SELFISHNESS - The Underlying Narrative That Will Cause Romney To Lose

[kpete]

TUE AUG 14, 2012 AT 10:17 AM PDT
The Underlying Narrative That Will Cause Romney To Lose
by TomP

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I know Romney gives millions to his church, but the arc of his life is about self, not others.

Most parents tell children to share. My daughter was an only child, but we told her anyway. Certainly most siblings learn to share. It's not the only value, and we still are selfish at times, but it is a core value.

Various levels of this is in us. The central message of the Christian narrrative is self-sacrifice. The central message of the Randian narrative that Romney appears to have lived and Ryan endorsed is self. Just self.

Seen through this lens, no amount of Koch Brothers money will elect Mitt Romney. Regardless of specific issues, the undercurrents of this theme are killing Romney's chances.


MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/14/1120071/-The-Underlying-Narrative-of-the-2012-Campaign-the-Cult-of-Self-v-Compassion-for-Others

[edhopper]

1. Sure

that killed any chance of G W Bush from ever being President.

[nichomachus]

3. Maybe

Romney should have donated millions to the Supreme Court. Then, they could appoint him president like they did Bush.

[nichomachus]

2. Giving millions to your cult can be selfish

It's how you get yourself into a position of power within the structure. Basically it's buying your way in.

[JaneQPublic]

4. GOP = "Greedy Old Plutocrats" (nt)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Maybe. But, the obvious reason he will lose is there aren't enough old white men.

Which is his base. His one, and only, base.

And, a lot of us old white men aren't going to vote for him either.

[bluestateguy]

6. Narrative is a media word

What a narrative really is is a book or short story.

[Poiuyt]

7. The Teabagger's Goddess wrote a book called Virtue of Selfishness

And she was being serious

[DearAbby]

9. Palin has been awful quiet...

like some calm before the storm. They forget she welds a lot of power with the base. Peeve her off and she may turn that camera of hers on and announce to the Grizzly mamma's out there, she is writing in Santorum. Watch the panic begin....Can you imagine the insult of being the VP candidate on the last ticket they are avoiding you this ticket like you're a leper with aids. They are treating you like BUSH, Sarah! You gonna take that sitting down?

[Poiuyt]

11. Oops. I'm sorry - I was referring to Ayn Rand

[Berlum]

8. Unlike the true generous Christianity that Christ taught, Republican Selfishness is

a degenerate form of greed that, as far as any decent folks can surmise, is advocated only by warPed spir ITS like Lou Cipher.

[Avis]

10. Romney bus driver honor student speech

We were disgusted with what he said. What kind of person says "forget about that bus driver etc" My husband wrote an editorial for the paper when our last child graduated, thank the bus driver by name for getting our kids back and forth to school safely in any kind of weather. It made bus drivers smile and it was true, they were important. Both kids had to give graduation speeches, and both were about thanking the community and workers for making that day possible. Amazing that a country thinks that isn't the right thing to do? A friend said to me "his mama didn't teach him the right things, you are supposed to say thank you".