So...what was David Brooks up to in this article? Seems scathing anti-RMoney....

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/opinion/brooks-the-real-romney.html?smid=tw-nytdavidbrooks&seid=auto

The purpose of the Republican convention is to introduce America to the real Mitt Romney. Fortunately, I have spent hours researching this subject. I can provide you with the definitive biography and a unique look into the Byronic soul of the Republican nominee:

Mitt Romney was born on March 12, 1947, in Ohio, Florida, Michigan, Virginia and several other swing states. He emerged, hair first, believing in America, and especially its national parks. He was given the name Mitt, after the Roman god of mutual funds, and launched into the world with the lofty expectation that he would someday become the Arrow shirt man.

Romney was a precocious and gifted child. He uttered his first words (“I like to fire people”) at age 14 months, made his first gaffe at 15 months and purchased his first nursery school at 24 months. The school, highly leveraged, went under, but Romney made 24 million Jujubes on the deal.

Mitt grew up in a modest family. His father had an auto body shop called the American Motors Corporation, and his mother owned a small piece of land, Brazil. He had several boyhood friends, many of whom owned Nascar franchises, and excelled at school, where his fourth-grade project, “Inspiring Actuaries I Have Known,” was widely admired.


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The Twittersphere is trying to figure out if this is an attempt at humor, discrediting criticism....or saying what he thinks....

curious!

[EC]

1. Well, well, well...

Is this Karma? Brooks is doing to him exactly what Rmoney is doing to President Obama when he fictionalizes Obama's life.

[elleng]

2. AMAZING!

I've thought for some time that Brooks has a soul, and he's proven it here! I also like EC's take (#1,) 'compare and contrast' what repugs do to President Obama.

[Cha]

3. It satire based on the LIES of one Willard Mitt

Romney.

Does it mention his demon barber from hell, chapter?

[GallopingGhost]

4. That was hilarious!

[Puzzler]

5. This may be the start of a MSM trend

I think the MSM is finally sick of Romney and are turning on him.

[Skeptical George]

6. Off his meds again

But don't worry: Dr Ryan will be dropping by to get his mind right again.

[K8-EEE]

7. The problem with Brooks, he is a halfway decent/intelligent person

despite being a CONservative....how can anybody with half a brain cell really buy Romney's Every Guy routine?

It's nauseating and so fake! Romney would have been a million times better off to be The Boss Guy and be an ass like Christie. The Repukes actually LIKE it when people are rude and act like dicks (Trump, Cheney whatever.) His Ozzie Nelson routine is so Fakey Mc Fake Fake! Enough to make you puke, seriously.

[Marsala]

8. Brooks seems bitter

It's either an over-the-top parody of the (accurate) current view of Romney in the public and media, or it's frustration with Romney's recent abandonment of "conservative principles" (which Brooks would like to believe that he had) for Atwater and Rovian style dirty campaigning, practised in the most desperate, thematically incoherent way.

[progressivebydesign]

18. I think it's the latter. And perhaps a response to the ham-handed media relations by the Campaign nt

[limpyhobbler]

9. I don't know but that was funny.

Brooks is a moderate Republican in my estimation. Maybe he's getting ready to jump ship and endorse Obama.

[Sky Masterson]

10. Wowie! Brooks wrote this?!?!!!. I am about to start looking around for pods.

"Mitt helped Ann raise five perfect sons — Bip, Chip, Rip, Skip and Dip — who married identically tanned wives. Some have said that Romney’s lifestyle is overly privileged, pointing to the fact that he has an elevator for his cars in the garage of his San Diego home. This is not entirely fair. Romney owns many homes without garage elevators and the cars have to take the stairs."

[Cosmocat]

11. He IS this big of a joke

and that he is as close in this race to a decent man and pretty darn good president speaks VOLUMES about how jacked up this country is right now.

[CTyankee]

12. I really think Brooks is trying to parody the left's characterization of Romney, trying to make

US look ridiculous. The problem is: it's not really going to work. He's "too clever by half" as the Brits would say. He wanted to look oh, so brilliant in his satire but has left people scratching their heads.

This was an overstep by Brooks. He might just have given up on trying to talk to "us people" and decided to be bitterly slashing in his commentary, just to spite us. But he's really only spiting himself with this column...give it up Brooks...

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. he sure had progressive Tweeters chuckling about his misfire last night!

[CTyankee]

14. What were they tweeting?

[NRaleighLiberal]

15. they were all wondering if it was unintentionally serious, a bad stab at satire, of general WTF!

[CTyankee]

16. I have wondered for some time now about Brooks's mental stability...

there just seems to be something kinda "off" about his articulation of ideas...

[progressivebydesign]

17. If it's real? Then my guess is that SOME journalists are lashing out at the campaign's secrecy.

It's very possible that some journalists who are not on Fox or Breitbart, and tired of being treated like stenographers, and tired of the Campaign refusing to answer questions, and instead putting out some BS fluff. This maybe journalist blowback.

[Sugarcoated]

19. I get the impression Brooks actually likes the President

and, though he's a conservative, dislikes the dishonest stuff and the low road attacks. Brooks is basically a decent guy and not a wingnut.