Our joking about Romney being inhuman has a kernel of truth. Romney is a psychopath.

For the past few months, I and others have been joking about Romney being not entirely human. Mark Hamill said that Romney was like The Thing - he can only imitate human behavior, but he's not actually human himself. I've jokingly suggested that Mitt was an Agent from the Matrix, a Cylon, a Replicant from Blade Runner, a Visitor from the V television series (a reptile wearing a human mask, who can unhinge his jaw and swallow live rats whole.)

But let's admit it. There's a little bit of truth that is in there with the silliness. Romney's behavior is "a little bit off."

In fact, I'd say the way he's off falls into a fairly well known pattern - that of the classic psychopath. He doesn't just have a hard time relating with other people, but he doesn't feel empathy or conscience towards other human beings at all - he's in many ways like an alien in human skin. Essentially he's a member of what I would call the subspecies Homo sapiens psychopathicus - a subspecies of humanity that has evolved as a predator of other humans.

He's like Hannibal Lector - though instead of eating people's livers (with fava beans and a nice chianti), he eats people's jobs, livelihoods and bank accounts. His method of predation is conducted with a fountain pen - see Bain Capital.

What am I talking about? Well, let's go through the list, as I found it here: http://www.daniweb.com/community-center/geeks-lounge/threads/78319/hare-psychopathy-checklist#



The way Hare does the scoring, for each of the 20 characteristics, he gives a value of 0 if the characteristic does not apply at all, a 1 if it applies somewhat, and a 2 if it applies strongly.

In my own Fristing of Mitt Romney, I give him a 30 on the Hare checklist, out of a maximum possible score of 40, putting him squarely in psychopath territory. If Romney becomes President, the result could be something out of a horror movie...

Go ahead and criticize me for "Fristing" Romney, but I do believe that character is at the core of what we should be evaluating in who we would have be our leaders. It's more important than issues, as a man of good character will come to the right side, or at least an understandable side on the issues. Romney's not like that. He is not a man of good moral character. He is a psychopath. He's not on our side, he feels absolutely zero obligation to lift a finger for us, his prey. His positions on the issues will be those that solely benefit himself, at our expense.

In a nutshell, Mitt Romney is just plain fucking evil.

We've already had to endure eight years of a psychopath in the White House. I don't think our country could endure another psychopathic president.