Can you just vote for the guy without getting all mushy about him?
Posted on 11/03/2012 10:20:24 AM PDT by A'elian' nation
Romney’s Mona Lisa smile
The Italians have words for it; the meaning of that famous smile. The tight lips with the ‘giocondo’ smirk of self-amusement. The ‘sfumato’ smile of blurry ambiguity leaving all to the imagination.
But there was little left to the imagination in the Mona Lisa smile of Mitt Romney. It was everywhere in that final debate; that tight smile and warm eyes. The face that never wavered. It was a constant reflection into his opponent’s rage. It softly deflected the opposing aspirant’s mean eyes darting the fiery embers of spent dark coal. The gentle face absorbed the blasts full of mendaciousness with unusual calm. What was in that smile? Was it beguilement, bemusement, beneficence, bewilderment, or was it a simple knowing that passeth the understanding of the desperation and despair of a cowardly Cloward- ideologue’s last days?
That smile. The smile of a father more knowing than his wayward son. A smile of strength with the confidence of experience behind it. Never haughty; just all knowing. A smile that knew his opponent better than The One did himself. The tight lips and glistening eyes conveyed more than just resolve and assurance. A kindness showed through. And compassion. A face of a man that has seen and hit every bump in the road only to persevere and become the better for it with the help and care he gave along the way.
It was a cheek never turned. The high Chero-cheek bones and jutting jaw of gentle defiance. A visage that could weather withering fusillades of fury. The cheek bones were resolute but had the effect of drawing out the extended pursed lips. High cheeks, not etched Clint-clenched, but enough to make his day against any antagonist apparent to millions that watched.
Yet that smile and glint of the eye revealed even deeper truths. It exposed the wrinkles of equanimity and inner peace. A soul well searched and ready for its final calling. A deep set smile catapulting a man with a higher cause and purpose. For all the vicissitudes sent his way, the smears, the slanders - all were swept away by that one smile. The smile that let the nation know that goodness doesn’t always come in last. A smile as wide as it was lingering many days after. A trusted smile that will find its way into a presidential portrait for the ages. Maybe even into the Louvre.
I thought it was the smile of man turning the other cheek while his enemy exhausted himself.
The key is sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
That explains what Biden was trying to pull in his debate. Except that he came through as a clown.
His smile is confident and natural and has a little bit of sad in it.
Obama has the huge gay smile and the little mean one.
His smile is confident and natural and has a little bit of sad in it.
Obama has the huge gay smile and the little mean one.
Guys, how worried are we over cheating- the manipulation of early votes, suppression of military overseas votes, manipulation of machines, etc?
I know the RR team is aware of how bad it can get and how desperate these characters are, yet how BO might not want the job, even though it’s easy for him- just send Mooch on a vacay regularly and play lots o’ golf- the press will cover for anything else including blatant disregard for the country.
Sigh.
I should just shut it all down and go read a book. Oh, or go pray.
Ugh, so gay!
And the other smile so obviously evil. People have to be steeped in it to miss the disdain and hatred in that face.
Excuse me while I find my insulin. Nothing against Romney, but I think he smiles like someone watching a sliver being removed...
A fitting theme for the last two days of this campaign!
The Founders of America, impassioned believers in Creator-endowed life, liberty, rights, laws to protect them, and freedom of individual enterprise and opportunity certainly would echo Mitt Romney's statement today!
After centuries of Government-over-People arrangements, whether by one, a few, or many, our Founders saw liberty as a Creator-endowed blessing (see Preamble to Constitution), and that Constitution which formed our Republic changed that arrangement to a Creator - People - Governmeent form of self-government which protected those "blessings" of liberty.
Revenge is not an emotion which is conducive to good government or successful individual lives.
Hopefully, on Tuesday, American citizens, motivated by an internal longing for more liberty and less government will have made their appeal to Divine Providence, as did the Founders, and exercise their sacred right to vote for a leader who appeals, not to their baser emotions, but to their God-given longings and desires.
Perhaps we might be inspired by listening to a tremendous modern hymn entitled, "Heal Our Land," by Orrin Hatch,, as performed by Winton Phipps.
Interesting you should say that. Dr. Tim Hagle, a professor in the University of Iowa Political Science Department just tweeted the following while watching Mitt Romney give his speech at the rally in Dubuque, IA a few minutes ago:
Tim Hagle@ProfHagle
Strikes me that @MittRomney sounds sad rather than angry when talking about promises he says Obama d/n keep.
#battle4dbq
Can you just vote for the guy without getting all mushy about him?
I saw the face of evil in that debate. It wasn’t Romney’s face.
“You can’t plan sincerity. You have to make it up, on the spot” - Denny Crane
That's how I reacted to it, too. I think sad because he saw Obama unravel.
In some rooms he looks like a runt with an ill fitting suit. In the sit-room when OBL was taken down, he looks like a kid in high school, college tops.
His suit sleeves do not cover his wrists correctly. It makes his wrists look bony which makes the suit look a little big on him. And the sleeve don't not protrude from his suit sleeve. Romney looks more pleasantly decked out.
IMHO. Michelle should have given him the once over before he went out to make corrections. I do that for Mr. hummingbird because I love him and want to be sure he looks good. If the Mr. wants to wear Joe Boxer and t-shirts at home, that's okay. But, when he is in public, I want him to be as best put together as possible.
I'm hoping the two of them will want to get the hell out of dodge to keep him from possible impeachment. How can you write a third autobiography with that standing out.
If he loses, he has all niumber of boogy men to blame. At some point it will, of course, be Bush's fault. At some point, it will be whitey' fault. In no way will it ever be his fault.
He and his minions will make sure his time as president is clean and unvarnished. Reputation. Legacy. Must. Be. Upheld.
Funny!
Yes...er, um...I mean, no...or yes...or maybe...I'm not sure but I will be voting for him!
I know. It’s just that applying common sense to their choices and behavior is usually a waste of effort.
If he’s a puppet, he’ll do what his handlers make him do. THat’s what he looked like in the first debate, like he was ready to throw in the towel.
Maybe he owes people a debt he cannot pay unless he’s in, and these people don’t care about the Benghazi backlash, and Bammy has to make a choice between that backlash and his handlers’ punishments (they won’t deal w Romney). Even if Bammy “throws the game” he has to make it look somewhat sincere.
I know - I need to step away from the news.
Humility.
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