Saturday, July 28, 2012

The $10,000 Question (With Update)

Joan Walsh asks whether Romney's catastrophic trip to London is evidence of something more than an odd personal style or a strong feeling of entitlement on Mitt's part:
I’ve found myself wondering over the course of the campaign whether Romney has some kind of personality disorder, so dissociated does he occasionally seem from the well-worn routines of normal human interaction. Maybe we should be asking to see his medical records and not just his tax returns. I don’t mean to be flippant about that or insensitive to any kind of problem he may struggle with. But his struggles are our struggles; he’s running to be our president. There is something very odd about Mitt Romney.
Maybe Mitt is relying too much on his campaign advisers and not enough on his gut, and that is why he is acting strangely. Didn't Al Gore have a similar problem when he ran in 2000?

UPDATE:  Perhaps Romney is in fact suffering from a personality disorder.  My theory that he might be relying too much on his advisers during this overseas trip does not seem to hold water given these facts:
Romney’s top political advisers stayed home, though chief strategist Stuart Stevens flew to London to join the entourage Friday. The only senior communications aide on the ground to help Romney navigate the public-relations controversy that erupted following the Olympics readiness comments he made Wednesday to NBC News was press secretary Andrea Saul.
And by the way, the Cock Koch Brothers now believe (apparently) that climate change is real and it is man-made. Too bad they didn't come to that conclusion 12 years ago, when we could've done something about it.

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