Posted on 03/10/2012 4:22:42 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
A man of constant sorrow who roams this world alone, doomed to realize his greatest loves only in dreams.
Does this sound like the description of a man running for President?
More like a tortured artist, right?
Believe it or not, that’s the inner life suggested by the songs Mitt Romney cherished enough to put on his Spotify playlist.
Yes, it’s that Mitt Romney we’re talking about, better known as a wildly successful business tycoon, doting family man, eager public servant and all around handsome guy.
Who knew?
Romney opens his 25 song list with The Soggy Bottom Boys’ version of that classic song of suffering “I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow.” He goes on to pepper the list with Clint Black’s cover of the Eagles’ ode to a shut-down loner “Desperado,” Roy Orbison’s uber-mopey “Crying” (along with his classic song of thwarted love “In Dreams”), Johnny Cash’s rumination on eternal damnation, “Ring of Fire,” and Willie Nelson’s take on the ultimate song of hopeless yearning, “Somewhere Over The Rainbow.”
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Reznor.
I bet the money guys are thinking they've bet on the wrong horse.
My thoughts too. Just his attempt to show he feels what the common man is going through. Can't stand the guy.
It's a humorous clash of Romney handlers leaking the list in order to appeal to Southern "rubes" and the MSM using it to their advantage.
Thank you for the links. I think Romney would sell his soul to have “it.” He’s flat without dimension.
Excellent point. There are millions of them. And they see nothing wrong with having thrown their vote away on Bobby "Viagra" Dole and Johnny "Juan" McCain, and then being told to vote for Mittens "Individual Mandate" Romney by the Republican Party liberal elite and good 'ol Charlie Krauthammer on Fox News & Friends. He made me sick last night (my wife just loves Charles) invoking William F Buckley's "rule"--to vote for the most conservative candidate who has a chance at winning. What a joke this stinking Republican Party is. But at least they know that with the electorate as it is in America today, there is no hope for a fiscally and socially conservative candidate to ever be nominated much less win an election because all of the women in America are just turned off and angered by any male who claims to have a moral compass and sees abortions as what they truly are. We have marginalized and vilified white conservative males to such an extent that even when a "black" conservative makes an appearance he is quickly snuffed out without so much as a peep from Farrakhan or Jackson or Rangel et al. yelling discrimination. Romney--an across-the-aisle deal-maker, a former governor of the state of Taxachusetts, the author of the individual mandate and an anti-Second Amendment and pro-abortion/contraception liberal if ever there was one--has suddenly magically morphed into a conservative? How gullible and stupid we have truly become as a people. Four more years of Obama coming right up. Why settle for a white male socialist when you can have a black one who is also a Muslim who bows and scrapes and apologizes to America's enemies, and to the oil emirs in their caliphate? So all of the candidates are frantically trying to position themselves so they will not "alienate" the female vote. In the meantime all of the eligible white females are marrying and cohabiting with black and hispanic males because white males have been feminized by the power female elite and if you're a decent-looking female there's only one place to go if you want any testosterone in your life. The KGB knew years ago that when America finally fell, it would be the females of this country who would gladly do the deed. Make way for the universal caliphate, it's coming because the rest of the world won't put up with the worshipping at the altar of feminist insanity we have created here.
“Remember, newt’s playlist is all Abba stuff.”
I know he had a dancing queen ringtone and said he was really into the song dancing queen because of the movie mamma mia. I remember the thread, it’s pretty funny reading all those comments when Newt was a week into announcing he was running.
“Gingrich, who officially entered the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination last week, explained to media later that he is a big fan of the Meryl Streep movie “Mamma Mia” and a staffer had programmed the ringtone into his phone.
He said his wife, Callista, had warned him the ringtone might embarrass him one day, but he laughed it off.
“It’s just fun,” he said. “When they do ‘Dancing Queen’ in the movie, I just think it’s a great sequence. I love that sequence — the energy and the excitement.”
Gingrich also said he has a special ABBA ringtone for his wife, but declined to reveal what it is.”
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Freegards
A great rant!
But it remains that Romney is NOT taking the nomination without a battle.
Do not resort to surrender.
“Hurt”
Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho
Johnny Cash recorded this shortly before his death, making it all the more haunting and poignant. Inner turmoil, pain, regrets, repentance.
The man had a soul, unlike the candidate who would seek to vicariously benefit from it.
Could be. Neither Romney nor Democrat Propaganda Ministry drones are doing very well at passing for human, these days.
1st, the Soggy Bottom Boys are not a real band. It was recorded by the Union Station.
2nd, most music is about longing, questions, and bad relationships. I dont see how that has anything to do with being President. I remember the big fuss over Bush having Fortunate Son in his playlist, and the reporters questioned how he could like an anti-war song. This is a pretty silly article.
“I’m against Romney’s candidacy but this stuff is ridiculous.”
Agreed. Those are all good songs, the ones I know anyway.
‘[I] prefer Adam (the gay’s) Lambert’s “Ring of Fire.”
I’d like to hear that. He’s very good, he’s probably the most talented guy who was ever on Idol.
And Weird Al RULES!
Reznor said that after he heard Cash’s version that the song now belongs to Cash.
the best version ever I don't know about hopeless yearning, but this song is sublime when sung by an artist. Here's a version by the best singer who never made it big.
Jim Farber:Hey Jim what's yer problem bub? FYI "Crying' was picked by the uber left Rolling Stone(r) Mag as #69 of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."
A man of constant sorrow who roams this world alone, doomed to realize his greatest loves only in dreams. .. Believe it or not, that’s the inner life suggested by the songs Mitt Romney cherished enough to put on his Spotify playlist.
- "Roy Orbison’s uber-mopey “Crying”
- "...the Eagles’ ode to a shut-down loner “Desperado”."
- "The Soggy Bottom Boys’ version of that classic song of suffering “I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow.” "
And the Eagles “Desperado” isn't about any 'shut-down loner'. Per Song Facts Don Henley said, "When I play it and sing it, I think of Ray Charles - Ray Charles and Stephen Foster. It's really a Southern gothic thing." [The album had an Old West theme. It was inspired by The Dalton Gang, a notorious group of outlaws.]
As to 'The Soggy Bottom Boys' and “I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow.”, first off I can't STAND George Clooney and thought that movie was INSIPID (it's supposedly a modern take on Homer's Odyssey', riiiight). BUT!.. Jerkweed that song is just a catchy Bluegrass tune.
Every song one likes doesn't mean it has some deep inner meaning to it -- You Just Like It and that's all. Trying figuring out the meaning of 'I Am The Walrus' by the Beatles ya moron. In any case whatever Mittens likes on Spotify is irrelevant as any song any GOP Candidate likes is 10002 times BETTER than Obama's favorite song -- the Commie 'marching song' -- 'The Internationale'!!
Btw 'mr' Farber what are YOUR favorite songs? Bet it's stuff like; Bette Midler's Greatest Hits, anything by KD Lang, and old MGM Musicals by Busby Berkeley. Right Jim?
One last thing Jimbo, as to Spotify -- IMO they have a crappy selection of songs. I can't find any of my real favorites. So I'm stuck with picking the Artists only, like Buddy Guy and BB King.
“Remember, newt’s playlist is all Abba stuff.”
Ok, so Callista did his playlist.
I actually enjoyed NIN back in the nineties, and would even play Reznor’s original and Cash’s cover back to back whenever I was bombed in a bar, which was quite frequent at one point in my life. The one comes off more than a little nihilist, abandon all hope all ye who enter here, burn it all down. The other, well, it was real, all too real, and heartfelt. It was his swan song.
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