Thread: Romney=prep school loser bully

And it probably doesn't fucking matter. Haven't followed it closely, but I guess he harassed some gay kid, held him down and cut his hair? I would say that that is borderline worth being concerned about, but unless there's worse or he did it after high school why should we give a shit? I never did anything like that in HS, but I did some pretty stupid shit that I probably wouldn't want people knowing about now.

So, only an outside chance anyone should be too concerned with this.

Guy's still a complete tool/political whore who can't win, but this 'issue' isn't an issue.

Did your hair grow back yet?

Very few votes are going to be cast on the basis of what Mitt Romney did or didn’t do to John Lauber in 1965. So that, per se, isn’t Romney’s problem. But this is: The story lands as another brick on pile of evidence amassing that he’s just a disagreeable human being. A few days ago I wrote about Barack Obama’s biggest problem, which is that despite all the many areas in which Americans rate him higher than Romney, the one on which they give Romney the edge happens to be pretty important: handling the economy. Now we get to Romney’s biggest problem. The likability factor. He ain’t got it. And he ain’t got much of a way to get it.
Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney

Historical question: When is the last time the clearly less likeable candidate beat the clearly more likeable one for the White House? The answer is, a long time. I put the question to Gallup, which didn’t have historical numbers at hand. But doing some noodling around on my own suggests that you have to go back to 1968 to find such a result.

In 2004, George W. Bush generally led the likeable category. Pew emailed me some numbers—they had Bush leading John Kerry on likeability by 47 to 36 percent in September 2004. Interestingly, Kerry caught up and even went ahead after the first debate. But even so, voters judged both very likeable—70 percent for Kerry, and 65 percent for Bush. In 2000, Bush usually topped Al Gore, but not by massive margins. An October 2000 poll gave Bush an 11-point margin. Pew had a nine-point margin for Bush around the same time.

It’s okay to have a gajillion dollars if you’re Bill Gates or Steve Jobs and have made everyone’s lives more interesting and cooler. But Romney? He helped give us Domino’s Pizza.

Before then, numbers get a little harder to come by. But crusty old Bob Dole was surely not considered more likeable than Bill Clinton in 1996. The 1992 Clinton-George H.W. Bush matchup was probably close. But just think back over the elections. The “wooden” Michael Dukakis in 1988 wasn’t exactly radiating intense bonhomie. Ronald Reagan was extremely likeable on a personal level to most people. Jimmy Carter had that big smile in 1976. Et cetera. As I say, I would imagine that it’s 1968, when the surly Dick beat the Happy Warrior, although by just a half million votes out of more than 70 million cast. But even Nixon was probably not clearly less likeable than Humphrey. After all, he’d been the vice president, he’d been on the national stage for nearly 20 years; the man definitely had his backers.

Romney, though? This is the biggest washout of modern times, folks. Gallup just this week put the likeability ratings at Obama 60, Romney 31. It’s not that Obama’s number is unusually high. Look back at those Kerry-Bush numbers. Americans are an open-hearted lot, at least presumptively, so they want to like the guy who’s going be the president. But they Do. Not. Like. Mitt. Romney.

It would be more interesting for all of us if there were some great mystery here, but there isn’t. He reeks of privilege. Every time he says something off the cuff he says something obnoxious. Corporations are people, pal. I like firing people. Where on earth did you get those Godforsaken cookies?

He also—and this actually is interesting, because it’s something our normal public discourse does not like to admit or allow for—is way too rich. We’re constantly told that Americans don’t have any class envy, and compared to some European nations they don’t. But even Americans have limits. A few million, even $50 million; okay. But a quarter billion dollars? A house with an elevator . . . for the cars? It also matters to people how the money was made. It’s okay to be worth a gajillion dollars if you’re Bill Gates or Steve Jobs and have made everyone’s lives more interesting and cooler. But what’s Mitt Romney done? Helped give us Domino’s Pizza.

Even so, Romney might still pass muster, but he has no grasp of the one crucial reality of class in America: you can be filthy rich as long as you don’t look or act like it. Gates doesn’t comb his hair, much. Jobs wore sneakers. Romney just looks too pressed. Even when he’s wearing those jeans. You can look at Romney on television and practically sense how he smells—of costly ablutions whose brand names the rest of us probably don’t even know. And he acts relentlessly rich.

And this brings us back to the Cranbrook School incident. We might have learned from The Washington Post this week that Romney gallantly interceded on poor Lauber’s behalf. Or even, maybe, that he did the awful deed, but a few years later he got in touch with Lauber to say, “Gee, old scout, went a bit overboard there.” Or even that he acknowledged to one of his confederates that he regretted the incident. In other words, we might have learned something that showed he knows he behaved like an asshole. But all we learned is that he behaved like an asshole and is now pretending to forget it. A jerk is one thing. But a jerk who takes no responsibility for his jerkitude is pretty much the definition of an unlikeable person.

No human being is one dimensional. I’m sure there are plenty of people in the world for whom Mitt has performed kindnesses. I expect we’ll be getting to know every single one of them in these next few months, too, in heavily filtered television ads in which the men wear proletarian flannel and the women’s St. John blazers are kept safely in the closet. All I can say is they’d better be more likeable than their candidate—for his sake. In the meantime, there’s something very reassuring about this country reposing in those numbers, that the black guy with the weird name who’s been called everything under the sun is twice as likeable as the rich white guy. This is the America that drives the wingers crazy, but that the rest of us—the majority—live in, and love.

Sorry I neglected to provide a link.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...candidate.html

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...The-REAL-Bully

You are such a blind partisan that you are a cartoon of a partisan. Get a brain you brainwashed loser.

I'm sorry did you write something anyone would ever give a fuck about?

Originally Posted by Bunion

But Romney? He helped give us Domino’s Pizza.

I bet he created more jobs for the 99% than Obama ever has.

Originally Posted by systemoverblow'd

I bet he created more jobs for the 99% than Obama ever has.

I wouldn't take that bet but a lot depends on how you score job creation. However I didn't write that sentence, credit for that entire article goes to the author, (see linky thingy)


In fact until DBT and others brought this subject up I haven't given a shit about it either. Romney will lose because the majority of Americans don't identify with him, he may be able to change that between now and November but he keeps saying and doing all manner of stupid shit.

What is even more astonishing is how some Christian Fundamentalists are now willing to overlook the whole Mormon thing in spite of their previous statements that Mormonism is a cult. I can't wait to see if they lose their shit over this and split down the middle. The next 6 months will be entertaining to say the least.

The best part will be the ever increasing desperation/hysteria of DBT.

Originally Posted by systemoverblow'd

I bet he created more jobs for the 99% than Obama ever has.

Otherwise known as povertunities...

Originally Posted by Bunion

I wouldn't take that bet but a lot depends on how you score job creation. However I didn't write that sentence, credit for that entire article goes to the author, (see linky thingy)


In fact until DBT and others brought this subject up I haven't given a shit about it either. Romney will lose because the majority of Americans don't identify with him, he may be able to change that between now and November but he keeps saying and doing all manner of stupid shit.

What is even more astonishing is how some Christian Fundamentalists are now willing to overlook the whole Mormon thing in spite of their previous statements that Mormonism is a cult. I can't wait to see if they lose their shit over this and split down the middle. The next 6 months will be entertaining to say the least.

The best part will be the ever increasing desperation/hysteria of DBT.

BWWWAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

The majority of American's identify with Obama????????

He only won the first time because of white guilt and political correctness.

The majority of American's don't identify with community organizing, black liberation theologist, statist, racist thugs.

Originally Posted by splat

Otherwise known as povertunities...

POTD!

Originally Posted by Downbound Train

BWWWAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

The majority of American's identify with Obama????????

He only won the first time because of white guilt and political correctness.

The majority of American's don't identify with community organizing, black liberation theologist, statist, racist thugs.

And yet again DBT the ultimate homer equates one thing with another thing that is entirely different.


Please quote for me the name Obama or where I stated that Americans identify with Obama in that post.

Waiting..................

Originally Posted by systemoverblow'd

I bet he created more jobs for the 99% than Obama ever has.

So we should blame Mitt for B11, Benny, Rontele and the rest of the TGR pizza delivery crew?

Originally Posted by Hugh Conway

So we should blame Mitt for B11, Benny, Rontele and the rest of the TGR pizza delivery crew?

Hey, skibums need jobs too!

Why doesn't Dex post as Jer(k) anymore?

His Jer(k) posts blew his Dexter Rutecki drivel posts out of the water.

Dex refuses to answer this important question or even respond to my PMs asking for Jer(k)'s password so I can ressurrect this classic charactor.

What do you chaps think? Why won't Dex talk about Jer(k)?


Also - why does Bunion rim-job every thread that Dex posts in? Is Bunion actually Dex's retard libsheep wife?

Originally Posted by Jer

Why doesn't Dex post as Jer(k) anymore?

His Jer(k) posts blew his Dexter Rutecki drivel posts out of the water.

Dex refuses to answer this important question or even respond to my PMs asking for Jer(k)'s password so I can ressurrect this classic charactor.

What do you chaps think? Why won't Dex talk about Jer(k)?


Also - why does Bunion rim-job every thread that Dex posts in? Is Bunion actually Dex's retard libsheep wife?

Just hook up the next best thing...
username: blurredsalias
password: password

Originally Posted by systemoverblow'd

Just hook up the next best thing...
username: blurredsalias
password: password

You know the second I do that I get banned for life by He Who Shall Not Be Named (Splat) for using a shared alias. He's probably got his hand on the drool-dreanched ban hammer right now, just waiting.

It in and of it's self doesn't matter, but his response does. "I don't remember." Bullshit, if he were a true leader he would own up to it, admit it was a stupid high thing to do and move on. Not that Obummer is perfect, but at least he owned up to drug use, etc.

Romney sounds more like a whiner all the time. There was a time when I gave a thought to voting forhim, but he is doing a good job convincing me otherwise.

Showing up and sucking cock at Liberty U. Is also sad.

Mitt's hijinks part II

Originally Posted by Bunion

And yet again DBT the ultimate homer equates one thing with another thing that is entirely different.


Please quote for me the name Obama or where I stated that Americans identify with Obama in that post.

Waiting..................

You said the reason Romney can't win is that American's can't identify with him. That implies that the winner will be someone American's CAN identify with. Thus my response....

Get a brain.

Originally Posted by hutash

It in and of it's self doesn't matter, but his response does. "I don't remember." Bullshit, if he were a true leader he would own up to it, admit it was a stupid high thing to do and move on. Not that Obummer is perfect, but at least he owned up to drug use, etc.

Romney sounds more like a whiner all the time. There was a time when I gave a thought to voting forhim, but he is doing a good job convincing me otherwise.

Showing up and sucking cock at Liberty U. Is also sad.

True on all of that, and based on what I've now read (from others involved/witnesses) Romney's claim to not remember seems impossible. But I still can't fault him too much for being a dick in HS--and it seemed he had moved away from claiming not to remember.

Problem, of course, is what he is today. I guess my point was that there are plenty of reasons to question the guy's fitness for office, and this isn't one of the better ones.

Originally Posted by Dexter Rutecki

Problem, of course, is what he is today. I guess my point was that there are plenty of reasons to question the guy's fitness for office, and this isn't one of the better ones.

True, but it is just a tiny glimpse into his character. Certainly not something I would base a decision on. There are plenty of other things that have turned me off against him.

Originally Posted by Downbound Train

You said the reason Romney can't win is that American's can't identify with him. That implies that the winner will be someone American's CAN identify with. Thus my response....

Get a brain.

That implies nothing of the sort. You ASSUMED that was what I meant, it wasn't and once again you made an ASS out of yourself.

Originally Posted by Bunion

That implies nothing of the sort. You ASSUMED that was what I meant, it wasn't and once again you made an ASS out of yourself.

OK, here's you quote...

"Romney will lose because the majority of Americans don't identify with him"

So, what did you mean by that?

Someone HAS to win. And that winner HAS to be someone American's can identify with more than Romney. Otherwise, you are saying someone equally or less relateable than Romney could win. And if that's the case, your argument about Romneys relatability costing him the election is wrong by definition.

I assumed nothing....Get a brain.

Originally Posted by Jer

Why doesn't Dex post as Jer(k) anymore?

Dex,

Please post as Jer(k) again.

So he'll shut the fuck up calling you out about it.

Thanks

Originally Posted by Downbound Train

OK, here's you quote...

"Romney will lose because the majority of Americans don't identify with him"

So, what did you mean by that?

Exactly what those words say, nothing more, nothing less.

Someone HAS to win. And that winner HAS to be someone American's can identify with more than Romney. Otherwise, you are saying someone equally or less relateable than Romney could win. And if that's the case, your argument about Romneys relatability costing him the election is wrong by definition.

I assumed nothing....Get a brain.

Really? What of it, I am now solidly on board the Libertarian train.

Gary Johnson 2012.... already sent my 50 bucks. May send more. Meanwhile....

Don't get a brain, stay the same uninformed, hyper-partisan, GOP worshiping, hack fucknozzle you have always been.

Oh and go Fuck Yourself....