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HuskiesHowls

(711 posts) Tue Nov 6, 2012, 07:30 PM Nov 2012

Heard a most interesting reason NOT to vote for Romney today.....

Talking to a friend at work about voting, he said that no way was he going to vote for Romney. His reason was pretty simple--he saw a picture of Romney holding a baby, and said "He can't even hold a baby right!! How does he expect to run this country?? He's a shyster and a slimeball. There's no way I'd vote for him."

I just had to grin and go back to work.....

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Heard a most interesting reason NOT to vote for Romney today..... (Original Post) HuskiesHowls Nov 2012 OP

Good enough!! Buddaman Nov 2012 #1

Actually, for what Kahnemann would call a "Type-1 judgment," Jackpine Radical Nov 2012 #2

He probably never held his own children....he had "people" to do that.... Swede Atlanta Nov 2012 #3

I saw him sorta grab a baby from it's mother Tippy Nov 2012 #4

I think JHK summed it up nicely. Strelnikov_ Nov 2012 #5

In contrast to all the pics of Obama with kids.. loyalsister Nov 2012 #6

He holds them away from himself like he assumes they are pooping on him. Which I bet they want to. Squinch Nov 2012 #7

I haven't seen one photo of Romney holding a baby where baby is happy. LisaL Nov 2012 #8

Remember a baby who would not stop crying question everything Nov 2012 #9

Buddaman

(503 posts)

1. Good enough!!

Reply to HuskiesHowls (Original post)

Tue Nov 6, 2012, 07:32 PM

Nov 2012

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

2. Actually, for what Kahnemann would call a "Type-1 judgment,"

Reply to HuskiesHowls (Original post)

Tue Nov 6, 2012, 07:33 PM

Nov 2012

that's a pretty good one. Reminiscent of Lakoff's single most-reliable question for assessing someone's politics:

"If a baby cries in the night, do you get up to feed it?"

Conservatives almost always answer no.

Swede Atlanta

(3,596 posts)

3. He probably never held his own children....he had "people" to do that....

Reply to HuskiesHowls (Original post)

Tue Nov 6, 2012, 07:38 PM

Nov 2012

I doubt he ever changed a diaper, fed them a bottle, etc. He had nannies and surrogates to do all the "dirty" work.

Tippy

(4,610 posts)

4. I saw him sorta grab a baby from it's mother

Reply to HuskiesHowls (Original post)

Tue Nov 6, 2012, 07:41 PM

Nov 2012

he was definately not being gentle, and it almost looked like he tossed it back....

Strelnikov_

(7,772 posts)

5. I think JHK summed it up nicely.

Reply to HuskiesHowls (Original post)

Tue Nov 6, 2012, 07:47 PM

Nov 2012

http://kunstler.com/blog/2012/11/the-tides-of-event.html

Mitt Romney's sickening insincerity was on full view Sunday night as CNN served up both candidates complete finish-line pitches to the Ohio crowds thought to hold the fate of the election in their fickle sway. Romney has consistently proved one thing over the whole, long, nauseating course of his campaign: that he will say anything to get a vote, no matter how hollow, fatuous, craven, or at odds with reality the utterance is.

Last night he went on about how the USA would become "energy independent" when he opens all federal lands to oil drilling. This plays on some lamebrain notion that there are vast fields of easy-to-get oil sitting out under the Wyoming hardpan waiting to be tapped. Surely Mitt know better.. or does he? The reality is that these lands fell into federal ownership largely because they had so little value in the first place. If there was another Spindletop lurking under the sagebrush you can be sure it would have been found long before now, so Mr. Romney is just preying on the public's wishful ignorance (or his own) when he says these things.

. . .

Finally, I just don't like Mitt Romney. He's the over-eager twerp in the classroom with his arm always sticking up. He's the missionary bozo in a necktie ringing your doorbell to sell a fairy-tale cult religion dreamed up in the 1820s by another over-eager con artist. He's obviously using the national stage to work out his father issues (George Romney ran for president in 1968, blundering his way out of the race early on). He shamelessly panders to the worst elements of his own party - the ignorant, militaristic, punitive-minded Nascar evangelicals - and dissembles so automatically that there is nothing left of whatever core beliefs he might have theoretically developed earlier in his career. He's too chicken to engage with the realities of climate change, so visibly on display this season. He's spoiling to rumble with China, apparently oblivious to the fact that China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jingping, is an army brat. I pray at my little alter of ecumenical totems that the tides of history will sweep Mitt Romney out to the seas of retirement from public life, where he can enjoy his Medicare entitlements secure in the guarantee that he will not be hassled over any pre-existing conditions.