Here is an Australian point of view on Mitt Romney and the presidential election.
In the minds of many critics, Mr Romney’s comments about Mr Obama’s “gifts” reinforces the idea that he lacked empathy with voters to start with. Many Republicans were lukewarm about their candidate: he was seen as the best of a lacklustre field.
In September, Mr Romney suffered much political flak, including from his own side, when he was reported as having told wealthy donors in Florida that he did not care about the 47 per cent of Americans who considered themselves victims.
As Republicans turn on him, exit polls from November 6 tend not to support Mr Romney’s conclusions. Mr Obama won a slightly smaller number of young voters overall, compared with 2008. He won about the same number of African-American voters. More Hispanics voted for Mr Obama, but their vote counted most in battleground states.
Mitt Romney doesn’t act like he failed. He acts like he was betrayed or cheated. He ought to look in the mirror and ask himself why everyone in the United Kingdom hates his guts. He is a very unpleasant man. No one likes him. That’s the beginning point for understanding why he lost. He probably thinks he wasn’t enough of a jerk. After all, the only jump he ever got in the polls was a reward for a debate performance in which he treated the president with disrespect and told about seventy-five lies. His base likes it when people tell lies about the president. But his base isn’t big enough to win a national election. Mitt Romney lost for a lot of reasons, but the most glaring reason is that he is a dick.
Dubya was a total dick, too, and petulant. But he was dickish to “others,” like Karla Faye Tucker. Not dickish to his potential voters.
Romney is more like an out and proud dick.
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So in order for Mitt to feel good about himself he has called the American people failures. Nice touch.
One can only presume that if he had won the presidency we would have been submitted to a continued barrage of his disappointment in how the globe failed him and HIS presidency.
Maybe Mitt and the Donald share more than we imagined.
he really IS a dick. I wonder if anyone has ever mentioned that to him?
Bishop Rmoney is a very serious egomaniac who likely has some psychotic tendencies—this allows him to imagine that the obvious human carnage and suffering caused by his abusive asset stripping and glorified loan sharking was “really” a great benefit to all those workers, biznesses and our economy. His enormous (economically dependent) family support and enable all these grand delusions of nobility, of course.
One imagines that Rmoney doesn’t have an actual friend in the world, although his family clearly would kill for him. We sure never heard from any of Mitt’s buddies, but we did hear from plenty of people with the misfortune to have had personal dealings with him in the past. People who blew the whistle on how deeply they disliked him. Not the greatest collection of character evidence, Willard.
So he is bitter and angry and likely filled with rage for Obama and his vicious “lies” and unscrupulous “gifts” and prejudiced tribal voting, etc, etc. Willard’s also not that smart, for all his clever loopholing and lawyering. He seems to actually believe the “conservative” goofballery of “sozializm!” and “Bengazi!” and “birth certificate!”, as well as the rightwing fantasy that 20% tax cuts shrink the deficit, but tax increases make it much worse. So he’s drunk the Kool-aid with gusto, which makes it simply impossible to declare him an intelligent man. He’s just not. He is a plutocrat Know Nothing.
Without intelligence there is no wisdom, and no mature reflection possible. And there is no one in Angry Mitt’s entourage to counsel him otherwise. There’s no possible therapist for the all-powerful Mormon Bishop of Masschusetts. Hell, Willard can’t even have a single goddamned drink, for Christ’s sake! Retarded. So he’ll stew in his own egomaniacal juices, just like the other childish “conservative” male, John McLoser. This party can really pick ’em!
I predict a peripetetic existence of jet setting and house collecting for Angry Mitt & Unhappy Ann. Aiding their many sons’ investments in rentier and loophole enterprises anywhere but ungrateful America. Perhaps he’ll fund some new rightwing extremist media concern or found a think tank whose goal is “exposing” the reality of the Kenyan Muzlim soshialist. We know how deep into the rightwing cesspool a bitter plutocrat can dive, haha. It’s essentially bottomless.
Anyway, please exit stage left, Willard, and the sooner the better. Perhaps you and The Family can relocate to the Caymans, or the Loire Valley, Monsieur Mitt? Why even pretend anymore? Au revoir, you turd. Please turn your much vaunted bizness acumen on the unfortunate citizens of some other country–see what their gub’mints can do to stop you and the Boyz and all your fables of economic expansion via corporate looting, the US has suffered enough from your lies and fantasies. “Gifts” indeed…
Used to be establishment GOP candidates were in on the con. But the establishment lost control of the con — er, party — to their marks. What’s killing the GOP is that their marks, now running for office, are sincere about this stuff.
Worse than a dick, he thinks his wealth is a gift from God and is proof that he is not a dick. He is just doing God’s work. God wants all of us to be rich, but some people are just too lazy, selfish and greedy to see it.
In other words, he is a Calvinist.
No, he’s a Mormon. That’s what they believe: if they have wealth, God gave it to them and their work is therefore just.
For example, check this:
“You’re onto something. I was the lone non-Mormon in my high school rock band. We practiced at the home of the bass player (whose brother, by the way, had been asked to play guitar for the Osmond brothers, which his parents did not allow). His father was an imposing figure whom we all sort of cowered in the presence of. One evening the father walked in while we were practicing. We all stopped immediately, afraid our volume had crossed a boundary. But he just wanted to chat. At one point he jokingly said, “I hope you boys aren’t taking drugs…” To which his son joked back,”No Dad. We only sell them.” The father smiled and replied: “Well that’s OK. Profit is Christian.””
Capitalism As Religion, Ctd
So we won’t have Mitt Romney to kick around any more?
Please.
Stop kicking him around now, folks. Your election addiction is frightening. It really is. If you were not so addicted to this edition of the government media complex-produced electoral soap opera series you would be able to see quite clearly that Romney’s “dickness” was the reason that he was nominated. If this had been a lower-level media production like professional wrestling he would have been the scowling, cheating bad guy and Obama would have been the All-American, manly-man hero.
Please.
Move on.
In fact…move away from this gobbledeygook.
Forget about Mitt Romney. He’s just another asshole, one who is a little richer than many other assholes an a great deal richer than most assholes. So what? If being an asshole was some kind of crime against nature there wouldn’t be so goddamned many of them, now would there? They serve a purpose. He served a purpose, and he continues to do so as long as y’all still feel like complaining about him. He keeps you occupied while the media controller magicians cook up their next scam.
Wake the fuck up.
Please.
Thank you and goodnight.
Later…
AG
Art, it was a reference to Nixon, although I suspect 90% of the readers weren’t born at the time he said that (1960).
I know that, Voice, but it’s beside the point. My point, anyway. My point is that kicking around any of these fools…or worshipping any of them as well…is a total waste of time. They are all fairly thoroughly bought and sold on one level or another, and the buyers and sellers generally get exactly what they wanted to get. They wanted Romney, and I believe it is because they wanted him to lose. Scream on them, not their hired putz.
AG
1962 actually, that late night meeting with the press following his thumping by Pat Brown for governor, the 50th anniversary of which America celebrates this year.
Correction noted.
AG, once again you miss the entire point.
Just as there are stages to grief, there are stages to giddy exhaltation.
We’ve been living under the gun (Bush, Bush, WHEN will Obama sell us out?, etc) that a clear, unadulterated victory is a blessing.
For some of us, its the first in our lives.
Give over, man. Come back in two weeks. Then it’ll be time to tell the children to come in from play and eat their damn broccoli.
If you’d do something sensible like saute the broccoli in olive oil with garlic and bacon (and don ‘t overcook it till it’s as limp as Limbaugh sans Viagra, dammit!), you wouldn’t have to beg them to eat it.
Works great with Brussels sprouts, too.
Oh, bullshit.
Number one, it was not an “unadulterated victory.” It was a partial victory. Carrying the House would have been an unadulterated victory, but Obama’s whatever-it-was in the 1st debate stopped that possibility right in its tracks. (Whatever-it-was. Slipup? Fake slipup so’s to carry the tomato can through the early rounds? Too tired? Too preoccupied? Slipped a mickey? Who knows? Not any of us, for sure. Whatever it was, it happened. Bet on it.)
Number two, the “giddy exhalation’ thing has been going on since the McCain/Palin fix. Add Rmoney to the cast of bad guys. While you’re at it, why not add Gorgeous George and The Undertaker too?
Ain’t about “broccoli,” it’s about playing the game well. Or…being part of the suckerpunch brigade.
Wake the fuck up.
Whadda buncha baloney.
AG
There were many unsettling anecdotes about Mitt (the dog on the roof, the hair-cutting attack, e.g.) that revealed his character, but for me one especially telling one was the story of how he commanded — not requested, commanded — one son, then a marketing “executive” with the Dodgers, to come to the annual summer week at the lake in New Hampshire. Never mind that Tagg was an adult, never mind it was at the height of the season for baseball — nope, the entire family is required to come to worship the patriarch:
http://www.newser.com/story/149293/romney-family-vacation-mandatory.html
The opening line of that story is: ” What kind of president would Mitt Romney make?” and the implicit answer is chilling.
I thought the bullying of the gay kid in high school was the most revealing.
Not only the act in itself, but that Willard couldn’t find anyone FROM HIGH SCHOOL – that would vouch for his character.
who the hell can’t find someone from HIGH SCHOOL that can say ‘ he’s a stand up guy’.
Oh, that one was definitely a chilling look inside what a heartless entitled thug (who has sycophants rather than friends) the man is and always has been at his core, all right.
But the vacation forced march story, it seems to me, is an equally revealing look into his rigidity, abuse of power, and overwhelming need to dominate and control everyone around him.
As president, I suspect, he would have been a colossal failure not least because he wouldn’t be able to CEO everyone into submission, and he wouldn’t cope well with such defiance.
I always found it bizarre that – to my viewing anyway – R$ always appeared on stage with an entire village full of people who were his sons, daughters in law and grandchildren. Aren’t those “children” grown up? don’t they have lives of their own? [I guess not, based on the anecdote you relate]. Were they all going to live in the White House? is the R$ family a cult?
The Bizarro Brady Bunch.
I had never seen “R-money” shortened to R$ before. I like it. That is all.
Would have required a huge expansion of the Secret Service to protect all those kids, spouses, and grandkids — and we all know that R$ would have demanded the perq along with transportation to the Camp David weekend family retreat.
Second the compliment on “R$” — so obvious that it’s odd that it took so long for someone to come up with it.
Willard Romney was the epitome of the ENTITLED White man in America.
Born on 3rd, he thought that he shouldn’t just be congratulated for crossing home, but worshipped for it.
He paid for college, law and business school with ‘ stock options’. His father bought him his first home.
And, his name got him his first business gig.
And, he had the nerve to talk about himself as a ‘self-made’ man.
He believed he was ENTITLED to be President of the United States.
And, can’t believe that it didn’t happen.
After all, Miss Ann said it was THEIR TURN.
Romney’s abundant anti-charm was apparent from the beginning. The most amazing part of the story is that he was chosen to be the candidate.
Sure, the competition was mostly laughable, but there’s only one universe where the big billions could have been spent on this guy, and that’s Republican Pretend World.
Not only did their emperor not have clothes on, this emperor was a goat.
Despite this, their make-believe worldview won’t be slowing down anytime soon. Here’s Newt this morning:
They’ve snookered themselves, but too many of the dogs just ain’t eating it.
Perhaps they’ll all soon self-rapture and spare us the continuing ugliness. By that i mean a legitimate rapture, of course.
Amanda knows this well:
It’s like the rats’ nest i’m taking apart up in the attic today … it really stinks, but they probably like that.