What is your most basic, visceral gut feeling about Mitt Romney?

[TheWraith]

What emotion does he provoke in you? I'm curious, since I realized today that I had a different emotional response to each of the three main Republican primary candidates.

Newt Gingrich inspired hatred--every time the man spoke it made me want to kick him in the balls for being such a lying bastard. Rick Santorum disturbed me, mostly in that somebody that crazy could actually get people to vote for him.

But my most basic reaction to Mitt Romney is basically contempt. He knows nothing, stands for nothing, and thinks he's suited to the hardest job on the planet even though he hasn't the first clue about the real world.

What about the rest of you?

[sadbear]

1. Sociopath

[Egalitarian Thug]

42. That rings my bell!

At least he is not as obviously stupid as the last republicans to run for and hold this office. But I wouldn't trust him to hold my wallet, let alone the future of this nation.

[Bobbie47]

2. fake

[phylny]

74. Me too. n/t

[Raven]

3. Tin Man, Empty Suit, Uncomfortable to

listen to...so I don't.

[goclark]

18. You nailed it --- tin man, empty suit

He has nothing worthwhile to say ever.

Seems to lack a care gene

[elleng]

4. Blah.

[11 Bravo]

5. Disgust, coupled with a healthy measure of contempt.

[hifiguy]

6. A smarmy con man

who is as phony as a three-dollar bill with Tricky Dick Nixon's picture on it.

[Junkdrawer]

7. I want to know what corporate coalition he represents and who his foreign policy,....

economic and environmental advisers are.

[RKP5637]

8. Sociopath and sleazy. n/t

[patricia92243]

9. Before I knew ANYTHING about him, I thought he was smarmy looking. My gut reaction to him n/t

[Marr]

10. Just another son of privilege. Our government and boardrooms are full of them.

[Xipe Totec]

11. Milquetoast nt

[RebelOne]

12. He is a total fake and liar. n/t

[hobbit709]

13. upper class twit.

[Bruce Wayne]

14. I have contempt for his policies, not for him personally.

Hate's toxic; it'll eat you up if you work up to hatred for every politician in the world whose views you happen to disagree with. It sounds like revelling in one's own intolerance. Practicing such reflexive intolerance not only makes you less happy as a human being, it also makes you a less effective citizen-activist.

[dkf]

100. But you get nothing on a visceral level?

I don't hate his policies because I don't know what they are (does he?), but something weird has happened to me on a gut level and yet I don't hate him. I think they call it oogie, but I don't know how to spell it.

Maybe its the hair oil. He needs to get rid of it.

[Bruce Wayne]

105. Interesting. No, nothing gut level. I find him bland.

He's not repulsive like Gingrich or icky like O'Connel or smarmy like Bachmann. If you turn the sound off on them, they still project negative personas. If you turn the sound off on Romney, you have to count the gray hairs just to see whether he's being moderate or conservative

[ZombieHorde]

15. Fake and weak is my gut reaction.

[lpbk2713]

16. He's an elitist weenie.

Clowns like that are really a dime a dozen.

[Speck Tater]

17. He doesn't seem to have any effect at all on my viscera.

Seeing him is like gazing into a bowl of vanilla pudding with some coconut sprinkles mixed in. I don't like it, I don't hate it. I don't give a damn either way. Now Bush Junior, on the other hand, made my bowels clench up tight and left me feeling disgusted and nauseous every time I saw him, so I don't know why Romney evokes such complete apathy in me.

[PlanetBev]

19. Used Car Salesman

Empty suit...would melt down in a real crisis.

[Broken_Hero]

106. Ditto that, nt

[robinlynne]

20. blegh.

[kentuck]

21. Lucky fuck...

"Born on third base and thought he had hit a triple". Ann Richards

If there was a nationwide contest to see what person in America was most out of touch, he would win it hands down...

[Horse with no Name]

22. Creepy dude

the kind that has all kinds of deep dark perverted secrets, a hatchet in the garage, and bodies buried under the gazebo in the backyard.

[jberryhill]

23. For three easy payments....

[uponit7771]

58. +1!

[Lil Missy]

24. phoney, liar, snake oil salesman (and not a good one)

[zappaman]

25. He's a dick. n/t

[MrYikes]

26. He is the enemy.

and is not to be trusted or underestimated. Seeing him evokes determination.

[indepat]

27. That he will treat the old, poor, sick, and infirmed with smug and callous disregard and disrespect

(like we were some unloved and unwanted dog).

[WeekendWarrior]

28. Used Car Salesman. nt

[madokie]

29. You pretty much summed it up for me

[southernyankeebelle]

30. He is a flip flopper. He has no moral compass to say the right thing. You just don't

where is stands on a issue. Who wants a president that doesn't know how to make up his mind.

[NightWatcher]

31. Vapid cult member

[marlakay]

32. Blah

Kind of no feeling…I don't hate the guy…no anger at least yet…sort of a non feeling like there isn't enough substance to the guy to have a feeling about him!

[hlthe2b]

33. Mitt Romney: Liar... and, yes, instills great contempt

both for his obvious belief that he is superior and entitled, but most definitely because I'd never trust him for a moment. (and I REALLY resent that he makes me agree with FREEPERS in that respect)


Newt: Nasty, nasty piece of work: I've despised him since he once represented the Atlanta area district in which I once lived.

Santorum; stupid, gullible, but dangerous. Yes, to think anyone would be swayed by this man, scares me a great deal

[trof]

34. Agree with your last paragraph.

His election (never happen) would be a boon for Big Biz and corporations.
Not so much for EPA and other 'regulators'.

I really don't know why he wants the job.
Ego, I guess.
That's what seems to drive most politicians.
More's the pity.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

35. Power Hungry Puppet.

[Whisp]

36. Alien in a human costume.

He still hasn't studied us well enough to pass for one.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

37. cardboard cutout (standee)

[guitar man]

38. I have the feeling

That he is a client of the Hair Club For Men.

[veganlush]

39. just fake. n/t

[PotatoChip]

40. A 'Ken' doll.

Probably anatomically similar anyway.

Whenever my sisters would play w/their Barbies, Ken never had anything of substance to say. Once in awhile he would show up to declare something like, "I'm hungry. What's for dinner?" The Barbies otoh, had elaborate roles with plots and subplots. Ken seemed to spend most of his time at some unknown place of work, or forgotten under a huge pile of Barbie wardrobe changes.

[MrScorpio]

41. The same reaction that I get from fingernails scraping a chalkboard

[vaberella]

43. He lies and he will lie about everything. A more vicious version of Nixon. n/t

[Tveil]

44. A Parody

Almost like he is just a SNL skit about a politician that changes his views every five minutes.

[Canuckistanian]

45. Time share salesman

Will say anything to close the deal.

He doesn't want the steak knives, he's going for the Cadillac.

[nenagh]

46. Interesting...

I don't seem to react to Romney as being human at all...

It seems to me that his many years at Bain Capital separated Romney from any care for his fellow Americans at all.

He comes across as unreal, missing essential parts

[Wait Wut]

47. Apathy.

I get nothing from him. Not hatred, not contempt, not disgust. Just...nothing. I really see him as an empty box. I don't think he's intentionally an ass, I honestly think he doesn't understand humans. He's probably not even a bad guy...just...nothing.

He and his wife are the perfect Stepford couple.

[Tom Ripley]

48. Hollow man

[siligut]

49. Disgust and pity

He is a dupe, but a smug self-serving, sanctimonious dupe.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

50. Chameleon, paper tiger, suck up, who would get owned by foreign leaders in a crisis

[joeybee12]

51. Used car salesman...nt

[erinlough]

52. liar.

[Saphire]

53. Uncomfortable in his own skin. It's like HE doesn't

like Mitt Romney.

[flamingdem]

78. His hips are so stiff

like he doesn't feel anything below the shoulders

[magical thyme]

54. clueless liar creep.

Santorum is a nutcase creep.
Newtie is the pillsbury doughboy alter-ego creep.

They all creep me out.

[Raine]

55. DISGUST, here's a man who has everything but is so uncomfortable in his own skin

that he has to have constant reassurance that he has more than anyone else.

[ecstatic]

56. I cringe when I see Romney

The fakeness, awkwardness etc is just too much!

I view Gingrich with intrigue and amusement, just as I do Donald Trump.

I agree that Santorum is just disturbing.

[jonthebru]

57. That he is made of cardboard and would not taste good if you had to eat him.

[uponit7771]

59. Habitual liar

[Polly Hennessey]

60. Mitt

Is creepy an emotion?

[amandabeech]

61. Animal Abuser!

He has absolutely no compassion for humans or for humans' associates.

RIP Seamus. May you run and sit forever on the other side of the rainbow bridge.

[PearliePoo2]

62. Delusional, phony, plastic and creepy. That "heh, heh, heh" laugh of his weirds me out.

I don't trust anyone who belongs to a wacko cult religion, wears magic underwear and baptizes dead people.
Oh....and strapping Seamus to the car roof?? Fuck you Mittens and Fuck you Ann for allowing it.

[Zorra]

63. Who's that? nt

[Initech]

64. Anger - a guy who made his fortune ruining others.

Bain Capital is essentially a legalized grand theft organization that lays off people, bankrupts corporations, and laughs all the way to the bank - they are the dirtiest of dealers.

[SDjack]

65. He doesn't give a shit about anyone, except to make a profit

through buying and selling us. That continued, accelerated approach will not cure America's problems.

[sinkingfeeling]

66. Phony. He will tie himself in knots trying to 'say' or 'act' in the way you want.

[GentryDixon]

67. He is doing this for the Mormon Church.

It is part of their prophecy.

[siligut]

70. The White Horse Prophecy?

It has been posted here. DUers just don't seem to realize the importance of it in Mitt's candidacy.

[GentryDixon]

71. Yes. Exactly.

[PearliePoo2]

72. Ohhhh....now we're getting somewhere!

The freaking Church. Of course!
Man...I wish we had DU search so I could find the posts.
Well...off to Google....
Thanks!

[cherokeeprogressive]

68. Stumblebum n/t

[H2O Man]

69. Plastic soul.

He makes plastic look authentic.

[FrenchieCat]

73. Used car salesman with Hemorrhoids!

[notadmblnd]

75. A phoney, shallow, materialistic, narcissistic, arrogant liar.

[customerserviceguy]

76. He looks terribly insecure

He tries WAY too hard to be "one of the guys", when he knows he's out of touch with the people whose hands he shakes on the campaign trail, and those are GOP'ers who are themselves out of touch.

Just about all of his gaffes come from that insecurity. It's troubling to think of a person with that kind of hidden inferiority complex would do with the power of the Presidency.

[flamingdem]

77. A control freak about to snap

It will be a DUZY

[TransitJohn]

79. His wooden insincerity and inability to not come off as a caricature of a dime novel politician

It would be funny if it weren't real.

[Major Nikon]

80. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth

-- Gov Ann Richards mixing metaphors at the 1988 Democratic Convention.

[jmowreader]

86. More like a gold foot

The Romneys are probably richer than the Bushes.

[jillan]

81. Fucking liar.

[BigDemVoter]

82. Insipid Lying Swine

[bluestate10]

83. Romney has no moral core.

He has lived a life where he used his born advantages to sacrifice the less fortunate. Romney chose to make maximum profit for himself and a select few when he could have instead chosen to truly build companies that built in america and hired americans. Yet Romney outsourced jobs to massively enrich himself. Romney failed the true test of character, doing what is right when one can chose not to.

[gulliver]

84. Bush Jr. Jr.

Same, exact plan for the country and economy. Same daddy's boy who had his whole life handed to him, but, like Bush, thinks of himself as "successful."

[jmowreader]

85. He's a crook

Many years ago, Hunter Thompson published an "apology" to Richard Nixon in which he said that, so far as he knew, Richard Nixon didn't fuck pigs or sell used cars with cracked blocks, nor was he corrupt beyond the ability of modern man to describe it.

Romney, on the other hand, probably is that bad. This is a man who is believed to owe over $3 million this year in federal income tax on passive income. Which means, if he wasn't tied up in all sorts of tax shelters, he probably really owes $6 million.

They sell a product at Home Depot. It is a green gelatinous mass made to seal lawn tractor tires so the air doesn't run out of them when you hit rocks. When I worked there it was called Slime. It is now called Romney.

[Demonaut]

87. fake

[HappyMe]

88. Sleezy liar.

Untrustworthy snake that's looking at us like we're all little mice.

[deacon]

89. Since he said "hey, i'm unemployed too" I find him vile and a shameless liar. n/t

[pipoman]

90. I wish I could post a pic of a dildo...

[lutefisk]

101. I think the Dildo Post Office would be okay to post...

Not sure if it has the singular visual impact you are looking for, though....

[TheKentuckian]

91. He gives me the creeps more than about any of them.

Out of touch as McShame, smarmy as Cantor, dumb as Palin, gives less of a fuck than Dubya, greedier than Ryan, dishonest as Atwater, snobby as Poppy but more phony than any of them and by a lot with no integrity even within his own shitty context.

He has to be the least trustworthy piece of shit ever shat.

I can't believe he doesn't give more the willies something awful.

I want no golem running anything. Nothing "safe" about a puppet with a compass on whatthefuckever combined with mo money, mo money mo as the prime directive, to my mind.

Plus, since he can at least put on an appearance of not being any particular flavor of fucking loon or obviously stupid as a rock (unless forced to freestyle too much or a lot of exposure), which allows even more time before the crowd gets we are getting fucked over and lied to.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

92. The perfect front man to stage a fascist coup.

He wants the office desperately. He's the physical embodiment of corporate personhood.
Obama is the only thing standing between what was started with Reagan and left unfinished
by bush.

[LiberalEsto]

93. Nasty little weenie nt

[MineralMan]

94. Boredom and disgust, alternately.

Obama will destroy him in the debates. That's one thing of which I'm certain. Romney will probably destroy himself everywhere else.

[etherealtruth]

95. I have no gut reaction to "nothingness"

For me that's a problem ... the "nothingness"

[roamer65]

96. Etch-a Sketch

[varelse]

97. Indifference

I know it's a mistake to write him off as a serious danger to our nation (and the world) but all I feel when I am reminded of his existence is "meh".

In my mind, he's "Meh" Romney.

[backscatter712]

98. Disgust. He's a sociopath and an empty suit. Contempt also works.

He's so phony that I keep imagining that he's a lizard-man wearing a human mask.

[dkf]

99. Disgust. Secondly repulsion.

Smarmy unbelievable say anything con job.

[opihimoimoi]

102. I fully concur..the dude is a fraud....and delusional as well

[Autumn]

103. If I had to be locked in a room with a 10 foot rattlesnake or

Mitt Romney, I would have to go with the rattlesnake. I would just trust the snake more than him.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

104. "You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you?"

[Arugula Latte]

107. Revulsion.

He's so very, very slimey.

[GoCubsGo]

113. Ditto.

I have to hit the mute button every time he comes on. The same goes for his nasty-ass wife.

[adigal]

108. Smarmy...like the guy who tries too hard to be cool

and will do and say anything to be cool. Throw in out of touch because he has something wrong with him that he just cannot read or learn social cues, and you have him.

I wonder about Aspergers? Lots of smart people have it, a mild case, they can't relate to others that well, or read social cues, or learn what not to say to others. The man has had over 6 years to prepare to run for President, and I am always astounded at the stupid, insensitive things he says!! Maybe his wifey-poo has a touch, also.

[Odin2005]

109. Soulless.

[4 t 4]

110. He could

hide his own easter egg!

[Aerows]

111. Smarmy

But what is even more revealing is the look Republicans get on their faces when they realize he's likely to be their candidate. They all get this vaguely pained, constipated look on their faces that suggests they don't enough fiber in their diets.

[spanone]

112. a cheap suit. say anything to get elected politician who feels entitled because of dad