tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post8744613147881331679..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-55031264117613414962012-09-21T13:59:19.695-04:002012-09-21T13:59:19.695-04:00Nailed it, Steve.
@stellaaaa: Yup, this. And not ...Nailed it, Steve.<br /><br />@stellaaaa: Yup, this. And not only is he entitled to the presidency--we should consider ourselves lucky that he's running (as Ann says). Tom Hiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17575511424823512042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-1383094783324644762012-09-21T12:57:18.143-04:002012-09-21T12:57:18.143-04:00There may also be some "avenging the father&q...There may also be some "avenging the father" involved with Romney's ego, as he may harbor some lingering resentment for how his dad was derailed from a promising path to the presidency by the "brainwashing" comment.<br /><br />But I think, for the most part, it's simply pragmatic plutocrat assholery that drives Willard. He's seen the difference that the presidency makes in advancing plutocratic interests. He wants more of that, much more.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10944458838509326421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-30859811705316378582012-09-21T11:56:29.243-04:002012-09-21T11:56:29.243-04:00I think his resentment stems from a core belief th...I think his resentment stems from a core belief that he is, wait for it, entitled to be the President. He is the golden boy of his universe. He was promised by the echo chamber that is his life that he would make a great President. His path to greatness was paved by all his admirers. From the days of the bullying in school, to college, onward, the echo chamber of sycophants convinced him of his greatness. Furthermore, being a Mormon, he is convinced as a male, a Bishop, Prophet and on the path to being a god in the afterlife, being President is a given.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-73529560888250120862012-09-21T11:10:24.968-04:002012-09-21T11:10:24.968-04:00Exactly, Kathy.Exactly, Kathy.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-29774601262355308462012-09-21T10:57:26.048-04:002012-09-21T10:57:26.048-04:00I keep coming back to a New York Times article (I ...I keep coming back to a New York Times article (I think) from 2008 that chronicled the other candidates' dislike for Romney. It wasn't just professional competitiveness; they despised him on a personal level. If he can't buddy up with people who should be his ideological brothers, why would voters like him?Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10651455277401911296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-31798232401598677132012-09-21T10:35:12.525-04:002012-09-21T10:35:12.525-04:00"Most of us when we do a caddish thing harbo..."Most of us when we do a caddish thing harbour resentment against the person we have done it to, but Roy's heart, always in the right place, never permitted him such pettiness. He could use a man very shabbily without afterward bearing him the slightest ill-will."<br /><br />—Somerset Maugham, <i>Cakes and Ale</i>Rand Careagahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04993454654652802173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-58447993291910718552012-09-21T06:12:23.912-04:002012-09-21T06:12:23.912-04:00Mitt was born very well off.
Nixon WAS born a poo...Mitt was born very well off.<br /><br />Nixon WAS born a poor, black child - ok, not black, but he carried more resentment than many black people who were born poor.<br /><br />It was always Nixon v. World.<br />I can see the reason for Nixons various psychosis and neurosis.<br /><br />I don't know where Mitt's resentment comes from, except that the things he felt entitled to have come fairly easily, but not easily enough.<br /><br />He could defeat any problems by throwing money at them. <br />Sometimes his, sometimes he had to reach out for the government to help him. And he became a master at having the government come and pick up after him.<br /><br />But in politics, FSM only knows why he wanted to be a politician, he's so bad at being one, except that's the only way you can become President, which he feels he's entitled to be - to 'the The White House born.'<br />But you can't buy the Presidency directly - you can only buy it by throwing money around AND pandering to "The Help" for votes.<br /><br />It ain't just the 47% - I think he finds everyone contemptible, except for his family and his fellow Plutocrats.<br /><br />How dare he not win the Presidency by acclaim!Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-89011341099603667002012-09-21T00:15:31.458-04:002012-09-21T00:15:31.458-04:00I've felt the same for years now as I watched ...I've felt the same for years now as I watched this loser get more and more bitter as his prospects faded in the clear light of the voters' considered appraisal.<br /><br />He strikes me as a spoiled baby who never actually got what he really wanted from Mommy and Daddy: respect for being the douche bag he is.<br /><br />Nice reporting!Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com