Mitt the Flip and the Bully Pulpit 2
This week, much of Left Blogistan has taken unholy glee in Mitt the Flip’s short career as a barber. Here is an example.
PoliticalProf thinks that focusing on the details of what happened over four decades ago misses the point. He thinks that the intervening four decades carry a lesson of their own:
In other words, I don’t sense that Mitt Romney has made much effort in his life to understand or even empathize with people who aren’t like him.
In a characteristically long and detailed post well-supported with citations, Chauncey Devega also sees and considers an empathy deficit. A nugget:
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Mitt Romney, prep school bully of the weak and vulnerable, corporate raider bully who takes pleasure in terminating employees, nominee of a political party of bullies and “real Americans,” and he who wants to be President of the United States, has made it abundantly clear that empathy is not a public virtue to be cultivated or encouraged.
Read both posts in full. Though conceived and published separately, they complement each other most eerily.
May 13, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Time to update the moniker. Mitt the Shitt. Viewers at least liked Thurston Howell III on Gilligan’s Island.
May 13, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Thurston Howell III was selfish, but not vicious. The two do not always go together.