from the Broadway hit, "Book of Mormon" might help explain the phenomenon:

Elder:I've got a feeling,
That you could be feeling,
A whole lot better then you feel today
You say you got a problem,
well thats no problem,
It\'s super easy not to feel that way!

When you start to get confused because of thoughts in your head,
Don\'t feel those feelings!
Hold them in instead

Turn it off, like a light switch
just go click!
It\'s a cool little Mormon trick!
We do it all the time
When your feeling certain feels that just don\'t feel right
Treat those pesky feelings like a reading light
and turn em off,
Like a light switch just go bap!
Really whats so hard about that?
Turn it off! (Turn it off!)

When I was young my dad,
Would treat my mom real bad,
every time the Utah Jazz would loose.
He\'d start a\' drinking,
and I\'d start a thinking,
How am I gonna keep my mom from getting abused?

For the rest: http://www.themusicallyrics.com/b/225-the-book-of-mormon-musical/1307-turn-it-off.html

The aid is just confimring what everyone already thought.

'every other post on DU is a vicious attack against him' Enjoy your stay.

"He's so weird that every other post on DU"

..weird that you showed up: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002354584

If I had a quarter of a billion dollars, I'd be doing lots of other things, especially if my previous attempts to run didn't work out and my current attempt wasn't meeting with great success.

even when their people were rioting in the streets because they wanted them gone? Some people just can't take a hint.

weird...

Asshole!

I can see myself doing that.

Of course, I wouldn't then try to spin it as a great experience of personal growth and a lesson in humility, but that's because I'm not a politician.

To a certain extent, most politicians, be they left, right, or center, have at least a little bit of the weird about them. Normal people are (for better or worse) less likely to run for office.

first of all, the guy is tone-deaf

the 'wanna bet $10,000' in the middle of a debate, in front of evangelicals in Iowa, most of which are against gambling, a bet that probably isnt even LEGAL right in front of the governor - this from a guy who is supposedly devoiutly religious, not even drinking a diet coke because it has caffine in it. it really smacked of 'look how much money i have! i can bully people around, because i can afford to lose it and they cant!' (which takes me to the next two paragraphs)

and his bain capital history is gross in most people's eyes, a corporate raider, playing with money very rich people can afford to lose, sucking the juice out of companies when they're vulnerable, and leaving them destroyed

even the 'staples' he touts is nothing to crow about. it's a category killer that put most office supply mom and pop stores out of business. i really doubt he 'created any net jobs, but he made sure that anyone who works in office supplies does NOT work for themselves, they have to work for a big corporation. nothing wrong with the staples store, but is there anything there that you coudnt find before?

the message from this primary, is that he is a pill that even the republicans cant force down, they just dont like him

sometimes, people will say someone seems 'plastic'. but with him, it's more than a figure of speech

That is a good description of what I've seen in Romney for a long time. That is what makes him look like a robot or an alien impersonating a human. The fact that he's like that when he's not on stage is really creepy.