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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is your most basic, visceral gut feeling about Mitt Romney?
What emotion does he provoke in you? I'm curious, since I realized today that I had a different emotional response to each of the three main Republican primary candidates.
Newt Gingrich inspired hatred--every time the man spoke it made me want to kick him in the balls for being such a lying bastard. Rick Santorum disturbed me, mostly in that somebody that crazy could actually get people to vote for him.
But my most basic reaction to Mitt Romney is basically contempt. He knows nothing, stands for nothing, and thinks he's suited to the hardest job on the planet even though he hasn't the first clue about the real world.
What about the rest of you?
sadbear
(4,340 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)At least he is not as obviously stupid as the last republicans to run for and hold this office. But I wouldn't trust him to hold my wallet, let alone the future of this nation.
phylny
(8,380 posts)Raven
(13,890 posts)listen to...so I don't.
goclark
(30,404 posts)He has nothing worthwhile to say ever.
Seems to lack a care gene
elleng
(130,895 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)who is as phony as a three-dollar bill with Tricky Dick Nixon's picture on it.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)economic and environmental advisers are.
RKP5637
(67,107 posts)patricia92243
(12,595 posts)Marr
(20,317 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Bruce Wayne
(692 posts)Hate's toxic; it'll eat you up if you work up to hatred for every politician in the world whose views you happen to disagree with. It sounds like revelling in one's own intolerance. Practicing such reflexive intolerance not only makes you less happy as a human being, it also makes you a less effective citizen-activist.
dkf
(37,305 posts)I don't hate his policies because I don't know what they are (does he?), but something weird has happened to me on a gut level and yet I don't hate him. I think they call it oogie, but I don't know how to spell it.
Maybe its the hair oil. He needs to get rid of it.
Bruce Wayne
(692 posts)He's not repulsive like Gingrich or icky like O'Connel or smarmy like Bachmann. If you turn the sound off on them, they still project negative personas. If you turn the sound off on Romney, you have to count the gray hairs just to see whether he's being moderate or conservative
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Clowns like that are really a dime a dozen.
Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)Seeing him is like gazing into a bowl of vanilla pudding with some coconut sprinkles mixed in. I don't like it, I don't hate it. I don't give a damn either way. Now Bush Junior, on the other hand, made my bowels clench up tight and left me feeling disgusted and nauseous every time I saw him, so I don't know why Romney evokes such complete apathy in me.
PlanetBev
(4,104 posts)Empty suit...would melt down in a real crisis.
Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)robinlynne
(15,481 posts)kentuck
(111,089 posts)"Born on third base and thought he had hit a triple". Ann Richards
If there was a nationwide contest to see what person in America was most out of touch, he would win it hands down...
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)the kind that has all kinds of deep dark perverted secrets, a hatchet in the garage, and bodies buried under the gazebo in the backyard.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)MrYikes
(720 posts)and is not to be trusted or underestimated. Seeing him evokes determination.
indepat
(20,899 posts)(like we were some unloved and unwanted dog).
WeekendWarrior
(1,437 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)where is stands on a issue. Who wants a president that doesn't know how to make up his mind.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)marlakay
(11,457 posts)Kind of no feeling I don't hate the guy no anger at least yet sort of a non feeling like there isn't enough substance to the guy to have a feeling about him!
hlthe2b
(102,239 posts)both for his obvious belief that he is superior and entitled, but most definitely because I'd never trust him for a moment. (and I REALLY resent that he makes me agree with FREEPERS in that respect)
Newt: Nasty, nasty piece of work: I've despised him since he once represented the Atlanta area district in which I once lived.
Santorum; stupid, gullible, but dangerous. Yes, to think anyone would be swayed by this man, scares me a great deal
trof
(54,256 posts)His election (never happen) would be a boon for Big Biz and corporations.
Not so much for EPA and other 'regulators'.
I really don't know why he wants the job.
Ego, I guess.
That's what seems to drive most politicians.
More's the pity.
YellowRubberDuckie
(19,736 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)He still hasn't studied us well enough to pass for one.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)guitar man
(15,996 posts)That he is a client of the Hair Club For Men.
veganlush
(2,049 posts)PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)Probably anatomically similar anyway.
Whenever my sisters would play w/their Barbies, Ken never had anything of substance to say. Once in awhile he would show up to declare something like, "I'm hungry. What's for dinner?" The Barbies otoh, had elaborate roles with plots and subplots. Ken seemed to spend most of his time at some unknown place of work, or forgotten under a huge pile of Barbie wardrobe changes.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)vaberella
(24,634 posts)Tveil
(108 posts)Almost like he is just a SNL skit about a politician that changes his views every five minutes.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)Will say anything to close the deal.
He doesn't want the steak knives, he's going for the Cadillac.
nenagh
(1,925 posts)I don't seem to react to Romney as being human at all...
It seems to me that his many years at Bain Capital separated Romney from any care for his fellow Americans at all.
He comes across as unreal, missing essential parts
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)I get nothing from him. Not hatred, not contempt, not disgust. Just...nothing. I really see him as an empty box. I don't think he's intentionally an ass, I honestly think he doesn't understand humans. He's probably not even a bad guy...just...nothing.
He and his wife are the perfect Stepford couple.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)He is a dupe, but a smug self-serving, sanctimonious dupe.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)erinlough
(2,176 posts)Saphire
(2,437 posts)like Mitt Romney.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)like he doesn't feel anything below the shoulders
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Santorum is a nutcase creep.
Newtie is the pillsbury doughboy alter-ego creep.
They all creep me out.
Raine
(30,540 posts)that he has to have constant reassurance that he has more than anyone else.
ecstatic
(32,701 posts)The fakeness, awkwardness etc is just too much!
I view Gingrich with intrigue and amusement, just as I do Donald Trump.
I agree that Santorum is just disturbing.
jonthebru
(1,034 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,794 posts)Is creepy an emotion?
amandabeech
(9,893 posts)He has absolutely no compassion for humans or for humans' associates.
RIP Seamus. May you run and sit forever on the other side of the rainbow bridge.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)I don't trust anyone who belongs to a wacko cult religion, wears magic underwear and baptizes dead people.
Oh....and strapping Seamus to the car roof?? Fuck you Mittens and Fuck you Ann for allowing it.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)Bain Capital is essentially a legalized grand theft organization that lays off people, bankrupts corporations, and laughs all the way to the bank - they are the dirtiest of dealers.
SDjack
(1,448 posts)through buying and selling us. That continued, accelerated approach will not cure America's problems.
sinkingfeeling
(51,454 posts)GentryDixon
(2,949 posts)It is part of their prophecy.
siligut
(12,272 posts)It has been posted here. DUers just don't seem to realize the importance of it in Mitt's candidacy.
GentryDixon
(2,949 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)The freaking Church. Of course!
Man...I wish we had DU search so I could find the posts.
Well...off to Google....
Thanks!
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)H2O Man
(73,537 posts)He makes plastic look authentic.
FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)He tries WAY too hard to be "one of the guys", when he knows he's out of touch with the people whose hands he shakes on the campaign trail, and those are GOP'ers who are themselves out of touch.
Just about all of his gaffes come from that insecurity. It's troubling to think of a person with that kind of hidden inferiority complex would do with the power of the Presidency.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)It will be a DUZY
TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)It would be funny if it weren't real.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)-- Gov Ann Richards mixing metaphors at the 1988 Democratic Convention.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)The Romneys are probably richer than the Bushes.
jillan
(39,451 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)bluestate10
(10,942 posts)He has lived a life where he used his born advantages to sacrifice the less fortunate. Romney chose to make maximum profit for himself and a select few when he could have instead chosen to truly build companies that built in america and hired americans. Yet Romney outsourced jobs to massively enrich himself. Romney failed the true test of character, doing what is right when one can chose not to.
gulliver
(13,180 posts)Same, exact plan for the country and economy. Same daddy's boy who had his whole life handed to him, but, like Bush, thinks of himself as "successful."
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Many years ago, Hunter Thompson published an "apology" to Richard Nixon in which he said that, so far as he knew, Richard Nixon didn't fuck pigs or sell used cars with cracked blocks, nor was he corrupt beyond the ability of modern man to describe it.
Romney, on the other hand, probably is that bad. This is a man who is believed to owe over $3 million this year in federal income tax on passive income. Which means, if he wasn't tied up in all sorts of tax shelters, he probably really owes $6 million.
They sell a product at Home Depot. It is a green gelatinous mass made to seal lawn tractor tires so the air doesn't run out of them when you hit rocks. When I worked there it was called Slime. It is now called Romney.
Demonaut
(8,914 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Untrustworthy snake that's looking at us like we're all little mice.
deacon
(5,967 posts)pipoman
(16,038 posts)lutefisk
(3,974 posts)Not sure if it has the singular visual impact you are looking for, though....
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)Out of touch as McShame, smarmy as Cantor, dumb as Palin, gives less of a fuck than Dubya, greedier than Ryan, dishonest as Atwater, snobby as Poppy but more phony than any of them and by a lot with no integrity even within his own shitty context.
He has to be the least trustworthy piece of shit ever shat.
I can't believe he doesn't give more the willies something awful.
I want no golem running anything. Nothing "safe" about a puppet with a compass on whatthefuckever combined with mo money, mo money mo as the prime directive, to my mind.
Plus, since he can at least put on an appearance of not being any particular flavor of fucking loon or obviously stupid as a rock (unless forced to freestyle too much or a lot of exposure), which allows even more time before the crowd gets we are getting fucked over and lied to.
EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)He wants the office desperately. He's the physical embodiment of corporate personhood.
Obama is the only thing standing between what was started with Reagan and left unfinished
by bush.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)MineralMan
(146,288 posts)Obama will destroy him in the debates. That's one thing of which I'm certain. Romney will probably destroy himself everywhere else.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)For me that's a problem ... the "nothingness"
roamer65
(36,745 posts)varelse
(4,062 posts)I know it's a mistake to write him off as a serious danger to our nation (and the world) but all I feel when I am reminded of his existence is "meh".
In my mind, he's "Meh" Romney.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)He's so phony that I keep imagining that he's a lizard-man wearing a human mask.
dkf
(37,305 posts)Smarmy unbelievable say anything con job.
opihimoimoi
(52,426 posts)Autumn
(45,066 posts)Mitt Romney, I would have to go with the rattlesnake. I would just trust the snake more than him.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)He's so very, very slimey.
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)I have to hit the mute button every time he comes on. The same goes for his nasty-ass wife.
adigal
(7,581 posts)and will do and say anything to be cool. Throw in out of touch because he has something wrong with him that he just cannot read or learn social cues, and you have him.
I wonder about Aspergers? Lots of smart people have it, a mild case, they can't relate to others that well, or read social cues, or learn what not to say to others. The man has had over 6 years to prepare to run for President, and I am always astounded at the stupid, insensitive things he says!! Maybe his wifey-poo has a touch, also.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)4 t 4
(2,407 posts)hide his own easter egg!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)But what is even more revealing is the look Republicans get on their faces when they realize he's likely to be their candidate. They all get this vaguely pained, constipated look on their faces that suggests they don't enough fiber in their diets.