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Title: The Romnambulist
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URL Source: http://takimag.com/article/the_romnambulist_jim_goad#axzz1yBlIH2OC
Published: Jun 18, 2012
Author: Jim Goad
Post Date: 2012-06-18 19:36:42 by Ada
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Views: 256
Comments: 15

After winning a war of attrition in the primaries, Mitt Romney is the presumptive Republican nominee for president. He is also a presumptive human being.

Whereas questions still linger as to whether Barack Obama was born an American citizen, I have doubts as to whether Romney was born a member of the human race.

Whereas Obama is thought to be cool, Romney is widely perceived as cold. He is so utterly bloodless, wooden, and flavorless, he makes the robot from Lost in Space seem like Pagliacci. A tree stump has more personality than he does. Even a square has sharp edges, while his are softly rounded. The only remotely magical thing about him is his Mormon underwear. No, I take that back—he’s a miracle worker in that he makes Bob Dole and Michael Dukakis seem absolutely thrilling.

For the past half-year, I’ve tried to ignore him, deliberately slaloming my consciousness around every mention of him. But from now until November, he will be impossible to avoid, and I’m bracing myself for Neocon Water Torture. Constantly hearing about Romney will feel like being locked into a small, dark room and forced to listen to the sound of snoring as it’s blasted from wall-to-wall Marshall amps. “His critics insist there is evil lurking behind his plastic mask. I suspect there’s nothing behind it at all.”

Based on the nonstop squalling of the bespectacled and slump-shouldered progressive jellyfish who hate him, I suppose I should like him through the time-tested equation of “the person who irritates the people who irritate me is my friend,” but I can’t even manage a pearl-sized toothpaste squib of positive feeling toward him. The Obamabots depict him as a hateful, rapacious, bloodthirsty, peasant-squashing monster, which errs in making him sound far more exciting than he is. Painting him as “extreme” may backfire, because it implies he actually has a pulse. I find it impossible to summon strong feelings, whether positive or negative, for the ice sculpture that is Mitt Romney. His critics insist there is evil lurking behind his plastic mask. I suspect there’s nothing behind it at all.

You want out of touch? This is a man who tries appealing to a sidewalk full of young Florida blacks by quoting “Who Let the Dogs Out?” He panders to white voters in the Deep South by calling them “y’all” and saying he had “a biscuit and some cheesy grits” for breakfast. (They’re called cheese grits, you cheesy dork.) And he probably just lost the state of Pennsylvania by first referring to a hoagie as a “sub.”

Critics on both sides of the eternally tedious left-right continuum accuse him of having no “core,” of being an incurable “flip-flopper,” and of placing expediency before principles. I’m not sure whether that’s true, and I don’t know whether it even matters. Even if he’s full of shit, it’s plastic shit manufactured by Chinese slave labor. But rather than being a Machiavellian politician, he may merely be a politically naïve pragmatist. He claims to have “an enormous respect for data, analysis, and debate” and has said that “There are answers in numbers—gold in numbers. Pile the budgets on my desk and let me wallow.”

As someone who respects math and logic more than ideology and emotion, I don’t think it’s necessarily bad to appoint a cold-blooded technocrat to steer this sinking ship. I think many of our current problems are due less to cold-bloodedness than to a half-assed, dim-witted, and misguided sense of compassion. The main problem is that human beings are still in a retarded phase of evolution where emotion continues to trump logic. Most people are more comfortable being herd animals than individuals. They crave leadership more than ability. They favor personality over pragmatism. If given a choice between Buddy Love and the Nutty Professor, they’d choose Buddy Love every time. This does not bode well for Romney.

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#2. To: Ada (#0)

I think many of our current problems are due less to cold-bloodedness than to a half-assed, dim-witted, and misguided sense of compassion.

Wrong, dumbass.

Cynicom  posted on  2012-06-18   20:02:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Cynicom (#2)

Wrong, dumbass.

Yeah, that is dumbass wrong. Our problems are the work of the cold-blooded and (literally) heartless bastards like Cheney and his ilk. They herd and prod and push around the half-assed, the dim-witted, the misguided and the compassionate like so many pitiful cattle.

randge  posted on  2012-06-18   20:28:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: randge (#3)

and misguided sense of compassion.

This government has never been..."MISGUIDED"... during my lifetime.

Cynicom  posted on  2012-06-18   20:39:14 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Cynicom (#5) (Edited)

This government has never been..."MISGUIDED"... during my lifetime.

No, but it uses the miguided like a rented mule. That includes all the nice, well-mannered Christians in their Sunday pews as well as the New Agers at Yoga class. They're all of a piece and lap up what's dished out to them like it was Gospel. Folks are wont to cluck here about the "good Germans" as a model of what it is to be at once the deceived and the complicit, and folks here have another thing coming.

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#9. To: randge (#7)

As long as I can remember this "government" has been hell bent on oblivion.

Guided all the way by its owners and operators.

Where is a good military coup when they are needed?

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