QUOTE OF THE DAY
“But could it be more than entitlement and an odd personal style? I’ve found myself wondering over the course of the campaign whether Romney has some kind of personality disorder, so dissociated does he occasionally seem from the well-worn routines of normal human interaction. Maybe we should be asking to see his medical records and not just his tax returns. I don’t mean to be flippant about that or insensitive to any kind of problem he may struggle with. But his struggles are our struggles; he’s running to be our president. There is something very odd about Mitt Romney.”
Joan Walsh in a piece over at Salon titled, What’s Wrong with Mitt Romney?
I’ve been wondering exactly the same thing for a couple months now.
There’s just a fundamental wrongness about Mitt that can’t be entirely explained away by his privileged upbringing, his membership in a non-Christian cult, or his plutocratic, master of the universe lifestyle.
There’s something intrinsically WRONG about the guy, and it’s why more and more observers of him refer to him as Romneybot.
I mean let’s be real here — given Mitt’s performance as a so-called statesman in London this week, it should be clear to one and all that he’s not even qualified to represent the United States as a tourist.
July 28th, 2012 at 6:36 am
Another manifestation could certainly be his comments in London, obviously delivered in an “I am the great arbiter of all things Olympic” tone, and totally disastrous in the face of his claims to an understanding of the special bond between England and the US as opposed to that African descendant in the White House who doesn’t know about Anglo-Saxons.
July 28th, 2012 at 6:46 am
Will, I think you’re right about that. Tim Noah over at The New Republic posited the theory that Romney’s comments stemmed from the fact that he’s enormously personally invested in the idea that only he could save an Olympics from its natural inclination to self-destruct. And so, to see London be able to do it without someone like him at the helm is just too much for him to bear.
But again, that kind of response is the sort one would expect from a person with a serious and deeply profound personality disorder.
July 28th, 2012 at 8:03 am
He walks funny, too.
July 28th, 2012 at 8:15 am
I can hear my maternal Grandmother saying
“even a broken clock is right twice a day”.
Almost always applicable,
Almost.
concerning MittRomney-
“He’s as useless as an ashtray on a motor cycle”
My other Granny saved that bon mot for just the worse people.
-jokes aside,
that’s a good call on your part Scott,
B.P.D.
Borderline Personality Disorder
July 28th, 2012 at 8:45 am
Nerd in a box. Believe he is unelectable. This trip was supposed to be a cake walk. Just be silent and smile and you will get a million foreign policy points. You even got a send of to Israel with an interview in Sheldon Adelson’s free jewish newspaper touting you and your trip. If anyone can fuck up this badly when everything has been especially prepared and easily laid at their feet. I cant swear to this but I believe that Whitehall’s
take on this is -that – he more inept and stupid than Sarah Palin. Just for a laugh Scott, I do know Whitehall is not a person. lol.
July 28th, 2012 at 8:50 am
When you can hear what Willard is saying, he is a jackass at best and evil at worst. But have you ever seen him talking while the TV machine is muted? He gives off an odd combination of shiftiness, disingenuous and mild mental retardation.
July 28th, 2012 at 9:43 am
Reading this made me wonder if professionals have started to examine and publish anything about Romney. Sure enough, just recently there was this in Time opf all places
by Justin Frank “The Root of Mitt Romney’s Comfort with Lying” http://ideas.time.com/2012/06/13/the-root-of-mitt-romneys-comfort-with-lying/
Fascinating, depressing, and the tip of the iceberg (because there’s gotta be more…)
Justin Frank is the author of the thoroughly depressing, devastating, spot on and shit-your-pants frightening “Bush on the Couch,” forensically psychoanalyzing Bush in the style the CIA does, from a distance. It’s by definition without the participation or cooperation of the patient, but when someone has a public life, it can be extremely accurate. Unfortunately. He’s also done an “Obama on the Couch” and it looks, again unfortunately, spot on as well.
John Walsh gets another leg of the damaged disaster of an elephant, thanks.
I have come to the conclusion that candidates for president should be DRAFTED from those qualified but with the good sense *not to want the Goddamned job.* Those who want it and those who have recently gotten it are damaged as fuck. The perfect podium for the people-pleaser, the narcissist, and the apocalyptic cult member.
July 28th, 2012 at 10:34 am
Sometimes you could see Mr Bush freeze in fear like a rabbit. On some photos, Mr Romney looks like he is trying to find a thought, any thought inside his vacant soul. Never forget the crazy education Mormon kids go through in order to integrate all the bullshit of their “faith” and manifest polite contempt to all other religions.
I’m almost sure he will be elected. Americans who don’t read nor understand billinexile don’t like intelligent and (almost) honest politicians.
July 28th, 2012 at 10:38 am
As I may have said here before, I’ve met him twice, in 1994 and around 2004. The first time he was just odd. The second, he was unjustifiably rude and boorish. “I’m the Governor and I’ll make your life more complicated and make a joke at your expense in front of your colleagues,” was the attitude.
July 28th, 2012 at 11:18 am
Scott, I have been saying for awhile that Romnent is “off” because he is merely following his duty, not doing what he would love to do.
I can’t say if he would be happy being Czar or “prophet” of the church of mormonity — but I might say that being “destined to be the first mormon president, to fulfill the prophecy that God wants mormons to run America” is rather a heavy load.
Mutton is the 4th of 4 kids in the family (small for mormons of that day) and definitely shows the brattiness of a baby.
This all fits with D’s impression of him.
Watch out for oven jokes from Mitt in Poland.
I hope that someone in Israel asks Ann what her favorite dinner is, and she replies “ham”
July 28th, 2012 at 11:22 am
From the article linked by James R
And one doesn’t have to be a Mormon to lie — just look at John Edwards or former Nevada Senator John Ensign. But in the Mormon Church, there was a decision to accept authority as true — whether or not evidence supported it. Hence Joseph Smith, the founder of the faith in 1820, claimed he was illiterate and received the Book of Mormon directly from God. But he could read, and read very well.
This unwavering faith is central to Romney’s comfort in deflecting any examples that the press might bring up of his lying. Further, it allows him to repeat lies again and again — both personally and in political advertising — because to him they are not lies at all. I’m reminded of that old epigram from the 1960s: “My mind is made up; don’t confuse me with the facts.” That may be all good and well in many offices, but it’s not so good in the Oval Office.
July 28th, 2012 at 11:34 am
Mitt Romney is completely lacking in warmth, empathy, social skills and all of the other characteristics that make someone a being of any worth. The added fact that he will say anything to anyone and then say the exact opposite the next day, with a straight face, shows that he lacks conviction and is completely untrustworthy. He spent his whole life being pampered, catered to, and sheltered from the ‘common folk’ and the real world. Frankly, I find him smarmy. I always have the urge to shower after hearing him speak.
He is proof positive that money cannot buy everything.
July 28th, 2012 at 11:55 am
Mitt Romney is the consummate “Mormonchurian Candidate”.
Seriously, I find all this sad. I honestly don’t think Mitt Romney even wants to be president.
However, he has been propelled into this position by a deep seeded need to have his deceased father be proud of him, and to have the Mormon church love him.
As for bettering the country, I don’t see any evidence he has the slightest interest in that, or we’d be flooded with historical tax returns, his record in Massachusetts, and whack-a-doodle policy positions on how he is going to make America better. His “59 Points” completely fail in that regard.
July 29th, 2012 at 1:47 am
Could Mitt pick Sarah Palin as his running mate?
July 29th, 2012 at 3:52 pm
More from Justin Frank at Salon yesterday “Why Mitt screws up” http://www.salon.com/2012/07/28/why_mitt_screws_up/
July 29th, 2012 at 5:21 pm
Mormonchurian Candidate, that is brilliant.