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

[sofa king]

159. The most important question was: Antisocial or Narcissistic?

Romney, special guy that he is, appeared to me to meet the criteria for a diagnosis of two disorders from Cluster B of the DSM-IV.

The arrogance and self-delusion which has become visible in the aftermath of his defeat, well, that seems to answer the question in favor of narcissism. A sociopath would have better assessed the probable results of his year of attacks on all the demographics he needed to win.

So, in the end, we find that Mitt Romney was more of a GWB-style loser than a Dick Cheney-style loser, with a key difference being Romney is far less indolent and far less willing to be controlled than GWB was. GWB wanted the title and the respect it affords; Romney wanted that and total, personal control, as Dick Cheney did. He would have combined the worst aspects of both of those awful people.

We can guess that a Romney Presidency would have followed most of the major down-turns that the Bush Administration did: the stock market would have tanked because investors would have foreseen years of economic chaos as Romney's favorites were rewarded to the detriment of everyone else; a war would have been ginned up to improve his reelection chances; the international community would have backed away from his Ribbentrop-like promises; his lack of empathy or remorse would have quickly worsened conditions for the least privileged Americans; and Congress would have run rings around him and confined the damage he could do primarily to the Executive Branch (something we learned far too late in the Bush years).

I've been asking myself what kind of madman Romney is because I have constantly wondered why anyone seeking public office would willingly create an obviously false reality, and then change that surreality every day to suit the candidate's short-term goals instead of his long-term ones (like winning).

He wasn't guided by the false morality of a cult because he doesn't give a shit about his religion, either, only the myopic but relentless pursuit and acquisition of unlimited power.