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highplainsdem

(48,921 posts)
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:27 PM Sep 2012

Salon: Dear Mitt, you walk funny

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/19/dear_mitt_you_walk_funny/

Dear Mitt,

I think it’s your hips. I saw you on television yesterday on a platform and you turned to your left and it looked like you being rotated on a lazy Susan. You take tiny steps like a little ballerina. Your torso doesn’t bend. Your arms seem connected to your shoulders with quarter-inch lag bolts. As performance art it was sort of beautiful the way nothing in your hips or torso betrayed any animal vitality, as though you’d been drained of bodily fluids by a Republican scientist. But this avant-garde dance is unlikely to win votes.

How could a president who takes such tiny steps ever rope a steer? is what voters are thinking. Remember George W. Bush, how they asked him why he had that swagger and he said that down in Texas it’s what they call “walking”? That was pretty good. He swaggered and he was a dumbass. We could relate.

He was scary but in a different way from the way you are scary. He was scary like a dumb jock. How could George W. Bush be a plutocrat if he couldn’t pronounce “plutocrat”? You are scary like a cyborg. We’re afraid you’re going to put us in a machine that harvests our organs.

You know what I loved in that tape of you talking to your donors? It was the part where you talked about these misguided people who think they deserve food. That was awesome. Forty-seven percent of the electorate misguidedly believe they deserve food. Wait till news gets out. That was brilliant.

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Salon: Dear Mitt, you walk funny (Original Post) highplainsdem Sep 2012 OP
Molly Ivins, is it you? morningglory Sep 2012 #1
I miss her, too. And I think Molly would've loved this column from Cary Tennis. highplainsdem Sep 2012 #3
. n/t porphyrian Sep 2012 #2
Haven't read Cary Tennis in a while, that was great. TwilightGardener Sep 2012 #4
His walk is creepy, just like his smile and laugh. PearliePoo2 Sep 2012 #5
I'd say it's the corncob up his ass! n/t backscatter712 Sep 2012 #7
Could be his Cha Sep 2012 #8
alk kardonb Sep 2012 #19
walk kardonb Sep 2012 #20
And here I thought you meant you didn't know how to use the edit button. lonestarnot Sep 2012 #22
I'm still trying to figure out which Cylon # Mitt is. nt msanthrope Sep 2012 #6
He's not far removed from Cavil... backscatter712 Sep 2012 #9
Actually, I think he's more like Agent Smith from the Matrix. backscatter712 Sep 2012 #10
He does have Smith's sneer and smirk down. Indpndnt Sep 2012 #14
Do a Google search on "Alzheimer's gait" LongTomH Sep 2012 #11
He walks like "a good little boy" siligut Sep 2012 #12
Whenever I watch Mitt walk, spartan61 Sep 2012 #16
Ooooh, thank you for that image siligut Sep 2012 #17
that's EXACTLY how he walks! renate Sep 2012 #23
After listening to parts 1 & 2, I take back every comment I've made about the possibility the sad sally Sep 2012 #13
And Ann "Stella" Romney. longship Sep 2012 #15
I'd love to see a Feiffer cartoon depicting this... B Stieg Sep 2012 #18
pigeon-toed? mehrrh Sep 2012 #21
maybe it's a medical condition -- he was in a serious car crash as a youth nt MariaM83 Sep 2012 #24
and maybe it screwed up his capacity for empathy as well . . . Lex Sep 2012 #25
from the stories of the cruel pranks he played as teen, I doubt he ever had much MariaM83 Sep 2012 #26
I've long thought that he walks like someone --- Grammy23 Sep 2012 #27
seems to me that, rather than criticize those whose income iemitsu Sep 2012 #28
He walks like he thinks he's John Wayne. Seriously. He's trying to be John Wayne. n/t drlit Sep 2012 #29

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
5. His walk is creepy, just like his smile and laugh.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:34 PM
Sep 2012

It may be petty, but that little stutter step of his is very unattractive and wimpy. It's like he has something up his ass.
I don't find him attractive at all. Yuk.

 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
22. And here I thought you meant you didn't know how to use the edit button.
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 12:39 AM
Sep 2012

Welcome to DU There is one you know (an edit button).

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)
10. Actually, I think he's more like Agent Smith from the Matrix.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:44 PM
Sep 2012

He's actually a computer program.

Though Mark Hamill said Romney's like The Thing - he can only imitate human behavior, but he's not actually human himself.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
12. He walks like "a good little boy"
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:47 PM
Sep 2012

He looks like the third grader who is going on stage to read the Mother's Day poem he wrote. I am guessing he is a mama's boy, just watch the way he looks at Ann while she defends/supports him.

spartan61

(2,091 posts)
16. Whenever I watch Mitt walk,
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:06 PM
Sep 2012

it looks to me like he has a load in his pants. He's trying to be so careful that the turd doesn't fall out on the floor.

renate

(13,776 posts)
23. that's EXACTLY how he walks!
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 12:47 AM
Sep 2012

I have to admit, if I liked him I wouldn't make fun of the way he walked. Everybody has their little goofy mannerisms. But because I don't like him, I love your description--it's really accurate!

sad sally

(2,627 posts)
13. After listening to parts 1 & 2, I take back every comment I've made about the possibility the
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:48 PM
Sep 2012

man has first stage dementia. His problem isn't with his head - it's his heart. He doesn't have one - he IS a machine, not a human being.

mehrrh

(233 posts)
21. pigeon-toed?
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 12:33 AM
Sep 2012

I don't know what it is, but I have also noticed that Romney has a peculiar stride. Small, mincing steps, as opposed to the long strides men usually take - even short men. I agree there is something about his hip that probably causes it ----or maybe it's the "special underwear" of the Mormons. It is another factor that contributes to the perception that there is something odd about the man in more ways than one.

MariaM83

(233 posts)
26. from the stories of the cruel pranks he played as teen, I doubt he ever had much
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 01:06 AM
Sep 2012

Leading a visually-impaired teacher to walk into a door as a joke?

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
27. I've long thought that he walks like someone ---
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 01:32 AM
Sep 2012

with a back problem. He seems stiff and awkward and when he turns he kind of rotates around. Very odd. I have back issues myself, so I know it can affect the way you walk. No one has elaborated on whether Mitt has back problems that I know of.

No matter what the reason, his gait definitely adds to the impression that he is "stiff" and not comfortable on stage or with crowds.....even if they are adoring fans.

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
28. seems to me that, rather than criticize those whose income
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 01:32 AM
Sep 2012

is low enough to exempt them from paying federal income tax, we ought to be embarrassed and apologetic.
these people just scrape by. many are retired from lifetimes of work. others have been disabled in the service of our country. and still others work more than one job and don't make enough money to pay for basic needs. and romney says they contribute nothing.
for romney to imply that those with limited income are leaches is outrageous. some of the 47% he refers to may be there as a result of romney stealing their pension. who is the leach? he never produced any real product. he is enron. he sells schemes to fleece others. a flim-flam man. and to act as if the underclass can lift themselves up and thrive if they would just adopt a new attitude is ridiculous when romney and his ilk have all the money. they are not sharing. that is the problem.
if half of us live at or below the poverty level their is something very wrong with our economic structure.

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