Comments on: QUOTE OF THE DAY

By: brandon

brandon — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:21:07 +0000

Mormonchurian Candidate, that is brilliant.

By: JamesR (the other)

JamesR (the other) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:52:54 +0000

More from Justin Frank at Salon yesterday “Why Mitt screws up” http://www.salon.com/2012/07/28/why_mitt_screws_up/

By: brian london

brian london — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:47:16 +0000

Could Mitt pick Sarah Palin as his running mate?

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:55:21 +0000

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.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:34:55 +0000

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.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:22:21 +0000

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.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:18:35 +0000

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”

By: D

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:38:02 +0000

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.

By: André

André — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:34:50 +0000

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.

By: JamesR (the other)

JamesR (the other) — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:43:54 +0000

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.