his behavior at the debate.

Shut up until I say you may speak.

[renate]

43. yes, it was

And OH THAT LOOK ON HIS SMUG NASTY FACE. He's so ICKY and I have friends who are going to VOTE for him. I can't stand it.

[defacto7]

50. but don't forget

that tilting of the head to the left whenever someone says something heart warming. It's that patronizing, "oh I'm so compassionate" tilt he learned from his coaches.

I'll coin it ... the Romney Tilt !

[Voice for Peace]

84. yes.. the tilt..

[Voice for Peace]

8. "listen to my words. listen to my words."

that was REALLY REALLY Creepy.

shiver shudder

[bushisanidiot]

40. Mitt is a creepy, angry person

.

[CthulhusEvilCousin]

76. That was

from an encounter he had with a reporter. Mitt was doing a press conference where he said he was the only candidate whose campaign was not being run by lobbyists. So the reporter speaks up, "But, that's not true! Your chief adviser is a lobbyist!" -- Romney said something about, "well, he's not RUNNING my campaign. So and so is." The reporter pushed him on it, but Mitt, in perfect Mormon fashion, dodges completely based on the dishonest nuance of his words. The reporter replied, "By your definition, no one's campaign is being run by lobbyists!"

After the interview, but the cameras were still running, Mitt does the most bizarre thing. He walks off, but then he turns around and confronts the reporter with the clip you just saw. He then just walks away, and Mitt's handler comes in and tells the reporter to be more professional.

This actually also happened to Brett Bair over on Fox News, when Brett asked Romney about his comments in the past promoting RomneyCare on a national level. Mitt lied about it straight out, and Brett challenged him. After the interview, Brett claimed that as they were walking off, Mitt was chastising him about the interview. At one point he walked into his dressing room, WALKED BACK OUT, and continued the tirade.

This is the behavior of an extreme narcissist if you ask me. It is NOT normal behavior. It suggests something compulsive in the man. Something that is so... twisted, that it gets offended that you do not believe his lies.

I'm afraid, though, because there isn't really much you can do about something like that. This is a guy who will talk over you and repeat a lie over and over and over again. In fact, he did that during the debate, which is why I never understood why they claimed he won. Obama made many points which went unchallenged by Mitt, except by Mitt repeating himself. Mitt, however, can be much worse.

[sheckley]

9. oh snap

he went hands on with that goofball from texas. can you imagine him doing the same to Obama???

[ywcachieve]

15. None of the other Repub primary candidates can stand him.

He bullied and acted like a fool with them, also.

[ywcachieve]

11. Romney is SO obnoxious, SO despicable!

In fact he is the most despicable, undesirable candidate I have ever seen, or heard of . He has no class, no temperament, and is a bully.

I can't stand him!

[sheckley]

14. even the GOP didn't like him in 2008

or ealier this year. he's toast. i'm not even worried about it.

[ywcachieve]

18. Exactly.

The other GOP candidates don't like him either. They chatted with each other off camera, but Romney was not a part of the group.

[bushisanidiot]

30. A hell of a lot of republicans can't stand him

I think republicans are saying they are for him in the polls, but they won't come out to pull the lever for him in November like they did for McCain, who they also hated.

[catbyte]

12. I lasted 2.5 seconds. That smarmy, creepy rictus grin of his creeps me out big time

[WillyT]

13. K & R !!!

[flamingdem]

16. Careful a little here - I think that anger has served him in some sectors

Sadly that convinces the macho types that he's mas macho than Obama and it probably is one reason he did well in dog eat dog and sniff dog business

[ywcachieve]

19. Women voters, who are the majority of the electorate,

are turned off by that behavior.

[flamingdem]

23. Agree, but making him look like a liar/ incompetent might be better this round

[2pooped2pop]

59. then just a montage of sorts of all of his lurch looks and

lip smacking, ghoul staring, evil clown grinning, along with his anger faces and snippets of stupidity like the opening of the windows on planes, where did this water come from?

And oh yeah, where are your taxes Mitt? This just goes to show he thinks he is better than the rest of us. He's an elitist. He doesn't want to show how he cheated on his returns. He don't have to. He's Mitt fuckin Romney.

Rules? I don't need no stinking rules, Mitt.

That would make a good video for me.

oh, and maybe something with his lick lipping with flashes of a snake tongue flicking in and out each time Mitt's tongue comes out.

[TexasLeftist]

17. Ok seriously??

This guy is a total mess!! I don't want him to be President!

[awake]

22. Mitt the angry Mormon

Great post

[aletier_v]

77. You'd be angry too, if you wore that underwear during sex

[zentrum]

24. Republican voters and

...independents who are closet republicans like this kind of thing.

They respond positively to dominant males. They like, trust, admire and follow authoritarian personalities. This as an AD would help as much as it would hurt R.

[klook]

38. And all of those people are already voting R (n/t)

[railsback]

25. Republican voters like dicks

Interpret that any way you like.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. The old slogan (on bathroom walls) was "Dick Nixon before Nixon dicks you". Then we got Dick Cheney.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. The one I remember is

Why change dicks in the middle of a screw?
Vote for Nixon in '72.

[klook]

36. I remember "Nixon pull out,

like your father should have."

[Vinca]

26. What a total dick that guy is.

[lexw]

28. I think he definitely has an entitlement attitude.

I recall before the McCain/Obama debates many were saying McCain would fly off the handle, but I don't believe he ever did. You can bet Romney has been trained what to do if Obama gets under his skin (yuck!). I'll bet this next round the GOP is going to set out to make Obama get angry, as well. I hope Obama has had time to work on himself this round.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. Yes, he feels he is more equal than his nominal equals

Shown by when he is in the debate with Rick Perry, he say "we both get to speak, so now I speak first" (paraphrased).

Nice catch, OP.

[HughBeaumont]

32. The U.S.A.'s not a boardroom and we're NOT his fucking suboordinates.

This is how he seems to treat everyone he encounters.

[Not Sure]

53. Hear, hear! (nt)

[thelarge]

33. Dead Giveaway

Watch Mitt's nose! It turns red, along with a triangle surrounding his "trunk" whenever he gets challenged! In a town hall format, Mittens will look like a woodpecker!

[renate]

44. too funny!

Now I can't wait for the next debate!

[awoke_in_2003]

47. More like a wood dick...

welcome to DU

[toby jo]

37. Obama's gotta just be honest

When the guy dicks off, call im on it. Confront it like ' well, if we have to play at this level, I'll drop it down a notch. Then you get your turn to see if you can man up. ' Make the behavior even more tangible. Mitt'l hate it.

[dmr]

41. That's exactly what Mitt wants him to do.

Obama is too smart and a classy guy to fall into that trap.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

42. There's a lot of angry white males that will vote for one of their own.

[NCLefty]

45. The 4 scariest things in there

"Listen to my words."

[Maraya1969]

46. Send this to the President!

If the President can only get the Mister to lose his cool it would be happy days again. I've seen him lose his cool before and it doesn't take much. I think it the President called him a liar a couple of times that would do it. Or pushed him on a point that he is lying about.

[hrmjustin]

48. +1

[bushisanidiot]

63. I'm sure they already know about Mitt's thin skin and his anger issues

they will be on full display next week. Obama is going to knock his ass to the ground
as soon as romney throws a wild, flailing throw, talking about something he knows
NOTHING about.

[Patiod]

49. But it's okay to be an Angry White Guy

Not okay to be an Angry Black Guy.

[Kurovski]

52. Back at the Sorbonne we would refer to a person of such temperament as

La DICK.

[Not Sure]

55. Cool video, but I could do without the music (nt)

[TexasBushwhacker]

56. Bring on the townhall debate!

Think of the things people will ask him about - his taxes, his bank accounts in the Caymans and Switzerland, his investments, Bain, his father being on welfare as a child - the list goes on.

[TroyD]

57. Here's another example of Romney getting angry, with a reporter

[Cha]

58. Wow! I put off watching that because I am sick to freaking death

of that MF..but, I just saw it... Now they can add "What a Guy" to his fucking debate resume.

Certainly, the Obama Team has watched clips of the asshole debating in the primaries?

[Berlum]

60. OMG

Willard has a wicked bad case of Republicanism.
No wonder people don't respect him.

[bushisanidiot]

61. his likeability numbers have peeked and will be tumbling hard and fast after his next debate

performance.

he will be an awkward buffoon sitting on a stool and/or nervously pacing around the room, unsure
of which lie to tell next and wondering if any of the people there will call him out on his b.s.

[TwilightGardener]

62. LOL--poor Rick Perry, he was up against a guy who led a blind teacher

into a door for shits and giggles. Mitt's a fucking psycho.

[atufal]

64. Romney Ran A Sprint In A Marathon.

As I've been saying for a week Romney is going down in the next debate. Because now the groundwork is laid. Mitt Romney is clearly the greatest debater the world has ever seen and the expectations for Obama will be much lowered. Romney is an aggressor and has to stay aggressive. The president can now, ALSO be aggressive. The next debate is town hall style and Romney had BETTER NOT bring the same attitude that he brought to this debate. If so, and Romney mixes it up or ignores a citizen's question, expect the president to come to that citizen's defense. Romney has lied and staked out positions he will be required to defend. Also expect the president to stay far away from Romney lest Romney try to physically control him as he did Rick Perry--still the most frat-boy, dickish, blatantly aggressive move I have ever seen in a national debate.

[TwilightGardener]

65. Hi, and welcome to DU. I agree, Romney manhandling Perry

was really kind of shocking.

[Indpndnt]

66. Excellent summary

Welcome to DU, atufal.

[madrchsod]

70. +1......

[CrispyQ]

67. On the global stage, he will be worse than Bush.

Unbelievable.

[bushisanidiot]

68. Romney will never reach the global stage

he has an election yet to lose. and he WILL lose.

[madrchsod]

69. he did....by letting mittens be mittens

do not watch the debate listen to the debate. you`ll hear what mittens wife was afraid of.

[Brigid]

71. Mitty is waaaay too used to talking to "the help."

And it really shows.

[bushisanidiot]

86. +1

.

[bushisanidiot]

72. The President needs to hit Romney on defunding Sesame Street in the next debate

republicans are FURIOUS that Romney gave the Obama team a freebie
regarding big bird. they want democrats to SHUT UP and stop
talking about it.

WHICH IS WHY WE NEED TO KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT.

IT IS GETTING TO THEM.

[mrgrosky]

73. Want to see Mitt Mad? Challenge Him on His REAL Massachusetts Record!

Mitt's Record in Massachusetts is much worse than people realize. He failed Massachusetts citizens in jobs and the economy, in education, in women's issues, and in leadership style. Although I am a lifelong Massachusetts Democrat, I once made the mistake of voting for Mitt Romney (back "home" after saving the Olympics, and though I was hopeful, I almost immediately began to regret my vote--as did thousands of other Democrats who crossed party lines as well as independents and even some Republicans who realized how much he let our Commonwealth down. My video slideshow has received nearly 2000 views in just 5 days. The YouTube show is an indictment of Romney's term in office, and is an excellent counterpoint to all the boasting that he has done about all that he supposedly did for our state. The slideshow is set to music and features quite a number of lovely Massachusetts landscapes. If the President and his advisers were to watch this, they would get a good deal of info to use in the next debate. And yes, I now that bringing up these facts would frustrate--even anger--Mitt. The rest of you could use this info in YOUR next debate with friends.

[thevoiceofreason]

74. Welcome to DU!

Good post

[Indpndnt]

75. I find it very fitting.

That the very first person to greet the new poster is, literally, the voice of reason.

[MowTin]

78. Mitt looks strong. He doesn't let people push him around unlike Obama

On the flip side Obama let Mitt walk all over him and speak when it was clearly not his turn to speak. Mitt got the last word when it wasn't his turn to do so. Obama did nothing about it and looked weak.

Yes, Romney is the school bully but Obama has to fight back!

[Indpndnt]

80. Look at you! Most impressive! You didn't even say "democrat policies" like in the other thread.

You're learning.

Three posts, all about how weak Obama is and how he can't defend his "democrat policies." Brilliant. Keep 'em comin'!

[Paulie]

82. Person can't

cough cough cough cough

[Indpndnt]

83. Aaaaaw! There goes my fun for the evening.

Thanks for the heads-up! And the visual.

[uppityperson]

81. Edited, thanks MIRT.

[The Roux Comes First]

79. Unfortunately,

it does seem as though there is a substantial percentage of folks who have some combination of entitlement and martyrdom issues, with perhaps some personal cowardice and/or anger-management challenges thrown in (and perhaps the occasional restraining order), who just fawn over the spectacle of others picking fights with whoever they have designated as the Other. They might have been eager to join the crowd around school-yard fights. Who supports cock- and dog-fighting? Bear-baiting?

It's a gristly and despicable side of more than a few of our species. Sadly, it's not as if angry Mitt would be out there alone.

Just sayin'

[TroyD]

85. Romney loses cool with reporter that catches him in a lie