The Real Mit Romney

[GaijinPunch]

Right here

[drboom]

That is some funny shit.

[Blackbird]

Wow, this just made my day. This is just hilarious =D.

[Udderdude]

Romney likes lying. A lot.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#46816690

[BryanM]

As Colbert pointed out:

If corporations are people, that means Mitt Romney is a serial killer.

[Udderdude]

As Colbert pointed out:

If corporations are people, that means Mitt Romney is a serial killer.

hahaha oh wow

[undamned]

Nice to see videos that are both funny and HQ!
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[Udderdude]

I especially like how most of his most outrageous quotes in that video aren't the ones spliced together from different sentences. It's the crap that he actually said.

[linko9]

Wow, very impressive

[CStarFlare]

I kept rewinding this thing because some parts were so good I couldn't wait for the video to finish before I saw them again

[Ed Oscuro]

A bit of graffiti I saw today:

"If you thought the GOP was bad
wait until you learn about capitalism!"
(A)

I think that this ad may well have been put together by Gingrich or maybe Santorum supporters, so that's one thing to consider. Those guys aren't immune from the same crap; Rick Santorum might structure his family as if he was a poor dirt farmer but he actually has some money, and let's not forget that just days ago it was Rick saying he didn't care about the unemployment rate, giving Romney a much-needed sound bite opportunity. It's interesting how this nominations process has given the less shattering, more nebulous sound bite the most visibility (in the Etch-A-Sketch comment).

I especially like how most of his most outrageous quotes in that video aren't the ones spliced together from different sentences. It's the crap that he actually said.

To be fair, there are decent, maybe not great, explanations for some of them.

Like his "I like to fire people" comment - he was talking about health insurers. Now, it does show that he isn't thinking about health care like most people - it's something most people cling desperately to, for there is no alternative, while he is wealthy enough to buy a service of his choice and daydream about finding the "best match of services to my needs" or however an accountant might put it. Ma on the corner of Bumble and Downtrod is raising one family and probably doesn't even have healthcare, and if she did she wouldn't be looking to Romney to "fire" them for her, but to clean up their acts, or at least give the insurance some way to bring down her premiums. I think that Romney was trying to riff on the idea of people being able to "fire" bad insurance providers after suffering so many pink slips of their own, and let people feel they might have some power over the issue when he is Prez (which, of course, is completely nutso because only Obama's Administration has made plausible moves in allowing people more latitude in health care, Individual Mandate included; most of the GOP seems like it would either spontaneously combust, or maybe try to take credit, if anybody made serious moves to allow more consumer choice and control over insurance). Whether or not that is a reasonable concern or wish to project onto the average person isn't really the point; the point is that he was not talking about enjoying firing people from jobs when he was head of Bain Capital.

However I think that goes in an interesting way back to Colbert's observation of Romney as a slayer of corporations. I think that most mainstream economists would agree that underperforming companies aren't a great thing to keep around, so there's that.

I suppose what I'm trying to get at is that some of this stuff kind of ricochets off Romney's technicolor cloak of inevitability, certainly with his supporters, because they can speak more about common beliefs or stereotypes about the guy, rather than what his actual problems are.

The main problem with Romney, despite being a philanthropist, and the jobs market is that he has a track record of predatory investments with Bain Capital, being essentially dishonest in telling corporate owners how much Bain Capital was willing to pay and then finding things to knock down the price after they had outbid competitors and gotten a special status. Under Romney, his investment firm became one corporate serial liar.

But that's on a point-by-point basis; I think that the basic idea of the video is right and that he has lost sight of his principles. The "Etch-A-Sketch" comment crystallized that for a lot of people. Moderates might think they're thrilled, but don't the American voters have a reasonable right to expect that the candidate is not completely pandering, shedding his opinion like last week's sport coat from Brooks Brothers?

[BryanM]

but don't the American voters have a reasonable right to expect that the candidate is not completely pandering, shedding his opinion like last week's sport coat from Brooks Brothers?

No. This is the USA!

I have to reiterate this isn't a man or anything built by man. His brain is out whizzing around out in space somewhere, while this empty shell is being piloted by a Mi-Go here. The entire little deal with the Nascar fans and their rain ponchos...

argh and how he likes to brag how his friends play Football Manager irl. Blarg. I don't care if Obama is Stalin Himself; if I can avoid having to be overtly insulted by an alien president for the next four years, that would be super.

[BulletMagnet]

I think that the basic idea of the video is right and that he has lost sight of his principles.

Considering what the GOP openly stands for these days I frankly wouldn't mind if he did.

[Domino]

This video sucks. Do better GP.

[GaijinPunch]

This video sucks. Do better GP.

Eat my ass, right-wing closet homo.

[Domino]

This video sucks. Do better GP.

Eat my ass, right-wing closet homo.

[GaijinPunch]

Video is better every time it's watched.