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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRichard Gere's character in Pretty Woman=Mittens
Just saw Lawrence O's interview with a casualty of Bain Capital's anti-job creation strategy in the 1990s. His story reminded me of Gere's corporate raider portrayal, pre-magical transformation by Julia Roberts' character.
Surely the DNC can make some hay with this.
Snarkoleptic
(6,002 posts)imho
CarmanK
(662 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)She has mentioned it many times, a la, Bain Capital
spooky3
(34,498 posts)mucifer
(23,576 posts)JI7
(89,279 posts)even i don't remember much about the Gere character other than him being her guy.
i think Romney himself just comes off as such a stereotypical wealthy phony jackass that just allowing people to see him is enough for people to see what he is.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)That mass unemployment was planned since the days of Reagan to put the working class in their place, so to speak.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Yeah.
spooky3
(34,498 posts)sce56
(4,828 posts)One of the things I could not believe as reasonable in that movie was a guy going down on a prostitute a real dirty gambler.
spooky3
(34,498 posts)you do when considering Mittens as President.
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Meg Whitman who, as you probably recall, tried to buy the governor's seat in Cali.
I just hope he goes out the same way. After spending a record chunk of his his own fortune.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)in the end Gere did the right thing.
Can't say the same about Romney.
spooky3
(34,498 posts)You'll see I referred to the pre-transformation version of the character, i.e., before she had the magical impact on him to cause him to become a better person,
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)he couldn't get a date unless he paid for one...
Raine
(30,541 posts)as Julia Roberts said about Richard Geer.