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Romney’s “Schlock Patriotic Presentation”

January 30, 2012 at 5:15 PM Leave a comment

Regular visitors to this site know I love Matt Taibbi.  Nobody cuts through the bullsh*t like he does and today he’s out with another masterpiece:

How the GOP Race Became a Showdown Between a Walking OCD Diagnosis and a Flatulent Serial Adulterer

But [Romney] couldn’t do it. Less than a week after New Hampshire, Romney committed a series of gaffes that revealed his crucial character flaw: He’s a hypernervous control freak who flips out if you try digging around below the paper-thin veneer of his schlock patriotic presentation. The robotic Mormon financier looks like a walking OCD diagnosis, a trim coil of tightly wound energy with perfect coif and tie, seemingly living in permanent terror of a single hair falling out of place. For this type of anal-retentive personality, the messy chaos of South Carolina was a phobic horror. Faced with actual opposition, he lost his grip on everything. At a time when a quarter of the population has zero or negative net worth, when outrage against the financial elite is at an all-time high on both sides of the political aisle, Romney, it turns out, is so weirdly tone-deaf about his status as a one-percenter and bloodsucking corporate raider that any question in that direction sends his eyes pinwheeling. As his electably boring-mannequin act began to crumble, his carefully concealed true self – a deluded gazillionaire nitwit – was suddenly thrust naked onstage for all of America to gape at.

The only problem is, [Newt's] a bloviating, egomaniacal hog clinging to a third marriage who suffers from incurable diarrhea of the mouth and, according to polls, is one of the most intensely disliked politicians in America, making him an utterly absurd choice for the general election. If Gingrich ends up winning the nomination, Obama will essentially be running against the political version of Gilbert Gottfried or raw garlic – strong tastes that some like quite a lot, but many more can’t stand to even be near. If that happens, every Democratic flack from Leon Panetta to Obama himself will have to wear restraints to keep from publicly crying out in joy.

You go Matt!

If you have time, read the whole thing.  Taibbi’s sarcastic sense of humor alone makes it worth it.

Entry filed under: 2012 Election, Republicans, Including Wingers & "Moderates". Tags: gop race, matt taibbi.