I can't stop marveling at rMoney's monumental arrogance

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120. LOVE YOUR POST!!! "American voters have ways of shutting that thing down." ROFL!!!!!

Jam it back down their throats. Jam it ALL back down their throats!

Just really love this, libdem4life!

"I've known CEOs and Mitt isn't one of them or fit to polish their shoes (female, as well as males). He is a two-bit flim-flam person that cheated (got dirty money from South America), laundered (said money), lied (whenever necessary), bullied (pretty much everyone around him), preened (Bishop Romney) and acted like a financial pig with lipstick."

I think this theory is spot-on. mittski has breathed such rarified air for all his life - ALL his life. Everyone's been plenty well-aware of his "rank" throughout his life. Born into wealth, privilege, and power. Grew up with a deep-seated longing to prove how Alpha-male he was - even over his father. We saw that ethic at play in throughout last decade, with bush-junior's "outshine-my-dad-the-president" complex. john mcsame had the same thing in 2008. With him - it was "outshine-all-the-admirals-in-my-family." Unfortunately, bush-junior never had to learn this lesson. mcsame-junior did, and romney-junior WAY did.

My guess is, wrongney's bullying behavior was never checked, and on the contrary, was rewarded and reinforced. VASTLY, OBSCENELY-RICHLY rewarded and reinforced, if you ask me. I bet ol' mittski turns out to be something of a Billionaire if ever we're able to find out the entire truth. I suspect that because of his wealth and privilege and status, prominent family, obvious monetary success all over the place, most people around him bowed and scraped, and deferred to him just on principle. There's an instinctive urge to fawn over the richest person in the room, or the prettiest/handsomest person in the room, or the most powerful person in the room, because if you can't be on top of the zigurrat, then you aspire to cozy up to whoever is. So never is heard a discouraging word. No one wanted to alienate or otherwise piss off the Alpha. Watch the social-climbing behavior of any group of dogs. Same stuff starts manifesting. Everybody sucks up to the Alpha. I'm the main Alpha at our house because I'm the one who feeds the critters all the time. They ALL suck up to me. No one wants to be too far away or out of favor with the Alpha.

So I bet, business-wise; Mormon church-wise (he was/is a bishop in the church forcryingoutloud); in one state - well, two if you count the whole Utah Olympics thing; throughout his schooling at prestigious academies and universities; he was always a kingpin, or the king outright. Hell, I read something about him recently that described him in the eyes of fellow townsfolk as a "tribal chieftain," arriving with all those kids, sons (male) and their families, he was just always dominant. His extended family alone made up at least a third of the attendance at any local/regional church or community meeting hall. And it goes without saying how, in the private sector, a CEO's word was LAW. You NEVER spoke out of turn or criticized or defied the CEO. Not if you expected to keep your job. And if he was CEO and chief stockholder, well, you'd have no recourse whatsoever. He was god.

So I'll bet this indeed IS the first time he's ever been handed a defeat. It was out of his hands. There weren't enough people to trip, during the foot-race, to make sure he'd win the way it tended to be at family parties and other outdoor celebrations. The man who must always be first to the food and first at table and first finished. All this points to an individual with a complex about the size of the freakin' solar system! And this defeat is equally EPIC-sized. And it's not in some exalted corner office or cushy private conference room, or invitation-only donors' reception. It's all out there on every TV and cable network on the planet in one form or other. It's spectacular exposure - failing on that scale. Especially for an individual who guards his privacy and his secrets as relentlessly as he does. This is WAY WAY WAY public. And his whole life has set him up without a template for handling or, as he'd prefer to put it, managing this.