Charles Pierce, Esquire: Mitt Romney, Trust-Fund Bully (and Not Just in School)

[highplainsdem]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/mitt-romney-bully-8732543

Nobody who watched him use Massachusetts as a stepladder to where he is today can be surprised that, today, we have two garish examples of the fact that, for all his success in business and his well-manicured family raised on his well-manicured lawns, Romney is essentially an entitled fopdoodle who divides the world into two classes, Himself and The Help, and who is running for president because his golden life has taught him the essential lesson that there is nothing in the world he can't charm and/or money-whip into his pocket if he really, really wants it. First, there's the revelation that he was something of a bully back in prep school:

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And, if you want to see what happens when some cheap little trust-fund Flashman grows up without any experience that ameliorates his inbred feeling that the world owes him its fealty, check out the interview with the local reporter in Colorado, whom Romney treats as though she's brought him the wrong vintage after a hard day's work firing the grubworms:

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The Globe series — which I encourage everybody to go back and read, if you can't get your hands on the updated version of it published this year as The Real Romney — is replete with episodes just like this. There's the account of his confrontation with a guy named Ken Bullock, who was the executive director of the Utah League Of Cities And Towns when Romney was bull-goosing the 2002 Winter Olympics. Bullock had the presumption to believe that he had some sort of stake in keeping an eye on the state's $59 million investment in the Games. At one point, Romney wanted to defer the repayment of the $59 million.

"You don't want me as an enemy," Romney reportedly told Bullock.

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[FSogol]

1. Awesome, K & R. n/t

[xchrom]

2. du rec. nt

[monmouth]

3. Who vetted this guy I mean, really...n/t

[rhett o rick]

4. What do you mean? He fits the Republican preferred profile perfectly.

If we are going to have an aristocracy we need aristocrats. Bush/Cheney arent aristocrats, but Romney fits the bill.

[monmouth]

7. Well, when you put it that way....LOL..n/t

[freshwest]

9. +1,000

[cali]

5. I can't stop laughing. Mitt Fopdoodle

thanks for posting, now I'm off to read the whole thing.

[hifiguy]

6. No one brings the smart snark like Charlie Pierce.

Nobody. He is required daily reading for me. A treasure of the intertubes, he is.

[MH1]

8. "He is casually vicious and he doesn't even recognize that he is. " - nails it. nt.

[PatSeg]

10. Definitely nailed it

For Mitt it is like breathing.

[rhett o rick]

14. He is a definate sciopath while Cheney seems closer to a psychopath. nm

[highplainsdem]

17. Yes.

[southernyankeebelle]

11. Karma baby karma. You treat people like shit and it will come back hard at ya. Watch out

Mittens people don't like you. The truth will get out.

[rhett o rick]

15. As a true sociopath, he wont care. nm

[zentrum]

12. Romney is one of those

...good-looking sociopaths. People think that sociopaths are spottable by their drooling.

No, the most successful ones look like Romney, understand they have to manifest a certain social charm, and have ruthless, unempathic histories, just like he does. This type over-populates Wall Street and corporate culture.

[Buns_of_Fire]

13. Fopdoodle, n: 1. A stupid or insignificant fellow; a fool; a simpleton.

And here I thought it meant "a self-important, privileged prick."

Oops, my bad. That's the definition for "Romney."

[fascisthunter]

16. Yup... that sums him up: Trust Fund Bully

boy with a silver spoon sticking out of his ass.