Is that really possible?

He certainly SEEMS like a bumbling moron, but I think the difference is GWB actually IS a moron. I think Romney is a smart guy who just doesn't care enough to get all the facts.

Neither are very skilled public speakers though it seems. A lot of chuckling and stumbling over words from both of them.

Dubya really was a moron, but he thought he was smart. He thought his stature was because of things HE did, instead of the help he received from Daddy, various enablers, witnesses who remained silent, the SCOTUS.

Romney is smart. But he's never had to play in a POLITICAL arena. I once got royally f*cked over on a partnership which involved venture capitalists and Wall Street investors. I wasn't in their league, and they knew it. After I lost everything, they genuinely didn't seem at all concerned about why I was so upset. "Hey, it's only business," they told me. The venture capital guys were very much like Romney. Terrible sense of humor, bordering on Asperger Syndrome. They just didn't know how to act around "regular" people, they only knew how to make deals.

Screwing over people like me was just another job, and I think that is what it is like for Romney. Sure, he's "smart," but he is socially inept. He HAS TO BE in order to destroy lives for profit the way he does. If he had an ounce of emotion, he'd be a failure at his job. If he "connected" to the little people, they'd get a leg up on him.

Bush kind of wished he really WAS one of the "little people." That's why he faked the hick accent and pretended he was a lowly cowboy. That behavior is very beneath Mr. Romney, who wears his privilege like a badge of honor, and can't understand why people don't like him. It's only business.

But I'm not a psychologist.

Is Aspergers a form of Autism? I worked with a guy at the ad agency who seemed perfectly "normal" in every way. Hell, he held down an $80,000 job at an ad agency. But when it came to discussing personal matters, or just general "stuff," he would just say the most crazy stuff. Like, there was no filter...he'd just say whatever came to his mind, be it personal stuff, financial stuff, whatever. That's how I know his salary, in fact...he sat at his desk one day and completed a mortgage application over the phone, and we all heard him recite his salary, bonus, alimony, net worth, everything...he didn't even think to go to a private room or something. He'd call his SO and discuss their problems while sitting at his desk next to us. He CONSTANTLY made totally inappropriate comments that seemed to be just flowing from his head without his having a clue about the ramifications. I don't know that he actually had Aspergers, but even he joked about it every now and then. However, I never knew it was a form of Autism. I thought it was a whole other thing.

What you describe can definitely show up in Asperger's people. Not me, for I tend to sit like a stuffed owl because I know that I can be unfiltered at times and guard against it. What gves me a little doubt is that he has an SO. Most, but definitely not all, Aspies do not have a partner. Long before I was diagnosed I realized that relationships were a minefield I did not ever want to set foot in.

The best way to describe Asperger's is that it's a social form of autism as opposed to "intellectual" autism, where the ceiling is a lot lower. Many Asperger's people are like Data from STNG. I am one of them. But I'm self-aware enough to at least try to minimize the instances when it shows too much or too obviously.

Rmoney seems to be to be a classic narcissist/sociopath rather than an Aspie.

Wait... That was sheiks.

Gosh. Thinking is hard work, eh Mittens?

Harvard Business School - well, that's like the School of Theology -- you can probably get a pass by being from the right stock and a True Believer. But, Mittens supposedly graduated from Harvard Law - how is that possible (maybe the same rules apply)?

I mean to say "Romney" and it comes out "Douchebag."

It elevates their social status. They're hangin' with the cool kids!

that ever found its way to a human face.