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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney's losing it bigtime...
You can tell from his body language, the pitch in his voice, the increase in the words-per-minute of his speaking style, the wide-eyed, nearly-hysterical facial expressions and hand gestures, and the FACT that he threw a tantrum before the Univision taping, that he is in panic-mode, and not only angry beyond his pathetic inability to understand his own anger and others' emotionality, but frustrated and teary and no longer able to grin that stupid smirk for minutes at a time while he's being attacked or even questioned. He knows the real numbers and trends coming back from the pollsters and it is grave news: he is plummeting and the results of the election will resemble nothing seen in the modern era of the Republican Party. The fact that he was able to compensate all those months during the primaries while garnering only a small fraction of the total vote, but "winning", lulled him into a sense of security which was unrealistically optimistic. He "won" very little or nothing; his competitors hated him immensely; he, like Phil Gramm before him, thought he could simply buy a Presidential Election, and it's just not true; he thought he was destined both from religious and fiscal/cultural vantage points and he was dead wrong on all counts. He will be politically destroyed, and as far as I'm concerned, it couldn't happen to a 'nicer' guy.
livetohike
(22,140 posts)Just watching the clips from his appearance at the AARP convention on Friday. If you mute the sound and just pay attention to his body language and face. I don't think he even believes what he says half the time. They're both despicable.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)No White House, no House of Rep for him.
DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)DLnyc
(2,479 posts)Just sayin'
mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)www.robzerban.com
mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)Greybnk48
(10,167 posts)I would LOVE to see Ryan go down in flames. He is definitely a cancer and I hope his political career ends here.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)evil darkness.
George II
(67,782 posts)DearAbby
(12,461 posts)was soundly BOO'd? Nope I can't think of a time either. That tape has had a serious affect, people will be weighing everything a Republican says by that tape.....
livetohike
(22,140 posts)I don't venture over to FOX . This week was full of good things for the Dems to use in ads! Where do you start? .
Cha
(297,171 posts)living in that would make him think he Wouldn't be BOOED?! Oh, Wait..never mind..
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Skidmore
(37,364 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)Thanks for the link!
LittlestStar
(224 posts)"Wait! I thought it was the MAC NC30, cream-to-powder foundation in "Rustic Cheetos" that warmed everyone to his hollow, craven and evasive rhetoric. Foiled again...
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kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)calimary
(81,220 posts)Welcome to DU LittlestStar!
Glad you're here - and we need you!!! We've GOT to put this bastard out in the wilderness where his ideology and that of all his little koch-head friends can't hurt anybody any longer.
Now get to work.
LittlestStar
(224 posts)I am doing every thing I can!
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Romney's crowd rubbed me the wrong way. They came across as rude and crass. It wasn't just the applause for romney, it was the blatant disrespect for the hosts.
And I saw Obama's crowd seemed to me warm, but well mannered. The biggest difference? They didn't disrespect the journalists
cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)site of photos with Mitt and Ann. But the internet is full of how the kids feel for Barack and Michelle. And kids absolutely know.
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)...Try watching a few minutes of Sean "Hasen't Any". I'm stuck having to watch him because of my staying at a tea-baggers house. Sean is really freaking out the past few days.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)But I don't think Romney can say more than "Yo soy Mitt Romney y apruebo este mensaje" ("I'm Mitt Romney and I approve this message" after his ads.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)I found the article, as Buzzfeed usually is, quite straight forward. I confess I didn't read much past the 'cool' and 'griiled' section, just skimmed after that. I did not see the program.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)He'll get more tired, more gaffe-prone, more frantic, more desperate, more incoherent. And I will be sitting there with my bowl of popcorn enjoying every minute of his implosion.
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)I think a steady downward slope hurts the Republicans on the down-ballot races without inducing Democratic complacency. If he falls apart too quickly, we might not get as good a turnout.
central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)Please let it be so!
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)President Obama is going to rope-a-dope him. Our president may not be the world's best debater, but he's focused and cool under pressure. Romney is going to flap like a wind sock in a hurricane.
ThomThom
(1,486 posts)Remember Gore after the press went all negative, he could really never get back up.
He should have won easily but the press wouldn't give him a break. Even today he still has no respect.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)the first debate approaches, where President Obama will be cool and collected as usual, ready to take on any question. Romney, on the other hand, will be anxious, insecure, and panicky. I anticipate much confusion on his part, and lots of opportunities for laughter.
George II
(67,782 posts)Five O'Clock shadow (Nixon)
Checking his watch (Bush I)
"That one" (McCain)
Or does he have new materail to submarine his campaign at the debates?
PCIntern
(25,541 posts)The President will play eight-dimensional chess with his brain...Romney will flip out internally...He'll get mad.
AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,850 posts)That could be a nice tantrum...
tblue37
(65,336 posts)Love the new "Ann Romney says Stahp" meme:
Kyad06
(127 posts)Married to the arrogant stupid pos. I bet he treats her like crap. Compare that face to Jill Biden laughiong at herself for an inadvertant sexual innuendo about her husband.
TexasTowelie
(112,141 posts)I'll be surprised if he can make it through three debates without using the "you people" phrase.
alsame
(7,784 posts)"We call the rope line now the advice line," she said. "...because everyone cares and everyone wants to help and everyone wants to just give their peace -- a little piece of advice -- so I feel like my best advice is just to bring peace and calm to him and just trust in him and just say, 'I know you can do it,' but not to give him any advice because it gets too overwhelming."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57517556-503544/ann-romney-to-critics-stop-it-this-is-hard-/
Also love the peace/piece typo.
beac
(9,992 posts)no way in hell he could handle BEING President.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)calimary
(81,220 posts)Which would absolutely apply to her ladyship ayn of dressage. Wonder how many of those "Princess Stomp" episodes we HAVEN'T seen...
TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)"Princess Stomp Stomp Stomp" perhaps?
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)how the hell does expect to actually be President?
CitizenPatriot
(3,783 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)She obviously thinks ordering the Republicans to "Stop it" will work.
nolabear
(41,960 posts)Any candidate who has to be "calmed down" by his wife only saying nice things to him is not fit to be president.
alsame
(7,784 posts)politics. My guess is that the Romneys are used to getting whatever they want whenever they want it and have not heard much criticism in their lives.
Can you even imagine if the Queen had to endure what Michelle Obama has been subjected to? Racist, sexist and just plain ugly criticism. Not to mention what she's had to hear about her husband.
BattyDem
(11,075 posts)he's going to completely lose it during the debates. He'll either drop the mask and reveal the arrogant, obnoxious bully he truly is ... or he'll say something offensive and racist. Either way, it won't be pretty.
The more desparate he gets, the meaner he will be. The temper tantrums will come out like in the primaries.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)If they were still backing him he'd still be smirking and confident. Without them he will lose and afterwards he will become a pariah to them. He won't be their golden boy anymore and they'll move on to the next schmuck they can manipulate.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)or hand-pick the "moderators" (boot-licking co-conspirators).
Alwaysna
(574 posts)This may be the first time in his life he couldn't get what he wanted! Something most people learn when they're toddlers.Hopefully he won't regress to bed wetting and thumb sucking!
calimary
(81,220 posts)It's part of the CEO mentality some of us have been considering for awhile - the CEO is king of his/her own little fiefdom - the company or corporation. The CEO is at the top of the proverbial ziggurat, at the point of greatest power, worship, admiration, leadership, even damn near deification. No one says "no" to the CEO. Because their own jobs and positions and upward mobility is at stake, so they know strategically it's far better for their own self-interest to bow and scrape and serve the CEO ("I like being able to fire people who serve me" while the CEO is the king, emperor, sultan, master of the universe, and all others are subservient and beholden unto them. The CEO is the one holding the leash(es) and everyone else underneath the CEO in the pecking order knows his/her place is with those leashes around the neck.
NO ONE dares to say no to the CEO. NO ONE tells the CEO anything but "yes, sir" or "yes, ma'am." So the CEO comes to believe in his or her own omnipotence. The whole "masters of the universe" thing in "Barbarians at the Gate" and "Bonfire of the Vanities." And when things don't work out, the CEO has no template for accepting or coping with that. When you're treated like a god, the last thing you're open to is your own fall from the celestial heights.
klook
(12,154 posts)and pretty accurate, I'm sure - especially in large and/or very wealthy organizations.
pasto76
(1,589 posts)who also happens to be mormon, but that is coincidence.
He is not an ironworker. The company owner is also mormon, and this guy needed a job. He learned just enough to be general foreman, with copious amounts of leniency and favoritism. He is not an ironworker. He doesnt know through years of aching body how hard this is, or how long something takes, or how much harder or longer it takes to fix things he screws up.
When he realizes he screwed up big time, and it will take weeks and thousands of dollars in payroll to fix, he starts to behave exactly like this. It is like a denial of service attack on a network. It is a mass distraction, panic fear and hoping someone will bail them out somehow.
Love that romney is in this position
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)When we get reports that his donations are drying up bigtime, stick a fork in him. His donors will move on to the congressional races. Meantime, keep working like hell for Obama right through election day. We need to BURY MittTwit RobMe and Paulie RyAYNRAND.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)You are so right about his character defects beginning to surface.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)allan01
(1,950 posts)rmoney in panic mode.
eggplant
(3,911 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)when you wrote this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002650463
I could tell you have him pegged very clearly.
I see what you see.
PCIntern
(25,541 posts)I'd forgotten it myself.
PC
mimi85
(1,805 posts)what foresight you showed! Excellent post. Yep, thanks Mira.
Damn, that seems so long ago, just like the GOP debates. I sure hope the moderators are better this time. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when Rmoney and Portman are preparing. No doubt, Mittster the Twister will try one of those "there you go again" type lines. And will fail miserably, unlike RR.
nolabear
(41,960 posts)Interesting development in 3...2...1...
(Wouldn't you love to see them intro him and wait, and wait, and wait...I hope a tape was rolling the whole time)
ruffburr
(1,190 posts)I agree with eggplant #30, I have this vision of mittens having a full blown meltdown in the debates, might not happen but just the thought makes me LM AO, Please God whomever you may be Please!
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calimary
(81,220 posts)We need you! Because we HAVE TO make sure these bastards don't take the White House away, and don't make more inroads in the Senate or House of Reps. We HAVE TO make sure they're securely contained so their reckless, selfish, greedy ideology won't be able to hurt or threaten anybody else.
Now get to work.
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Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)ywcachieve
(365 posts)Good to know I am not the only one who has noticed it.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)People just don't like you Mitt.
Deal with it.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Keep kicking until its dead.
Epiphany4z
(2,234 posts)at how much work this has turned out to be. His money and his buddies money where supposed to just buy it for him. It worked for him in the R primary.
Botany
(70,501 posts)Last edited Sat Sep 22, 2012, 05:30 PM - Edit history (1)
he was talking way too fast and you tell he was under stress.
proReality
(1,628 posts)k2qb3
(374 posts)Mitt is under enormous pressure. He's spent the last seven years working for this moment, he's the fulfillment of prophecy, the only thing standing between America and a thousand years of darkness, and losing means the end of the Republican party.
He's going to blow a gasket.
sevenseas
(114 posts)1. OCTOBER 3rd DEBATE and
2. ELECTION DAY
When I will cast my vote for OBAMA
I am SO pumped!
THEN- we need to concentrate on dumping all the Sarah Palin 'look-alikes'
that got elected JUST BECAUSE THEY RESEMBLED PALIN.
I have one word to describe people who voted for the Palin 'look-alikes'=
SHALLOW!!!
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)... and uh get in the ring
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)to have him running for the president of the United States of America, is this true?
Whisp
(24,096 posts)because that is the way it always went for him. And now reality has set into Ann and Romney's fantasy world and they just don't understand 'us people' that we don't love and adore them.
Yeh, I've noticed that look of a cornered animal in panic in his eyes. Frightening to think this wants to lead the free world. Even the Chimperor never had that scared like a little chicken look on his mug - he'd be more like a cornered weasel looking this way and that for how to escape but he didn't have full out Fear shitting pantaloons look on him, that I recall.
AnneD
(15,774 posts)Was too stupid to be scared. Besides, he had Rove whispering in his ears during the debate.
Blue Belle
(5,912 posts)I didn't hear about that one.
PCIntern
(25,541 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)Rethug turn out for their primaries was low,as the corporate media observed many times. He may have won primaries but w/ low voter participation.
lobodons
(1,290 posts)and look who his competition in the primaries was. Gingrich, Cain, Bachman, Perry and Pawlenty. I mean, C'mon man!!
reformist2
(9,841 posts)I think even Nixon liked people more than Mittens!
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)BREMPRO
(2,331 posts)his desperation is like a guy who can't get a date and get increasingly desperate... just making his prospects worse... at least he has his creepy stepford wife and robot sons and piles of cash in the Caymans to keep him company
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,112 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)Skittles
(153,150 posts)yes INDEED
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)will do a follow up book after Bush...."Romney on the Couch." God knows there is plenty of material for him to work with.
judesedit
(4,438 posts)Which he did recently...even though he's borrowing money for his campaign. Sound like Bain tactics? It does to me. This is how Rob-me handles his businesses. Go Obama!
cyclezealot
(4,802 posts)When he opens his mouth he reflects the real Mitt. Don't get too complacent. the Koch ad money has yet to kick in.. along with his other billionaire friends thanks to Citizens United.. Free publicity for Mitt does have an impact. Ad makers are professional . Expect a real ad blitz about the last two weeks of October.
Cha
(297,171 posts)I only see Miffed in Ads the Dems are putting out and then I can barely stand it. The last I saw him he was Smirkin' and Jivin.
I was asking what would wipe that smirk off his face?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021332785
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)He's already long gone lost
Just saying
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)I'm really looking forward to the debates with "No Drama" Obama. What I'm REALLY looking forward to are the VP debates. Joe will take that little snot Ryan to the cleaners. I don't know why Biden has let the media make him a buffoon. If you paid any attention to him before he was VP, you know he's a very impressive guy, Just one look at Jill, and you know she'd never marry an A...hole.
ywcachieve
(365 posts)And the media who are corporate controlled are the a--holes.
GeorgeGist
(25,320 posts)Kyad06
(127 posts)I swear he looks and acts like a psychopath.
valerief
(53,235 posts)proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)Nauseating.
Kyad06
(127 posts)Its all about the ratings plus corporate America wants the douche bag to win