Posted on 09/17/2012 6:58:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Intertoobz are ablaze with the video posted by David Corn on Monday afternoon, in which Willard Romney re-enacts the great comeuppance scene from A Face In The Crowd, except with less sweating and superior coiffure. And I agree that the footage, recorded at an "intimate fundraiser" with "a small group of wealthy contributors," offers an extraordinary look at what the candidate is like when he's around people he perceives to be worthy of what he believes is the truth. And I also agree that, when the One Great Scorer comes to write against Romney's name, he's going to be stumped as to whether the man was a bigger jerk than he was an incompetent. There won't be enough whiskey in heaven for the OGS to resolve this, so he'll just fill in the box marked "Both" and move right along.
To this moment, I guarantee you, Romney is probably astonished at what all the fuss is about. This is simply the way the world is. There is himself, Willard Romney, and his perfect family, and his perfect life, and there is The Help, and The Help gets drunk on the job, and prunes the shrubbery badly, and pockets the silverware, and makes off with the odd can of salmon out of the pantry. He is who he is today because his breeding and his genes and his god have arranged him to be through a serious of immutable laws against which only a fool or The Help would presume to argue. He is what his golden life has made him to be, and his golden life was only the bare minimum of that to which god and nature entitled him. To ask him to doubt any of this is to ask him to doubt gravity or the movement of the tides.
(And, holy blog in heaven, imagine what a genuinely balls-out progressive president could do with this tape. The man has declared a class war on himself. Please, whoever's doing the president's ads for him, ignore that message that Geithner left on your voice mail this afternoon.)
God, he's a foof and, god, are they selling his ass out wholesale. Somebody shipped this tape to Corn for the express purpose of confirming every single stereotype of Romney in which people already had come to despise. This is a perfect demonstration of what every other Republican candidate came to hate about him in 2008 — I'm willing to bet that old John McCain is pouring himself a nice Merlot tonight, and chuckling evilly to himself — and what drove Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich around the bend four years later.
We are coming rapidly toward a devastating confluence of two colliding panics. The Romney campaign is panicking about itself, and the Republicans are panicking about the Romney campaign. He cannot come back from this, honestly. This is who he is. This is what he believes the world to be. Half the electorate already thinks he's a fake, which means he's not a very good one. There's really only one campaign left to him now.
Unfortunately for American politics, that means only one thing. It's going to get extraordinarily dirty extraordinarily fast. There is going to be pale birtherism and barely covert racism. The body of Ambassador Christopher Stevens is going to be exhumed and used as a bludgeon. There is going to be poor-baiting, and gay-baiting, and ladyparts-baiting, and probably baiting of things I haven't thought of yet. The polite part of the campaign is going to be Romney's effort to convince You that he was really talking about Them when he was calling people moochers and sneak thieves. He wasn't talking about Your Medicare or Your Social Security. Naw, he was talking about Their greed for what You have. That's going to be the polite part of the rest of the campaign, reinforced in the lower registers by a few million in ads to make sure You remember who They are.
There ain't no goin' back, as the song goes, when the foot of pride comes down. Ain't no goin' back.
Oh, so probably was drunk then.
Charles Pierce is an old Boston gas bag who used write for that old leftist rag The Boston Phoenix. Don’t stare at him as you walk by.
“Half the electorate already thinks he’s a fake, which means he’s not a very good one.”
Not nearly as accomplished at lying and being fake as Obama so that’s a good thing.
Those little indy rags churn out some of the strangest writers you’re ever likely to see.
This crowd won't get out of bed to vote unless driven this year. Most especially if they are led to believe that Obama has it in the bag... But Romney's problem is that twenty percent of his 47% are the 'unemployed' due to Obama's economics.
Liberals have spent the past 3+ years bashing the wealthy. Romney is their poster child. Truth never matters to liberals. Romney seems to be brain dead on what creates jobs and that it take place best outside of government bailouts and picking those too big to fail. People are hungry to hear about economic freedom and keeping elected official out of their businesses.
I believe a majority of American voters will recognize what Romney said as the truth. Good news!
I AGREE...he’s just speaking the truth but will be crucified for it.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how gay do you have to be to decipher this guys writing?
WELL, if you say you are voting for Opayme, you have to be concerned that you be seen by your fellow Americans’ as a TAKER.. The evidence could overwhelmingly be viewed as suspect at least.. BRILLIANT!
Isn’t it strange that the “news” media can come up with these manufactured “gotcha’” moments only on Repubs, but never Dems? Zero’s bitter clinger statement was reported and then quickly covered over with something else to get people’s attention (usually, it’s something crass about the Repub) and then forgotten (as much as possible).
Is Esquire so stylin’, that it’s homosexual?
That wasn’t a very smart thing to say at a fundraiser.
It sounds like he is apologizing for being about to lose.
Would you give money to a candidate that admits 47% of the vote is going to his opponent no matter what!?
What are the odds that Romney can get 94% or the remaining 53%? Pretty low.
Romney should have figured out how to reach some of the 47%, but instead he wrote them off. If he showed them a path to get the economy going and get them off of the public dole, he’d have a chance to reach some of those people. But instead he writes them off.
That wasn’t a very smart thing to say at a fundraiser.
It sounds like he is apologizing for being about to lose.
Would you give money to a candidate that admits 47% of the vote is going to his opponent no matter what!?
What are the odds that Romney can get 94% or the remaining 53%? Pretty low.
Romney should have figured out how to reach some of the 47%, but instead he wrote them off. If he showed them a path to get the economy going and get them off of the public dole, he’d have a chance to reach some of those people. But instead he writes them off.
Just like Vanity Fair, all the “mens” health magazines, Details, Maxim, etc..
Good for romney - screw these parasites!!!!
Didn’t you say you’re not voting for him? If so, what do you care?
A pinko from Massachusetts, sports columnist/writer.
I’ll tell you. I read up on the 47 million or 47% earlier this year, to see who they are (wondering how do I get to pay no taxes?). Something like a third earn below $20k or $30k a year, most are lower middle class, and some thousands are actually millionaires. So most are either at poverty level or getting the benefit of deductions, I guess (I don’t know how a millionaire doesn’t pay any taxes). But it’s not true that those who don’t pay income taxes are necessarily on the public dole. He’ll be absolutely slammed on this, esp because of the tone he used (we just came out of a recession, with a lot of people plunging into poverty), and he was wrong on the facts. You don’t win the Presidency by disparaging half of the citizens. Things just keep getting worse. Maybe the debates will help.
I would be surprised if 47% of the 47% even bother going to the polls.
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