And You Know Mitt Romney Is Kind Because He Helps the Lame
Okay, y’all, this is the nicest thing I’ve read all week.
Coming on the heels of Mitt Romney strapping his poor dog to the roof of the car, and then testimony that he held down a fellow student and cut off his hair, Republicans have been scampering to find examples of how Mitt is really a very kind, gentle, helping person. You know, when he’s not firing people from their jobs to make himself richer.
One of his top advisers and, as luck would have it, his Lt. Gov. in Massachusetts, Kerry Healey, thought long and hard and then could only come up with one example of Mitt being kind. It, however, is a good one. Mitt helps the lame.
In defending Romney as “deeply compassionate” and “unfailingly kind,” she pointed to moments during the GOP primary when Romney was “being attacked from every side.”
“His response was always professional, calm, civil,” she pointed out. “In fact, he even intervened on behalf [of] — to try to help — Gov. Perry when he was stumbling [in attempting to remember a talking point during a debate]. His impulses are very kind impulses and there should be no debate about whether or not Gov. Romney is a bully.”
Y’all, listen to me. Do not roll your eyes, secure in the knowledge that Romney was taunting Perry. Do not do that.
You need to appreciate that the only damn thing a woman who has known him for 20 years can think of as an example of Mitt being kind is that he was trying to help a special needs Governor who was too drugged up to count to three.
I mean, that make him practically the Mother Teresa of compassionate conservatism.
If you’re only going to do one nice thing every 65 years, then helping a special needs Governor should certainly be what you pick.
Thanks to Deb for the heads up.
Maybe Romney really needs to read the Bible, the part about helping the poor, the sick, those in need….
1Now, now, now, he also was such a generous soul that he outspent the others and was able to remove the really bat-shit crazy contestants on “the conservative is right–really right.”
2Rmoney wasn’t even tainting Perry, he was bullying him in a very polite way. Showing how superior he was to that poor doper from TX, he played at being kind like a mean kid plays with ants under a magnifying glass. He showed up Perry and while sticking the knife in, gave a a twist. A truly pathological non-human is what Rmoney is.
3“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends”. Oscar Wilde. “He is liked, but he is not well liked”. Arthur Miller.
4Damn straight! Refocus people…Rmoney was only setting that poor, misguided, bleached blonde flamer (apologies, all) straight…with a pair of scissors–assaulted with a deadly weapon–natural leader of thugs and repressed bozos (and I have my own issues around it all since my ex didn’t come out until I was 47–and he was abusive to me for 30 years while closeted)
5My favorite story is a Kurt Vonnegut vignette about a man whose house is on fire and a group of tiny aliens lands next to the house, goes up on the porch; (co-cooperatively standing on each other to get to the doorbell) and –when the door opens, they try to tell the guy his house is on FIRE
but since the way they communicate (tap dancing and farting)
couldn’t reach him (a true narrow-minded bigot—LOL!!) he stomped on them…that is my life situation over and over–I am a tap dancing and farting fool, trying desperately to explain to people about the true nature of reality–that fears and hopes are the same thing, how we do anything is how we do everything–since we are all part of the whole and I have been called crazy, and stupid, liberal, and O-M-G, FEMALE–and the whole dang time the house is burning down…so far right they are self-righteous–the jack boots are easy to spot if you have half a brain….sigh, I am really glad that the world is an illusion–’cause we are in hell (raspberry fart sound with heel toe clicks)
Goodness, aren’t they showing the TV spot about a former employee of Mitt’s stating how his [the employee’s] teenager daughter went missing, Mitt closed down the entire office and Mitt and all the employees went to Iowa or wherever it was and … hallelujah … they recovered the missing daughter! Or are they only showing that heartstring-tugging ad in Colorado? Well, if it actually happening and they actually saved a child’s life … that’s a good thing, but it’s not enough to make me “like” Romney!!
6Was Mittens being kind to Perry? They shoot horses when they break down. And I heard that to Texans a horse was more valuable than a governor.
7Well, there was the time he arrived at a friend’s lakeside house and threw the resident dog’s favorite toy in the lake for him to fetch… except the toy sank to the bottom and the poor dog went in over and over trying to find it. Mitt was reportedly sad about that. I didn’t hear that he went in looking for the toy himself, though….
8Did you say “Mitt Romney is kind of lame?” I certainly agree with you on that.
9My favorite definition of kindness is: loving someone more than they deserve.
10Juanita Jean: I will not roll my eyes, because I know it’s rude, but I am sorely tempted.
Marcia,
I heard that story but that it was the daughter of one of his partners, not a regular employee. Sure, let’s shut the whole damn (sorry, Momma) office down and haul everyone to New York to search for this kid, but only ’cause it’s one of the partners. I wonder, did the office workers get paid while they were hunting this girl, or were they expected to do it gratis?
Sorry, but Twit Robme is not the kind of person I want as president of this country. Especially since we do have a kind, gentle, Christian family man in President Obama. The comparison between the two is just a real eyeopener.
11Mary in San Antonio I am so going to steal “Twit Robme.”
What were his parents thinking naming him Willard, nicknamed Mitt?? That just invites someone to be a bully to prove his manhood now doesn’t it? (rolls eyes at stupid ideas about manhood)
12Y’all, I take it back. Even ill considered names and nicknames don’t cause this much insensitivity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY6UTnS6Z-A
13Mary in San Antonio … I didn’t pay real close attention to this ad after watching it the first time to find out who this Saint on Earth was … when I heard it was ole Mittens … every time that ad comes on, I switch the channel … so my initial info was not correct except it boils down to some guy trying to portray Mitt as some kind of heaven-sent Messiah! Gag!!!
14No doubt Romney cares for his family, his church and his business partners, but he doesn’t appear to have any empathy or consideration for anyone outside that circle. He was a wealth creator, not a job creator, trying to buy his way into heaven, his own planet or whatever. Somehow I don’t think it’s going to work out fo rhim.
15June, Reagan was the same way. Show him one needy person and he’d want to help them. Tell him that a million needy people would suffer if he cut their benefits and it just went in one ear and straight out the other, touching nothing on the way.
16@RA Sociopathy does.
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