Romney's Real Cult: The Cult Of Crippled Personality

-by Noah

By now, we all know that not even John McCain or John Kerry could flip-flop like Mitt Romney. Flip-flopping habitually like Romney does, just means that there’s no there there. The man has no foundation. His ability to so glibly lie and lack conviction just to fit in, as well as his lack of basic social interaction skill appears pathological. Something in the Romneybot mind is malformed. He comes off as Romney the Robot because he must have skipped the programming day. The little switch on childhood Mitt’s mind never got turned on.

This is even worse than Nixon, who once filled a moment of awkward silence with interviewer David Frost by suddenly asking how his weekend went and did he “do any fornicating?” Just trying to be one of the boys. What happens when/if Romney has to sit down with Netanyahu? Will it be “I like bagels. I often eat them when I drink Manischewitz?"

To say the least, Romenybot’s “I was for birth control before I was against it” moment was not a shining one. But, the hits just keep on comin’. Romney is a pathetic, awkward campaigner, kept afloat only by tsunamis of Republican bigwig cash. He is a man who is encumbered with a crippled personality. His hair may be perfect but he is truly a shallow, mindless mannequin meant for a store window, not a big white house.

Personality evolves as we grow up. It’s shaped by our experiences and environment, but, if you’ve been a bubble boy all your life… Our personalities evolve because they have to or we can’t function well with others, or at least get the things we need to survive. In the case of Romney, he appears to have an arrested personality and has gotten by with just throwing money at his problems and being arrogant. It takes a real dodo to outspend the likes of Rick Santorum 8 to 1 just to play him to a tie. I saw a graphic on The Ed Show Friday that showed how Romney has spent about $17.50 for each vote he has received while Santorum is spending about $2.50 per vote. We may not like Santorum’s personality but at least he has one (and lots of his fellow crazy people like it).

Romney is a natural for the nasty, vicious, biting corporate world. Cover your inner reptile with a suit, mold your hair and mold your smile and on you go. You have no need for empathy for others. That would only get in the way of your bull in a china shop approach to life. Sociopathy rules. Maybe a comparison to the strike first-don’t even bother to ask questions later approach of a rattlesnake or and alligator is more apt. Is this what we want running our foreign policy let alone our economy?

We can see this lack of empathy in the way Romney reluctantly addresses crowds, lamely trying to ingratiate himself. Most politicians can at least somewhat adapt to the differences in the crowds they address; not Romney. He goes to NASCAR and immediately puts down the “cheap” windbreakers those in the crowd are wearing while he boorishly brags that he knows the various uber-wealthy NASCAR team owners. He goes to Michigan, one of his many “home states” and, in explaining what he likes about the place, can’t even do as well as a fifth grader writing a little essay for the teacher. He gropes. He grasps, and comes up with “I like the trees” and “the trees are the right height,” and “I like cars.” Romney tries but he lacks the needed personality and even basic social skills. He exhibits a frightening inability to connect with others. He lacks the kind of kind of basic communication smarts that all mammals have.
 
Instead, Romney has that reptile thing. Funny how he says he likes cars and likes NASCAR, but, NASCAR uses American cars. If Romney had had his way, the American car industry would essentially no longer exist, and, by extension, neither would NASCAR. Then again, maybe his vision thing just sees a future NASCAR of painted up, logo-encrusted Saabs and Volvos or some Chinese car.
 
What would Romney be like if he went to Mississippi and addressed a Klan rally? “I like sheets.” “I like when you can form them into pointy hats.” “I like the little shoulder patches.” “Wizards are neat.“ Everyone thinks Wizards are neat.” Those “Harry Potter movies are very popular.” “I want to be to.” “Nothing lights up the night sky like a burning cross.” “Thank you.” “Wizards are people my friend.” “The Grander, the better.”
 
When Romney is old and senile, he will one day stand in front of a herd of cattle about to be slaughtered, extolling the virtues of being a vegetarian. Actually, it wouldn’t shock me if he did it next week. Oh, and we’d be the cattle.



UPDATE: And Don't Forget...

Wednesday (March 14), the New York Metropolitan Area will be welcoming Mr. 1%-- and in his own element, no less! Willard will hoist a megabucks fundraiser for his anti-grassroots campaign with the world's richest, most toxic and most criminal hedge fund managers and Wall Street banksters. It's a public event and Sunday night the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly voted unanimously to... be part of the welcoming committee. They even have a swell Facebook page up already.