I had actually come to gain a modicum of respect for Mitt Romney, modicum defined as a small quantity. I remember only too well his utter cluelessness during the 2012 general election, when I thought him a complete fool and used the referent “Mittens” when speaking about him. But in recent years, upon viewing Romney having had the courage to oppose Donald Trump by voting to have him removed, I did gain a modicum of respect for the man. Color that gone. He has just proven beyond any shadow of a doubt how completely out of touch he is. Take a look at this tweet, this says it all.
It was also over-emotionalized at a psycho level. I'm a behaviorist. Watching Katie Britt as a citizen was difficult. Watching it professionally was riveting because I couldn't believe what I was seeing/hearing. Let's not normalize her contrived bonkers-level tone and delivery.
— The Shallow State (@OurShallowState) March 10, 2024
I guess the baby fundie voice got him excited, wow, a real woman, a woman he can relate to, acting like a woman should. But his thought process is dead wrong. First of all, to conflate Biden and Britt in any way is simply incorrect. Biden has always had his fire in the belly side. If need be there are plenty of clips of Joe from years long past and maybe we should splice them together and send a reel to Mittens.
Mittens is trying to do damage control here, which I find interesting. Does this mean he wants Britt to be the VP or thinks that’s a good idea? I think it’s a wonderful idea, myself. A Trump/Britt ticket would be a howler for the centuries. Please please let it come to pass. The left is laughing and the right hates Britt. Newsmax denounced her as phony and out of touch — so please, let’s put her on the same ticket as Trump for the fall.
Exactly. The psychologists call it “reversion to type.” And Romney’s baseline is clueless rich asshole pontificator. That’s who he is at his core. And that’s what people saw in 2012 and that’s why his 47% crack tanked him. (If you’ve forgotten the details, Romney said that 47% of the country was on some kind of public assistance, due to the Democrats — specifically the Black man in office who was just giving it all away.) It rang false — and stupid — then and this crack today also rings false and stupid.
At the time Romney made the crack, he was still trying to explain the elevator in his garage. He had a house at the beach, you see, where there isn’t a lot of parking space and so he had a garage in the house, but the garage wasn’t quite big enough so he had to have an elevator installed. Comparisons were made to the Green Hornet, who had a specially equipped garage, rigged to have the floor flip over and expose Black Beauty, his hot, crimefighting car. (For car lovers, there are two Black Beauties, the one from the original 1940 film is the car to die for, an art deco vision that Lincoln Mercury designed.)
In any event, Mittens was born to wealth and completely oblivious to the lives of average people and it showed. Now, once again, he’s showing how oblivious he is, by conflating fire in the belly Joe Biden’s address with psycho-phony stage act, Katie Britt. And the inference that we are somehow intimidated just seals Romney’s legacy.
He is a dumb phuque. And let’s not forget that he was all too willing to bend the knee to Trump and sell his soul in the hopes of securing a cabinet position. That was not so long ago.
Romney would have been better off keeping his mouth shut on this one. Because all he’s done is make himself look like a fool by defending the indefensible. Romney was the last of the recognizable Republican types. Then the party had nobody and they found the trust fund baby reality TV actor. And that sealed their fate for good.
I don’t doubt that he likes Katie Britt. She represents a recognizable Republican type herself. I daresay he thinks she’s simply wonderful, because she knows her place. But the fact is, she blew the phony core of the GOP right out into the open and like the genie and the bottle, she can’t make it go back to last Wednesday. I’m sure she devoutly wishes that she could.
Britt changed the game plan for 2024 and not in a good way. I’m dead certain that Trump won’t pick her to be VP simply because the right-wing has made it clear that they hate her. If not for that, she might have had a shot — and maybe that was the idea. Maybe the SOTU rebuttal was her launch into national politics. If so, it was the Apollo 1 of political launches, it totally burst into flames on the launch pad.
I’d only be worried because it would be like trying to stroke a neurotic terrier.
“But the fact is, she blew the phony core of the GOP right out into the open and like the genie and the bottle, she can’t make it go back to last Wednesday.”
That is it. The GOP is a bunch of phonies, saying things that they think people want to hear.
But they’ve spent so much time in their own little bubble, they’ve lost track of what people REALLY think. Reality is really going to hit hard at the next election when they find out just what a minority they actually are.
And their out of touch party collapses.
This from an ultra wealthy asshole who’s religious beliefs are founded on golden plates found in the woods which mysteriously disappeared after being interpreted by an ignorant buffoon. Sure mittens. Stick with what you know…the whine list.
Afraid of the magnificent gift the twit britt gave us? Are you completely brain dead mittens? Her clown show likely put a whole bunch of undecideds into the democrats camp. Especially women who likely watched that act and said to themselves “if this is what happens when you become a republican, I think I’ll pass”.
Britt is exactly the dream woman of evangelical.males dream. And that is pretty much the same ideal.for Mormon woman like Mitten’s wife.
Ann Romney is a female version of her husband :born to.money and clueless about how normal.people live. I remember her whining about how grad student housing g was,so small they had to.use and ironing board for a dinner table (which is complete bs;family housing for grad students has a small dining area)and they were so poor they couldn’t have people over(more bs; you just have a pot luck or make a big pot of spaghetti sauce and the guests bring dessert and salad and bread). Here however is the proof of her cluelessness: She complained they were so.poor they *almost had to sell some of the stock in Kittens poettfolio.*
Reality check:_even most Ivy League grad students do not have stock portfolios. They combine scholarships, loans and work to make ends meet. Their spouses work full-time, even the ones with kids. And apparently Ann never heard of birth control, because they hadn’t been married very long and she’d already pumped out two kids. Nobody forced her to have kids fresh out of the temple wedding.
Two of the dumbest, most self-centered and clueless people on the planet with absolutely no empathy or interest in how Mittens’ fellow grad students. Too sad . He might have been a better governor,and Senator had bothered to actually experience life the way most Americans do.