Documentary reveals Clueless, Delusional Romney unfit for high office [View all]
The new Romney documentary is a touching portrait of a man who thought, on election night, that he was going to win. For real.
Boo Hoo. How affecting. And supposedly a reason to think better of the man.
Wha? That is right up here with a documentary about how crestfallen George W. Bush was to find that Iraq had no WMD.
Or the film NEBRASKA, where a semi-senile Bruce Dern is told that, despite the deceptive wording of the junk mail, he didn't actually win the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.
Yes, it would be sad to see a movie about a mentally disabled adult finding out, late in life, that Santa Claus is not real. But if that heart-breaking footage was of someone on the verge of becoming the fucking PRESIDENT it would be more than sad. It would be terrifying.
Consider what it tells us about Romney that he thought he was going to win, and what that portended for a Romney presidency...
The only way to have thought, on election day, that Romney was going to win was to deny all of the ample rational evidence, believe in a lunatic conspiracy theory wherein the notorious communist media faked poll after poll, and credit demented wing-nut lies and fancies on freakazoid websites and in vanity propaganda rags like American Spectator and such.
To believe Mark Levin types, Dick Morris types... professional liars and loons who claim things like death panels, black helicopters and Obama being born in Kenya, in preference to all legitimate evidence.
Not putting on a brave face, but actually believing it. To be subject to total self-delusion through being cocooned with wing-nut yes-men. Men who believe that "real" science proves that global warming is a hoax, that the jury is out on evolution, that increasing wealth inequality creates jobs... who believe CRAZY THINGS that one can only believe by dismissing all rational voices as elements of a left-wing conspiracy.
It is FRIGHTENING that a man coming close to command of our armed forces actually believed, for real, in his heart, in a tabloid echo-chamber fantasy.
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