A farewell to Romney, who was Once again Circling over the Carcass of the American “Middle Class”, but clearly didn’t get the Green Light from the Stupidparty Establishment, who have Bigger Fools to Nurture.  But we must never forget what he stands for.

“We’ve got a former presidential candidate on the other side who suddenly is just deeply concerned about poverty. (Laughter.) That’s great! Let’s go! Come on! Let’s do something about it!”

 

The Term Middle Class is a strange term – for does this include the “struggling class”? i.e the in excess of 40% of the population who live in, or are one crisis away from living in poverty. For these people are the unmentionables in American society. 
Patrick Andendall 

His advocates say he is a good business man  – maybe, but he was an Asset Stripper. He and his band of brothers would strip away employee benefits having already stripped away employees. Was this good business sense? May be at times – but that is not the point – that was never the motivation, the motivation is always pocketing as much as you can,  and then having walked a way with pile of blood money, find a way of not paying any taxes. Yes— I believe that Harry Reid (being well connected in the Mormon world himself) knew precisely what he was talking about when he publicly accused Romney of not paying any taxes for years. I also believe I have a pretty idea why Romney would adamantly refuse to release those tax returns. Regardless these guys, these Gordon Gekko’s, they are vultures—I am not arguing that Vultures do not have a role in the Eco system – but they should not be the King of the Jungle, rather they should be viewed as say an IRS agent – something we have to tolerate, but certainly not gush over. 

His advocates say he does Charitable stuff. No shit Sherlock – a mufti millionaire groomed and destined no less to rule the plebs, it is not difficult to throw around a few bucks to polish up ones image. But lets linger on this for a while—as a Mormon he is meant to give a hefty amount to a faith that is patently absurd, whose go to prophet was a clear cut charlatan. But I did notice a surprising lack of good deeds, perhaps due to modesty. But one story I heard did leave a lasting a impression. Here is Romney the hero

 “Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream. And we got into the docks and they were all full and I looked around, there was no place to park, so we stopped at the end of a dock. They all jumped off and ran up the dock. And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything — they just left me out there at sea. So I finally found a place to park after about 20 minutes, and I pulled in, I said, ‘Who’s going to grab the rope?,’ and I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he’s going to rescue this great country.”

His advocates say that he reformed Massachusetts health care – and they are right. But if you are so shallow as to try and distance yourself from your one achievement, all because he would then have had to try and say something intelligent to the Stupidparty base—well that is pretty revealing. It was ironic that the only Stupidparty candidate who made an effort to talk intelligently to the Stupidparty disciples was fellow Mormon – John Huntsman. Mr Huntsman never got much more than 2% in the polls. So the moral of the tale is that you can not have an intelligent dialogue with the Stupidparty disciples.

How did this great business man he do as Governor? The Boston Globe concluded their 2007 editorial as follows: “Real world experience has shown that a governor is limited in his power to influence the course of economic development in a state. A full-time governor who is deeply committed to the economic well-being of a state’s workers can, however, make some difference. The state unfortunately did not receive such leadership over most of the past four years. Jokes about Massachusetts may receive some half-hearted laughter on the national campaign trail, but few working men and women in Massachusetts should see anything funny about the state’s lackluster economic performance during the Romney years.”

The sillier a religion, the more Misogynistic it tends to be. The Papacy before the present Pope at least, has always had an outrageous agenda -that has absolutely nothing to do with the teachings of Christ. Mormons have similar or worse notions. Religions based upon polygamous prophets may at least have more doctrinal excuses, but that is not saying much. But Mitt being part of Mormon Royalty, is destined to be President (why do you you think that Mr and Mrs Romney were so utterly dumbfounded not to win the 2012 election—even though the Mathematicians had figured the results weeks if not months before hand) and to become President he needs some female voters. So he seemingly makes various obtund efforts. But that is perhaps beside the point- since he is incapable of being honest:

“Mitt Romney moved to build his support among female voters by boasting during the presidential debate that he had named more women to senior positions as Massachusetts governor than did the governors of any other state. It was perhaps not his best moment. By Wednesday morning, skeptics pounced on his claim, citing a 2007 academic study that concluded that when Mr. Romney left office in December 2006, the share of women in top policy-making jobs was actually smaller than it was under his Republican predecessor.

Moreover, women’s rights advocates said that Mr. Romney had falsely claimed to be the inspiration for promoting women to high positions when in fact a women’s political organization had conceived and largely executed it.”

Romney then went to make his “Binders full of Women” comment. Only the tone deaf, or fellow male chauvinists would not register the essence of Romney’s psyche. People like Joe Scarborough just never understood and proves his tone deaf  Misogyny- and then digs his hole deeper by bullying his female co host into submission.

 As Rolling Stone Magazine reports: He’s planned to ‘get rid of’ Planned Parenthood. 

Romney supports the Blunt Amendment which would allow employers to deny health insurance coverage on the basis of moral objections — a rule aimed at allowing employers to opt out of providing benefits that undermined their consciences, including contraceptive coverage. But as governor of Massachusetts, Romney required all health care providers– including Catholic hospitals — to offer emergency contraception to rape victims.

Romney is fighting a covert battle against contraception. (I personally believe that Religions or Organisations that proactively try to block contraceptives are guilty of a form of manslaughter)

Romney failed to condemn Rush Limbaugh’s characterization of Sandra Fluke as a “slut.”

Romney supports restricting access to abortions. He has called Roe v. Wade “one of the darkest moments in Supreme Court history.” 

Does not support equal pay for Women – The Lilly Ledbetter act

He  warmly embraced the “marvelous” Ryan budget which ends Medicare in any recognizable form and would throw between 14 million and 27 million people off of Medicaid, around two thirds of them women. 

He wants to repeal  “Obamacare” – – 17 million women due to get health coverage under the law will remain uninsured.

In 2005, Gov. Romney vetoed a bill requiring hospitals to provide emergency contraception to rape victims. He justified the move by citing the anti-birth control claptrap of the rightwing fringe that the morning after pill is a form of abortion. (It isn’t – it prevents conception.) 

Massachusetts legislature overrode Romney’s veto, ensuring that rape victims in that state would not be forced against their will to bear the child of their rapist. Women who live in the Red States of the Bible Belt won’t be so blessed.

Romney as President –“The end of dating as we know it….
Casual dating, the kind where one of you inevitably says “So… what are we?” at 4 am after you two have been watching Game of Thrones and then having sex regularly for a few weeks, will be dramatically different under a Romney presidency. When pregnancy must be seen through to the end, every possible consensual pregnancy-causing encounter becomes less fun and more dire — unnecessary baggage for an act that is supposed to be fun and bond-exploring.”

Did anyone actually bother to analyze Romney’s 2012 convention speech in regards to the economy—he had a 5- or was it a 7-point plan that took up a mere 221 vacuous words (out of 4,094) in a remarkably fact-deprived outing. Each one of those plans could have been torn to shreds by a seventh grader from a good school district. 
Let us quickly eviscerate every one of those 221 words:

1) By 2020 the USA will be energy independent.. well Obama will do that by 2018
2) Job retraining ya da ya.. except his VP and the Stupidparty platform would cut such retraining.
3) Unlike Obama – he would implement trade agreements—except this being one of his numerous blatant lies…Obama had negotiated trade agreements 
4) Cut the deficit – but he always refused to explain how.
5) Cut taxes for Business – but he adamantly refused to explain how such cuts would be funded.
6) Respect for Women – well may be the ones from his binders, no sign from his Mormon Misogynist prior activities
7) Unlike Obama I will not raise taxes on the Middle Class—except was yet another of his numerous blatant lies, since Obama had done no such thing.

So exposing this vacuous economic agenda, rendered by  a pathological  liar….. 

I suspect that Romney has been a liar since the first words came of his mouth – “Ma, I did not spit out my silver spoon” —but he certainly lied horrendously from his very first campaign ad incorrectly showing Obama as saying “if we talk about the economy, we lose” and he lied right till the bitter – some claptrap about the auto Industry to try and fool the Ohio voters.

But did we attack his plan for what it was—do we compare it with reality, do we compare it with what has actually been achieved since that speech? Do we even remind the electorate that Romney would have happily destroyed the US Auto Industry, especially so if he and his asset-stripping Gordon Gekko wannabes could strip away worker benefits whilst pocketing the supposed savings. In one short trip to the UK just before the Olympics he successfully united the British public into full-blown hostility towards his imbecilic efforts at diplomacy and stirred the unprecedented on the public record wrath of each leader of the three main parties, plus the mayor of London (a Conservative to boot) – does anyone ever to get point out that that horrendous Auto “bailout” and the all the other bailouts – were not bailouts , but in fact taxpayers taking ownership and then profiting to the tune of about $54,000,000,000.

What is the story behind Romney not paying his taxes. Reid, the leader of the Senate is totally plugged in to the Mormon culture and to Mormon leading families like the Huntsman’s – he would not make such assertions without knowing the true story. Why would Romney refuse, to the point of virtually creating an additional death nail to his coffin of a campaign. I am pretty convinced that he would have benefited from the Tax amnesty the Feds gave to people illegally hiding their money in Swiss Bank accounts – before the Swiss banks were forced to come clean.

Romney’s one apparent accomplishment—outside of Asset Stripping and giving misogynistic advice as a Mormon Bishop, was his efforts in salvaging the Utah Olympic games. But he always some how forgets to mention a few crucial details  because without $1.5 billion of taxpayer money, the games would have been a failure, and there are questions surrounding the cronyism in funneling taxpayer dollars to his Mormon friends. There are lingering questions about Romney accepting $1.5 million in campaign donations from two central figures in the Olympic bribery scandal, including one prominent Mormon who Romney helped acquire a key real estate deal.

Having sat through that Romney documentary I was sort of stunned to conclude that most of my feelings about Romney were given yet more substance. The thing is, that if I had a sympathetic documentary crew following me and my family around for four or five years, I am sure they could make me and my family look extraordinary, brilliant, witty and fun.  But in this documentary only Romney came across as having a tad of introspection -admitting that he was standing on the shoulders of his Dad. Such a moment of humility was never close to being apparent in the rest of his family.

Not one piece of coherent election strategy advice, some monologues about too much tax; deh,  everyone would like to less tax, just some of us have not found the loopholes or Swiss bank accounts to do it.  No sign of humor or empathy. Just a rich, entitled and sycophantic crew. So sycophantic and oblivious that even Romney himself had to give them the occasional dose of reality. The overwhelming impression—these kids that apparently had nothing better to do—well they were all just so boring. The epiphany that hit me like a ton a bricks was that these Mormon Tea totaling baggers desperately needed Alcohol and a lot of it, to have any chance of turning them into interesting or amusing conversationalists. Ann Romney had nothing of note to say and she even somehow made her efforts to seem human, by snuggling up to her dressage Horse’s mouth, look quite creepy. 

Throughout the campaign Mrs. Romney’s comments have gone from entitled (It’s our turn) to snobbish (you people) to self pitying (running for president is hard) to angry (Republicans are lucky to have Mitt as their nominee) to bizarre (her concerns at Mitt’s mental health). Ann Romney has revealed herself to be just as out of touch and difficult to like as her husband.

The notion that the establishment would encourage another Romney campaign would seem absurd, (and that is now apparent) But the same old band of clowns is reassembling for a third time – with even the likes of Palin and Trump (who both suffer from the Dunning–Kruger effect, amongst several other likely candidates) threatening to throw their capotain hats into the circus ring. Romney is the smartest of the lot, but by being a pathological liar whose only motivation is to strip other peoples wealth, where he and his cronies can luxuriate on the backs of the American workers – who so far have reaped a bare fraction of the massive increases in productivity in the last 30 years. The march of the Oligarchs, the march to Galt’s kingdom – carries on unchecked – and as of yet not single Stupidparty leader has twigged it. Romney had been the likely Emperor (from elected officials), the others being dispensable pawns to the Koch and Friends voyage to total ascendancy over Democracy. 

That just leaves Jeb Bush – who does not need the Koch’s -but yet he might be the worst of them all. But that is a different story.