GOP Animus Outed

I concur with the GOP's unofficial ministry of propaganda that Mitt Romney is, at best, a sub-optimal Presidential candidate.

However, Mitt Romney's metastasizing campaign says more about the message than the messenger. The oft overlooked story of the 2012 election cycle is this:

Once the animus and vitriol of today's GOP party slithers into public scrutiny, whether by words or deeds, we find the GOP vision for the country is wholly unpopular.

Scott Brown's staffers making war whoops and tomahawk chops in apparent
reference to challenger Elizabeth Warren's Cherokee heritage

From Todd Akin's inexplicable legitimate rape statement to Scott Brown's campaign staffers tomahawk chopping to belittle their opponent's claim to ethnic origin -- these egregiously insensitive, tone-deaf spectacles are not gaffs. Rather, they are the unvarnished expression of:

The GOP's regressive, hate-filled, anti-people world view

Few would argue that the GOP has been hijacked by wing nut nincompoops like Grover Norquist and Paul Ryan, whose political philosophy and vision for the country, by definition, exclude the best interests of large blocks of voters (e.g., women, seniors, students, Latinos, gays, etc.).

The GOP animus has been outed in 2012.

It is not so much that "Thurston Howell" Romney is a coin-operated doofus, as it is that the GOP's vision does not serve a majority of the people.

REFERENCES

• Wikipedia (8/19/2012). Todd Akin 'legitimate rape' and pregnancy comment controversy.
• YouTube Video (9/22/2012), Scott Brown staffers do "Indian war whoop", "tomahawk chop".

Arms Are The New Cleavage

Has there ever been a more eloquent First Lady? Intelligent and heart-felt, Michelle Obama's 2012 DNC opening night speech was one for the ages.

Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like a Bee

Without mentioning her husband's opponent by name, the much beloved first lady defined presidential hopeful Mitt Romney as a man who was born on third base, but thinks he's hit a triple.

Favorite Michelle Obama Convention Quotes

• "...these issues aren’t political—they’re personal. Because Barack knows what it means when a family struggles."

• "If you are fortunate enough to get an education and be successful, you don't slam the door on the others behind you."

• "How hard you work matters more than how much you make; helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself."

• "I have seen firsthand that being President doesn’t change who you are. No, it reveals who you are."

• "...success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the differences you make in people’s lives."

Favorite Convention Tweet

On Michelle Obama's chiseled physique:

Arms are the new cleavage
— Kim Bondy

Favorite Convention Picture

The Obamas watching the First Lady's DNC Convention Speech

Mitt Gaffe-ney?

Corporations are people, my friend

Many find Presidential candidate Mitt Romney petulant and secretive about his personal income, but at least the US electorate has a compendium of public statements to gather insight into his character:

• Corporations are people, my friend…of course they are. (August 2011)
• I like being able to fire people who provide services to me. (January 2012)
• I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. (January 2012)
• He [President Obama] says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It's time for us to cut back on government and help the American people. (June 2012)
• Let Detroit Go Bankrupt (Romney's New York Times op-ed 2008)
• I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this [automotive] industry's come back. (May 2012)
• You can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye - i.e., if GM, Ford and Chrysler got a government bailout (Romney's New York Times op-ed 2008)
• I'll tell you what, ten-thousand bucks? $10,000 bet? (December 2011) - Romney's wager following disagreement with Rick Perry about health care.
• I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed. (2011) --- speaking to unemployed people in Florida (Romney's net worth is over $200 million). 
• [My wife] drives a couple of Cadillacs. (February 2012 in Michigan) 
• I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love. (January 2012)

Mitt, the Presidential candidate, has become a fount of tone-deaf gaffes. Mr. Romney seems like an automaton with intractable bugs in his communication software.

If elected, Romney hopes to further the interests of the 1%. The rest of...he'd like to fire. Evidence from his campaign suggest he will gleefully abandon the interests of the other 99%.

Question to @MittRomney on Twitter:

If corporations are people, what kind of a parent would name their kid Lockheed or Northrup Grumman?