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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 08:49 AM Jul 2012

TAIBBI on Mitt: "like a teenager who stays up all night thinking of a way to impress the prom queen"

Romney's 'Free Stuff' Speech Is a New Low

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/romneys-free-stuff-speech-is-a-new-low-20120713#ixzz20bIuZ6Gr

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Romney can’t even be mean with any honesty. Even when he’s pandering to viciousness, ignorance and racism, it comes across like a scaly calculation. A guy who feels like he has to take a dump on the N.A.A.C.P. in Houston in order to connect with frustrated white yahoos everywhere else is a guy who has absolutely no social instincts at all. Someone like Jesse Helms at least had a genuine emotional connection with his crazy-mean-stupid audiences. But Mitt Romney has to think his way to the lowest common denominator, which is somehow so much worse.

Most presidents have something under the hood – wit, warmth, approachability, something. Even the most liberal football fan could enjoy watching an NFL game with George Bush. And even a Klansman probably would have found some of LBJ’s jokes funny. The biggest office in the world requires someone who buzzes with enough personality to fill the job, and most of them have it.

But Romney doesn’t buzz with anything. His vision of humanity is just a million tons of meat floating around in a sea of base calculations. He’s like a teenager who stays up all night thinking of a way to impress the prom queen, and what he comes up with is kicking a kid in a wheelchair. Instincts like those are probably what made him a great leveraged buyout specialist, but in a public figure? Man, is he a disaster. It’s really incredible theater, watching the Republicans talk themselves into this guy.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/romneys-free-stuff-speech-is-a-new-low-20120713

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TAIBBI on Mitt: "like a teenager who stays up all night thinking of a way to impress the prom queen" (Original Post) kpete Jul 2012 OP
lawd, this guy can write. He sort of reminds me of babylonsister Jul 2012 #1
humanity is just a million tons of meat floating around in a sea of base calculations undeterred Jul 2012 #2
Mitt's Vacuous Soul trumad Jul 2012 #3
Excellent analogy of the chid candidate. liberal N proud Jul 2012 #4
+ underpants Jul 2012 #5
Just great writing BeyondGeography Jul 2012 #6
"Even the most liberal football fan could enjoy watching an NFL game with George Bush" raouldukelives Jul 2012 #7
I'll watch football sulphurdunn Jul 2012 #9
I've seen corpses with more charisma than Romney. Ikonoklast Jul 2012 #8
What he said! Taibbi has the creep factor down cold. nolabear Jul 2012 #10
'Insectlike'! You nailed it! randome Jul 2012 #13
You're right! He is Kafkaesque! lunatica Jul 2012 #15
Scared the shit out of me seeing him smile DevonRex Jul 2012 #18
"he's got this insectlike aspect" like a big koch roach! nt Amonester Jul 2012 #24
Weird how Mittens is fine with telling voters they should vote for someone else treestar Jul 2012 #11
"Scaly calculation." Romney's eyes are vacant. DirkGently Jul 2012 #12
The GOP knows that Romney is a bona fide turkey. vlyons Jul 2012 #14
He's so bad, I bet many Senate/House candidates won't want to be seen with him! reformist2 Jul 2012 #26
He owes me a new keboard. jerseyjack Jul 2012 #16
I just love these two young ladies. GeorgeGist Jul 2012 #17
Truly a shame the gun wasn't real hifiguy Jul 2012 #20
Taibbi gets it. hifiguy Jul 2012 #19
hahaha... remember the preppy image from the 80's? fascisthunter Jul 2012 #21
My Favorite Quote... Jeff In Milwaukee Jul 2012 #22
knr Douglas Carpenter Jul 2012 #23
Excellent- he really is a gifted writer. KaryninMiami Jul 2012 #25
No one says it better than Matt Taibbi mountain grammy Jul 2012 #27
EXACTLY on point! nt Raine Jul 2012 #28
He's like Hunter S Thompson would have been had he not been drunk or stoned all the time n/t eridani Jul 2012 #29

raouldukelives

(5,178 posts)
7. "Even the most liberal football fan could enjoy watching an NFL game with George Bush"
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 09:41 AM
Jul 2012

I think not! Well, maybe if he was forced to play QB for the opposing side.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
8. I've seen corpses with more charisma than Romney.
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 10:12 AM
Jul 2012

They were also more self-aware, even though room temperature.

nolabear

(41,984 posts)
10. What he said! Taibbi has the creep factor down cold.
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 10:21 AM
Jul 2012

It's the most confounding thing, and the scariest. Romney is the guy you know with your gut you don't want to be caught alone in a room with because tehre's something wrong with him. Beyond the stupid policy, he's got this insectlike aspect, the kind of thing that screams that he's not quite like other humans. And that man, you do NOT want representing you in any form and under any circumstances.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
15. You're right! He is Kafkaesque!
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 10:45 AM
Jul 2012

The creepy factor is definitely there. He even scuttles when he walks! Just like an insect.

DevonRex

(22,541 posts)
18. Scared the shit out of me seeing him smile
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 11:22 AM
Jul 2012

When he got booed at the NAACP the other day. It wasn't a nervous reaction. You could tell right then and there it was what he intended and wanted.

I'm glad they booed him anyway because it was just that obvious.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
11. Weird how Mittens is fine with telling voters they should vote for someone else
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 10:29 AM
Jul 2012

He didn't make that speech to try to convince anyone to vote for him. The whole thing was staged for some other purpose.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
14. The GOP knows that Romney is a bona fide turkey.
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 10:44 AM
Jul 2012

The GOP leadership and the gazillionaires in those quiet rooms must be wringing their hands and pulling their hair out at the prospect of selling Romney, the turkey, to voters. Romney is such a creepy person and horrible candidate. The eternal flip-flop that drives him is his total opportunism, forever ready to snitch on his best friend, sell you down the river, break any contract, and then draw up his body in outrage that anyone would even suggest that his conduct is less than stellar. What it tells me is that the GOP brand is completely bankrupt. Romney belongs in the history books along with the Krupps and other German industrialists who sold out to Hitler.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
19. Taibbi gets it.
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 11:26 AM
Jul 2012

Rmoney is a failed experiment by the "scientists" on Kolob. They shot for a Data and came up with this pathetic audio-animatronic drone.

 

fascisthunter

(29,381 posts)
21. hahaha... remember the preppy image from the 80's?
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 12:52 PM
Jul 2012

He reminds me of a caricature of that very identity.

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
22. My Favorite Quote...
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 01:20 PM
Jul 2012

"The twin appearances revealed the candidate to be not merely unlikable, and not merely a fatuous, unoriginal hack of a politician, but also a genuinely repugnant human being, a grasping corporate hypocrite with so little feel for how to get along with people that he has to dream up elaborate schemes just to try to pander to the mob."

Amen.

KaryninMiami

(3,073 posts)
25. Excellent- he really is a gifted writer.
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 11:40 PM
Jul 2012

Just another reminder of the terrifying prospect of this man actually becoming president. There really is something creepy about him.

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