Producer Mike Yarvitz finds this old tape of Mitt Romney running for U.S. Senate in 1994, against incumbent Senator Ted Kennedy. Mr. Romney didn't just get that cringe-worthy style yesterday.
"Hi, how are you? Don't run away. I want to shake your hand. I know, you haven't got your makeup on yet, right?" he says to a woman outside a store. "You do, you do."
(Adding: h/t Ben Smith)
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As I said in a post a while ago the reason why Romney comes across this way is because he's never had to work in a customer service or otherwise lower-level position. He doesn't understand how to listen to people and work w/ people on a broad customer basis. He does understand how to work w/ executives: people w/ a specific, similar goal in mind and specific, similar mindset. This means he'd probably make a good Commander in Chief, but a terrible Communicator in Chief.
Hi Mouzer.
So true.
When I think Romney, I think SPD.
A person with schizoid personality disorder:
3 for 3.
Somehow I don't think this has anything to do with work experience.
From Wiki:
Psychopathy is a mental disorder characterized primarily by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness. Psychopaths are highly prone to antisocial behavior and abusive treatment of others, and are very disproportionately responsible for violent crime. Though lacking empathy and emotional depth, they often manage to pass themselves off as average individuals by feigning emotions and lying about their past.
Mike,
Ditto.
The entire GOP presidential lineup is all certifiably nuts, except the ones that are unpopular.
GOP voters are actually rejecting all of the sane ones.
I have never seen anything like this before in my life.
Black Sabbath - Crazy Train
Maybe I should dust off that video editing software. Who thinks I'd get sued for that?
Crazy ideas do not equate to psychopathy. But I would venture that Romney and Gingrich fall under that definition. Bachmann and the rest may say ridiculous things, but that just puts them in the crackpot category. Huntsman and Roemer are the sanest.
Hi Mike
Agree. Romney, Gingrich, and Cain are a bit ... how do you say this ... of questionable reality?
The elevator only reaches the top floor with the unpopular GOP pres. hopefuls.
Somehow I think this says more about Republican voters than the actual candidates.
He may have a mild form of Asperger's Syndrome.
Socially, he can't catch a clue with both hands and a net!
When will people get it through their heads that the USA (and a large part of the world) is in the throes of a hostile take over by private business interests. The GOP presidential nomination process is such a circus because those really running the show (private business) do not really care which one of the GOP candidates becomes president. Regardless of who comes out the winner, they will be a mere puppet. This is much bigger than anyone in the news media is talking about. They already have succeeded with the GOPs (and some democrats) in Congress and with the Supreme Court. The last step is the presidency.