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by Jed Lewison
Remember when the beltway went batshit crazy because an adviser to President Obama said there was a "weirdness factor" about Mitt Romney? Pundits tried to turn it into some sort of anti-Mormon thing, and Romneyland responded with outrage. Ultimately, David Axelrod calmed things down by saying that going forward, using the word "weird" to describe Mitt Romney would be a fireable offense for any Obama campaign staffer.
Well, flash forward about eight months to the present day, and check out how Mitt Romney's own staff is describing their candidate to The New York Times:
So, having succeeded in banishing the word "weird" from the Obama campaign's vocabulary ... Romneyland is now using it to describe their own guy's leadership style. Which reminds me of that time he strapped his dog inside a kennel on the roof of the family car ... for a 12 hour road trip to Montreal.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/28/1069088/-Mitt-Romney-aide-Mitt-is-weird-
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/the-5-best-mitt-romney-gifs-of-the-debate
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101713889
FSogol
(45,595 posts)yellerpup
(12,254 posts)from the Broadway hit, "Book of Mormon" might help explain the phenomenon:
Elder:I've got a feeling,
That you could be feeling,
A whole lot better then you feel today
You say you got a problem,
well thats no problem,
It\'s super easy not to feel that way!
When you start to get confused because of thoughts in your head,
Don\'t feel those feelings!
Hold them in instead
Turn it off, like a light switch
just go click!
It\'s a cool little Mormon trick!
We do it all the time
When your feeling certain feels that just don\'t feel right
Treat those pesky feelings like a reading light
and turn em off,
Like a light switch just go bap!
Really whats so hard about that?
Turn it off! (Turn it off!)
When I was young my dad,
Would treat my mom real bad,
every time the Utah Jazz would loose.
He\'d start a\' drinking,
and I\'d start a thinking,
How am I gonna keep my mom from getting abused?
For the rest: http://www.themusicallyrics.com/b/225-the-book-of-mormon-musical/1307-turn-it-off.html
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)The aid is just confimring what everyone already thought.
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WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)'every other post on DU is a vicious attack against him' Enjoy your stay.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"He's so weird that every other post on DU"
..weird that you showed up: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002354584
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)If I had a quarter of a billion dollars, I'd be doing lots of other things, especially if my previous attempts to run didn't work out and my current attempt wasn't meeting with great success.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)even when their people were rioting in the streets because they wanted them gone? Some people just can't take a hint.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)weird...
Newt Gingrich spoke Tuesday night at West Georgia College, where he worked as an assistant professor in the 1970s before he was elected to Congress. Before launching into his typical stump speech, he went on a peculiar tangent.
Gingrich, who has been largely absent from the Michigan and Arizona contests going on tonight, thanked supporters at his old stomping ground, including many people who have been with him since the start of his political career.
He also told an anecdote about taking on tough challenges involving an accident that happened when he and a friend tried to cut down a tree in the man's yard, without paying for a tree surgeon. After the tree fell into the house, damaging the roof and ceilings, he said, they ultimately had to pay a tree surgeon anyway plus extensive repairs on the house.
But in the end, he said, the humbling experience gained him friends, and has won him new friends because he's able to admit his own flaws.
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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/newt-tells-supporters-story-about-tree-that-had
OK, that's goofy.
Asshole!
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)I can see myself doing that.
Of course, I wouldn't then try to spin it as a great experience of personal growth and a lesson in humility, but that's because I'm not a politician.
To a certain extent, most politicians, be they left, right, or center, have at least a little bit of the weird about them. Normal people are (for better or worse) less likely to run for office.
flexnor
(392 posts)first of all, the guy is tone-deaf
the 'wanna bet $10,000' in the middle of a debate, in front of evangelicals in Iowa, most of which are against gambling, a bet that probably isnt even LEGAL right in front of the governor - this from a guy who is supposedly devoiutly religious, not even drinking a diet coke because it has caffine in it. it really smacked of 'look how much money i have! i can bully people around, because i can afford to lose it and they cant!' (which takes me to the next two paragraphs)
and his bain capital history is gross in most people's eyes, a corporate raider, playing with money very rich people can afford to lose, sucking the juice out of companies when they're vulnerable, and leaving them destroyed
even the 'staples' he touts is nothing to crow about. it's a category killer that put most office supply mom and pop stores out of business. i really doubt he 'created any net jobs, but he made sure that anyone who works in office supplies does NOT work for themselves, they have to work for a big corporation. nothing wrong with the staples store, but is there anything there that you coudnt find before?
the message from this primary, is that he is a pill that even the republicans cant force down, they just dont like him
sometimes, people will say someone seems 'plastic'. but with him, it's more than a figure of speech
PatSeg
(47,770 posts)That is a good description of what I've seen in Romney for a long time. That is what makes him look like a robot or an alien impersonating a human. The fact that he's like that when he's not on stage is really creepy.