Romney: The Most Ridiculous Presidential Candidate Ever?

Has there ever been a more ridiculous presidential candidate in American history than Mitt Romney?

Maybe Pat Paulson? What about Lyndon LaRouche? There was that time some party ran a pig.

But if you think about it, Pat Paulson, like most satirists, was a pretty sharp guy. Plus, despite the farcical nature of his ‘campaign’, everyone knew what he really meant and he was much more trustworthy at telling the truth than Mitt.

LaRouche was pretty damn wacky but consider this: remember Romney’s ‘private’ fundraising dinner where he slandered 47% of the American people, the one where he thought that only his real base (rich white people) was listening? That’s when we saw and heard a much different Mitt than the one we’re used to seeing and hearing. Rather than the stiff, forced, robotic, phony bullshit artist Mitt, we saw an amazingly relaxed and natural seeming Mitt. Almost as if he was saying what he really thought.

Well, at one point during that very informative ‘talk,’ he said, regarding his plan to improve the economy,  that he wouldn’t have to do anything at all. He said that just his winning the election would be enough to create more jobs. (Mitt was referring to what Paul Krugman calls the ‘confidence fairy’) You know, instant job creation.  That’s what happens whenever a conservative-Republican, pro-business, pro-growth, tax-cutting supply-sider with a hawkish foreign policy comes into office. Just like it did when the Bush/Cheney administration got elected. Remember?

So, I can see a strong argument that LaRouche is less ridiculous than Mitt.

But what about that pig? The big fat stupid smelly fucking pig?

Ok, you got me. Mitt Romney was the most ridiculous presidential candidate in American history, except for Rush Limbag – I mean the pig. (I don’t know why I thought of Rush Limbag. My apologies to the pig.)

Has any other candidate ever changed positions so drastically so often and on so many issues as Mitt? How many times have we seen the tapes of Mitt issuing a clear and unambiguous position only to see another tape where he states the exact opposite position?  The only thing I can think of which surpasses Mitt's penchant for contradicting himself would be his complete willingness to make false statements.

All politicians bullshit and Obama is no exception, but I would love for someone to tabulate all the false statements Mitt has made during his political career and see if anyone else has even come close. I'd wager that his world record total would be as untouchable as DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak. He's the Lance Armstrong of political bullshit.

He's incorporated every off the wall, completely wrong, right-wing talking point in the book as part of his political rhetoric. In one of the most amazing ironies in political history, the Republicon Party nominated a former Governor who is the first politician to implement the very healthcare plan that practically all of his fellow Republiconservatives describe as an oppressive, overreaching big-government takeover of healthcare that violates the Constitution. .

Here's a more accurate description of Romney/Obamacare from a previous post of mine:

“So the Dems gave up and decided to settle for a piece of garbage (a wasteful taxpayer subsidy to a seriously flawed private health insurance system) that is based on a plan devised by the Heritage Foundation, a longstanding bastion of Conservatism.
That's right; Obamacare is the brainchild of Conservatism.
This plan, including the individual mandate, was used by Republicans in the 90's as a counter to Hillarycare.
It was endorsed by numerous conservatives including Gingrich.
And of course Romney adopted it for Massachusetts.”

Click here: How the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank, Promoted the Individual Mandate - Forbes

So, what was originally an honest attempt by conservatives to address the problem of millions of uninsured Americans (while preserving a free market model of insurance by introducing the Individual Mandate) is now vilified by the crazies on the right as Obama’s ultimate act of totalitarian liberal-socialism.

Oh, hey, did you notice that Romney is now proposing the public option for Medicare?                  
According to conservatives, the public option was supposed to result in the end of life as we know it.

But what does this say about the Republicons who nominated this guy in the first place? And what about all those Republiconservative nuts who see Obamacare as a Stalinesque act of big-government freedom-crushing oppression, even though it was concocted by conservatives and supported by Republicons in the past? 
How are they able to brush these facts aside? How are they unable to recognize the idiocy of this thinking?

Well, idiotic thinking is one of the primary symptoms of Obama Derangement Syndrome.

Then there’s Mitt the ‘job creator.’ Have you read David Stockman’s brilliant article on Romney, Bain Capital and job creation in the Oct 22 issue of Newsweek? Stockman was Reagan’s budget director and as a private equity investor himself, knows this business well. Here’s how he summed up Romney’s tenure at Bain:

“Bain did considerably better, of course, but the reason wasn’t business acumen. The secret was leverage, luck, inside baseball, and the peculiar asymmetrical dynamics of the leveraged gambling carried on by private equity shops... Needless to say, having a trader’s facility for knowing when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em has virtually nothing to do with rectifying the massive fiscal hemorrhage and debt burdened private economy that are the real issues before the American electorate. Indeed, the next President’s overriding task is restoring national solvency—an undertaking that will involve immense society-wide pain, sacrifice, and denial, and that will therefore require ‘fairness’… And that’s why heralding Romney’s record at Bain is so completely perverse. The record is actually all about the utter unfairness of windfall riches obtained under our anti-free market regime of bubble finance.”

Isn't that lovely? And if you think that these kinds of "job creators" pay too much in taxes, don't worry because if Romney gets elected the Republicons will drop the capital gains rate to zero! Yeah!