Matt Taibbi: Romney is so insincere & calculating & soulless it physically offends OTHER POLITICIANS

[highplainsdem]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/romney-bombs-and-other-thoughts-on-the-charleston-debate-20120120

I was astonished to wake up this morning and read, in this morning's Wall Street Journal, this assessment of Romney's performance: "Mitt Romney turned in one of his strongest debate performances, defending his business record and laying into President Barack Obama as aggressively as he has in any previous debate."

I don't know Journal writers Patrick O'Connor or Neil King, so I can't say for sure if they were there last night, but if they were, were they watching the same event as the rest of us? I thought Romney was a disaster and last night very nearly achieved the impossible: sharing a stage with Newt Gingrich and looking like the bigger asshole.

To me, the exchange where he fell overboard mid-answer and had to ask moderator John King what the question was ("But you asked me an entirely different question?&quot came close to being an Ed Muskie moment.

The most interesting part of seeing these guys up close is seeing the way people like Rick Santorum and Gingrich respond to Romney in person: They appear to find him physically repulsive, their noses even scrunching up at him when they address him, like cops opening up a trunk with a body in it. And I think it's real, I don't think it's an act. Romney is so totally insincere and calculating and soulless, it physically offends other politicians. It's incredible to watch.

Boldface emphasis added (but that's Taibbi's emphasis on "other politicians&quot .

[FSogol]

1. Romney "nearly achieved the impossible: sharing a stage with Newt & looking like the bigger asshole"

[smokey nj]

10. .....

[Enrique]

2. he got jeered

he gave about the lamest-ass answer to the question about releasing his tax returns, followed by the awkwardest chuckle he could have done if he'd tried, and then the audience fucking booed him. The WSJ is obviously in the tank for Romney, which makes all the sense in the world.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Bootlicker Halperin called Romney the "least folksy" politician

he has ever seen this morning. That's like calling him a serial killer on the Halperin scale of Establishment suck-up.

[highplainsdem]

4. "That's like calling him a serial killer on the Halperin scale" -- LOL! Agreed.

[joeybee12]

5. KNR...the dog on the car roof did it for me...Mittens IS soulless.

[Zalatix]

6. Offends other politicians? Why? Because they're JEALOUS of him?

All those Republicans up there wish they were Romney. They wish they had bled companies dry like Romney and made money like he did.

If any of them get into office they will do all the same things Romney wants to do.

They're not mad because Romney is calculating and soulless. All these guys are cold, calculating and soulless, especially when it comes to the poor and working class. They're only mad because Romney is more financially successful at being calculating and soulless. He's an alpha devil among a bunch of beta devils.

[stillwaiting]

8. +99; You better believe that's the truth! nt

[TheKentuckian]

9. Point taken but there is some truth to his offensive levels of used car salesman bred with Mr Potter

phoniness and will o the wind belief system.

You know it is bad when you are too fake for the GOP rank and file, who lurves them fake moralists, fake cowboys, and above all chickenhawk fake ass war heros.

[hifiguy]

7. How in the name the great bird of the galaxy

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can someone be so cosmically repellent as to offend Newt Gingrich? The mere fact that Mittens can provoke that reaction from one of the foulest pieces of shit to walk the earth this side of DicKKK Cheney borders on science fiction.