Let’s just stop pretending that every time Mitt Romney opens his mouth and makes a smug comment extolling his exceeding wealth, thereby negating any moral virtue, that he’s making some sort of gaffe or has succumbed to poor word choice. No. This man is a rich bastard who thinks like one and there’s nothing he can do to hide it.
No, he isn’t hiding behind some flowery words chosen carefully for their all around palatability. He isn’t trying to impress you with an often trotted out, and never fully believed, “One Of The People” shtick. He makes $10,000 bets! He preens about firing people! His tax rate is lower than most Americans’! Time and again Mitt Romney is showing you exactly who he is — a multimillionaire worth between $190 million and $250 million and he really doesn’t give a damn if you know it, and moreover, couldn’t care less about anyone not in his cultivated tax bracket, or who isn’t in some way going to help him buy a Republican nomination. “Hey, all you indigent poor in America! Yeah, you guys! Suck my rich platinum covered balls!” This is what he said to CNN early this morning. And you know what! Good for him! Truly. Why hide the fact that he’s a personality free, mockable, baseless, candidate drone who really doesn’t give a shit about the people in the country he’s fiercely campaigning to become a public servant of? He’s putting it all out there on the table and is actually becoming the most honest candidate in the often comic, but certainly insane bunch. Kudos, Romney, for languishing in the lowest common denominator in a dramatically unsurprising way.
Sure, we all know that Newt Gingrich is a pile of evil, steaming, turd-flesh whose jowls wattle with indignation and arrogance who only really wants the presidency because he thinks he’s entitled to it, that he’s earned it, and like some narcissist tumor that’s hell bent on sucking the interminable life dry of its host — that we as a nation would be dispensable without him. Romney, though. This guy just wants to be able to tick “President” off some list right after millionaire governor, and before exalted hero with his name vomited across a national library dedicated to his legacy. You, you little people, especially all you little people in flyover states, the deep south, yes, those Red States — the ones that need government assistance, social services, and are in need of a working healthcare system and a leg up to help you survive out there during a recession that’s still rampant with high unemployment numbers. Yeah, you guys? This is what Romney, rich Cash Czar, and total obsequious jackal, thinks about you.
“I’m in this race because I care about Americans. I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there….”
So poor doesn’t equal American? Thanks for clearing that up, sir. In what reads more like an after thought, he also mentions fixing that amorphous safety net, offering no real plan, or grasp of what, if anything, the SOCIALISMNESS could require.
“The challenge right now — we will hear from the Democrat party the plight of the poor. And there’s no question it’s not good being poor and we have a safety net to help those that are very poor. But my campaign is focused on middle-income Americans.”
So, uh, all you poor Republicans and Independents, according to Mitt Romney, the Democrats have your interests at heart. Baffling. Just where will we find such a Democrat nowadays?
Obama’s Romney attack ads are writing themselves. So, yes, Mittney 4600, keep talking, you’re producing a spectacular debate primer for when this thing really kicks off.
I for one am excited. Aren’t you?
