Mitt Romney: The Man Without a Soul

[RyanPsych]

Mitt Romney should be doing a walk of shame today, after reversing most of his irresponsible, hawkish foreign policy statements from the last year just to have a hot night with undecided female voters in the final debate. How does he live with himself?

But I’m having a hard time watching television coverage of Romney’s debate performance the morning after. The conventional wisdom seems to be that while President Obama won the debate, Romney’s “prevent defense” at least kept him in the race – and it was the politically wise course. Of course, Obama’s “prevent defense” two weeks ago in Denver was a debacle that changed everything. I’m not sure why Romney’s turn at it is supposed to be smarter politics.

Beyond scoring the debate on style points, though, why aren’t more people horrified by Romney’s capacity to disavow virtually everything he’s said on foreign policy and cuddle up with Obama, in order to seem less frightening to voters? On Afghanistan, on Iran, on abandoning Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, on killing Osama bin Laden, on Syria, on drones, Romney mostly said “me too” to Obama’s policies. And it’s not as though the debate merely gave Romney the space to explain foreign policy positions that may have been misinterpreted. After a year spent attacking Obama’s “weakness” globally and promising to be hawkish, he was, at times, the dove, insisting more than once “We can’t kill our way out of this.” And when he wasn’t echoing Obama, he sounded like a schoolboy reciting what he just learned in world geography class.

I found it chilling. Once again I thought to myself: Who is this guy who’s trying to imitate a cautious, sober global statesman (albeit one who sweats a lot)? I just watched Doris Kearns Goodwin on “Morning Joe” say Romney did the right thing because his goal was not to scare anybody and lose the momentum he gained from Debate 1, and everyone seemed to agree. But in what new realm of cynicism is it the right thing to hide your real policies in order to become president?

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[Evergreen Emerald]

1. He is a fraud

He is lying about his intentions to win....why does not msm call him on it?

[RyanPsych]

2. False Equivalencies

The MSM is so intent on maintaining their image of objectivity, however in order to maintain the image of objectivity and integrity, they are sacrificing intergrity and objectivity

[OSPREYXIV]

3. New polls show vampires and zombies voting for Romney by a wide margin.

Ever been totally shocked, scared out of your wits or caught completely off-guard? Chilling is right. Excellent choice of words. "Your blood runs cold"
isn't a figure of speech, that's literally the way it makes you feel. "President Romney" is a phrase that terrifies me. It should scare anyone who has a brain, who has a heart, who has a soul. What's going on?

This diagnosis may not win the hearts and minds of the incurably optimistic but might demystify the situation.

Corporations are people?Lie. "What's good for business is good for America?" Lie. Bank fraud is acceptable? Lie. Get my drift? Bullshit is piled up so high we face an avalanche. It's reached critical mass, could explodespontaneously at any time. Pop entertainment themes about zombies and vampirism sells cars toothpaste but it resonates at deeper levels. Producers and admen might brush it off but there's a subliminal message we need to consider. We're scared about what is going on. We ought to be. Corporate zombies and vampire bankers? Sounds right to me. It's
scary. We're feeling anger, fear, helpless terror.
Seens like nothing can be done. Television has
diverted our genuine emotions w. displacement that shifts our attention towards childish fantasy so that the emotions that ought to be aimed at corporate con men. criminals and a complicit Congress becomes harmless. It is a fact that most of the people elect to Congress are getting rich while in office through connections, sweetheart deals and deception. It's like having our blood drained anf they're getting away with it. Romney is just the final indignity. Corporate zombies are scary but we have to understand that Romney's not the disease, he's the symptom.
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