New York Mag has a (Romney) cover this week that will have the DNC drooling for days.

[kpete]

New York Mag has a cover this week that will have the DNC drooling for days. Beyond the cover, the piece by Benjamin Wallace-Wells goes after Romney's wealth and background in as a Master of the Universe.



“Corporations!” a man cried out from the midst of the crowd. Romney was halfway through his next sentence, but he stopped and pivoted, noticing the hecklers, one of whom (it turned out) was a 71-year-old former Catholic priest from Des Moines. Morality incarnate. “Corporations!” a heckler cried again.

Romney grinned. “Corporations are people, my friend,” he said, neatly, flatly, and looked back to the crowd, eager to press on. Suddenly there were loud objections coming from all over, catcalls and cries of disbelief. But the cameras detected a splash of interest on Romney’s face.

“Of course they are,” Romney said, and he began to explain his logic. “Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to ­people. So—” Another heckler started ­ostentatiously laughing, a kind of mock disbelief. The candidate tried another tack. “Where do you think it goes?” Romney said. “In their pockets!” someone cried out.

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The "corporations are people" incident, in retrospect, did less to peg Romney as a creature of privilege than it did to reveal something deeper. For Romney, the corporation has long been an object of a certain idealism. It is something he has spent much of his adult life—first as a management-strategy consultant, then as CEO of the private-equity firm Bain Capital—working to perfect, to strip of its inefficiencies until it might function as a perfectly frictionless economic unit.

MORE: http://nymag.com/news/politics/mitt-romney-2011-10/
http://www.americablog.com/2011/10/mitt-romney-1-economy.html

[opihimoimoi]

1. "Next!!!" This dude is Toast

[Walk away]

2. Is this not a good thing? Shouldn't we all be happy?

I know the DNC is hated here at Democratic Underground but shouldn't they be happy and is that bad? Maybe I don't understand you.

[libodem]

3. I think it's the DLC

That everyone hates. And it has been more or less abandoned.

[JoeyT]

9. Not so much abandoned as renamed.

Over and over and over. I think they're calling themselves "No Labels" now.

[WinkyDink]

5. The problem is semantic: "drooling" has a negative connotation.

[tblue37]

7. That's the point--the DNC will be very happy about the cover. (So am I.)

It make Romney look like what he is--a super wealthy, clueless corporate tool.

[Pirate Smile]

4. You know that is going to end up in ads. Love it!

[Sal Minella]

6. He made it very apparent that he did NOT like being in Iowa.

Obviously, he has better things to do than hang around with people who actually get their hands dirty making a living. He considers himself much, much better than us.

Notice that Mitty didn't bother to attend the most recent Klown Kar Konvocation (aka Republican debate) held in Iowa -- commitments in New Hampshire prevented him from attending.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

8. That's great

Too bad we've had even worse to throw at Repigs, and somehow they find ways to get elected.