Here’s a sampling from what has to be one of the dumbest pieces ever to come off the pages of the NRO.
From an evolutionary point of view, Mitt Romney should get 100 percent of the female vote. All of it. He should get Michelle Obama’s vote. You can insert your own Mormon polygamy joke here, but the ladies do tend to flock to successful executives and entrepreneurs. Saleh al-Rajhi, billionaire banker, left behind 61 children when he cashed out last year. We don’t do harems here, of course, but Romney is exactly the kind of guy who in another time and place would have the option of maintaining one. He’s a boss. Given that we are no longer roaming the veldt for the most part, money is a reasonable stand-in for social status. Romney’s net worth is more than that of the last eight U.S. presidents combined. He set up a trust for his grandkids and kicked in about seven times Barack Obama’s net worth, which at $11.8 million is not inconsiderable but probably less than Romney’s tax bill in a good year. If he hadn’t given away so much money to his church, charities, and grandkids, Mitt Romney would have more money than Jay-Z.
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He was the guy who fired you. He was a boss, like his dad, and like his sons probably will be. Barack Obama was never in charge of anything of any significance until the delicate geniuses who make up the electorate of this fine republic handed him the keys to the Treasury and the nuclear football because we were tired of Frenchmen sneering at us when we went on vacation. Obama made his money in part through political connections…and by authoring two celebrity memoirs, his sole innovation in life having been to write the memoir first and become a celebrity second. Can you imagine Barack Obama trying to pull off a hostile takeover without Rahm Emanuel holding his diapers up for him? Impossible.
I’m out of adjectives to describe these idiots. If you wish to read the rest of the NRO piece, be aware it might do a number on your head. It’s that unbelievably stupid.
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Who, pray tell, is the moron who wrote this? I can’t go look – I’m afraid it will infect my PC.
PERFECT ENDING!!! to one of the most curious, sad, repulsive pieces of print “journalism” I’ve ever read.
I’ll leave the disparaging references for someone else to address.
I envision this pitiable author, brainwashed by his early learning, sitting hunched over his computer, excited merely by writing about a man of great wealth, eyes wide, adoration flowing through his mind (or other parts) to the page, imagining himself…but wait…do I detect the ENVY they project onto US…or is it merely hero worship?
I’m reminded of my adolescence when the Middle Class was truly coming into its own, upward mobility was palpable, a bigger house and a more expensive car were visible means that your “status”, and thereby your “worth” had improved…America was hypnotized by Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous…striving was the goal…
For some, this continues to be the defining element of their lives…I’m forever grateful I’ve learned there is SO MUCH MORE to life, happier now with my modest share and grateful for the richness I find in “less”.
Amen,Carol! Maybe there’s something intrinsically wrong with me, but I’ve never been impressed by people whose driving pursuit in life is to acquire wealth, and the power which accompanies it. I am more attracted to people who are satisfied with their own ability to make this world a better place for all of humanity, even if it’s just helping another person who needs assistance. And I cannot see Mitt Romney having ANY empathy for women, because it seems he puts them in a lower niche than the one he occupies, in his own mind. He is so out of touch with the 99% of this country.
Amen times 2 Carol and MomCatol9!
I agree with you both.
They not only LIKE money, they WORSHIP money. Money, and anyone who has it, is not only blessed by god, but has BECOME their god. Sick….that’s all I can say…..and sad.
You have pretty much hit it on the head ladies.
Wow, Mario you have a very strong stomach and a brave heart to have been able to get through this “article” by Kevin D. Williamson. I hope that I never, ever hear from him again. I don’t even want to hear his name again. It makes me believe in that old Chinese cures “you should live in interesting times”. I know that curse can apply to most periods in history, but living in this era is unusual, I think.
We have made such strides in science and there are opportunities for education in every field that our parents and grandparents could only wrack their minds in wonder about. Instead of soaking it all up and pushing for more, so very many of us, have become lazy minded and indolent, wanting others not only to do our thinking for us, but to create our dreams and sell them back to us. The Romneys of this world and those who worship them, like this author, are pitiful creatures and a serious danger to us all, I think. They would take the beauty and joy out of our lives and turn us all into commodities.
P.S. When you hear the republicans saying over and over, at the convention, that Romney is “a good family man” (so you should vote for him) I will be screaming obscenities, form a short distance away.