Wednesday, December 28, 2011

OH MY! CHARLES PIERCE ON MITT ROMNEY

From The Politics Blog at Esquire:
Comes now this pure piece of manufactured product, this vacant replicant of American plutocracy, to lecture a country in the middle of a fragile recovery from an economic disaster brought on by the other soulless replicants on the topics of our vanishing work ethic, and the great moral cleansing power of onrushing poverty. And, because he cares less about the country he's planning to lead than he does about the next nickel he can squeeze out of it, he's doing so with rhetoric that owes more to George Wallace than it does to George Romney, who was a decent Republican in the days before greasy-beaked vultures like his spalpeen hijacked the party. (Which is pretty much what E.J. Dionne was saying recently.) Willard is working the old poor-people-are-robbing-you-blind melodeon again while his real targets are anyone who receives any kind of federal government assistance of any kind whatsoever. And don't fall for the old "states do it better" dodge. Willard knows full good and well that the states can't carry this kind of load, either, and that the costs will just get passed down to lower and lower levels of government until nobody can pay for anything, and the programs that he'd like to see eliminated because it will help him get elected simply disappear.
Charles Pierce always writes with intelligence, knowledgeability, and, quite often, irony that bites, but the piece is one of his best.

Read the entire article here.

Romney is so smooth looking, so well-coiffed and well-tailored, that he doesn't look real. Just look at his shining eyes in the picture. Does Romney look like a man who would ride his dog on the roof of the car on a family vacation?
According to a 2007 Boston Globe profile of the candidate, Romney’s oldest son, Tagg, yelled, “Gross!” as he noticed a brown liquid flowing down the back window from the Irish Setter Seamus, who had been riding on car’s roof for hours.

“As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station,” the Globe noted. “There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back onto the highway. It was a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management.”
When the Wall Street Journal questioned him about the incident, Romney said:
“Uh…,” Romney said, clearly caught off guard by the question. “Love my dog.”

“That’s all I’ve got for ya,” he added.
I've never forgotten the story of Seamus riding on top of the car. Perhaps Seamus could do without Mitt's version of doggie love.

11 comments:

  1. I learned a new word today....spalpeen. Thanks, Mimi!
    amyj

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  2. Romney later said his dog was getting fresh air on the trip, and he can't understand why anyone would be opposed to that.

    You can't make this stuff up....

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  3. amyj, spalpeen is a new word for me, too. I had to look it up.

    Fresh air at 70 miles per hour on top of the car? That's a lot of air.

    Romney reminds me of a Ken doll.

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  4. I would rather vote for Seamus.

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  5. Hell, Cathy, I'd rather vote for George, and he's been dead some 16 years now.

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  6. Don't you just know that, in a "President Romney America" {shudder}, it's We the 99% who'll be left shitting in terror on top of the car?

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  7. Looking at him, and whenever he opens his mouth, he so reminds me of a second-stringer in an Andy Hardy movie. Bearing in mind his upbringing, this makes perfect sense. Quaintly "Golly Gee Willikers"-ish, but not, perhaps, what the times call for. Goes a log way to explain his being the front-runner among Republican "moderates", tho'.

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  8. He's Gordon Gekko running for office.

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  9. If Seamus throws his hat in the ring, I will throw him a bone, or two, or three.

    JCF, what an image! What an odor! All 99% of us?

    Lapin, I suppose Mitt reminds some folks of those better, ideal past times of Andy Hardy life.

    And don't we show our age? I can see the thought balloons of young people and even Gen Xers, 'Who the hell is Andy Hardy?'...that is if any of those generations read this blog.


    Counterlight, Gordon Gekko with a modest demeanor and a smile, which makes him even more terrifying.

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  10. Few people with cable access to The Movie Channel cannot know who Andy Hardy is/was. I know only because of it, though I never watch it - as I also know & never watch, the Kardashians.

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  11. I did not know who the Kardashians were. I had to look them up when they made the news for their short-lived wedded bliss.

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