Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Grace Notes on the Top Four GOP finishers in the Iowa Caucuses...

Mitt Romney:  A banker and cold selfish wealthy man as well. Ghod help the person who owes Mitt money not with the Former Governor's Swiss watch brain calculating the interest down to the minute. A classic passive aggressive personality he has a SuperPAC to generate his many negative adverts thus keeping his own hands "clean".  His best moments consist of an chilly plastic bonhomnie that impresses only the credulous, Brian McGrory for example.

Rick Santorum: A cruel nasty weasel of a politician, he is a wonderfully irksome toady to those above him and utterly insolent to those below him. A Catholic whose theology largely revolves around punishing those with differing opinions and lifestyle. He is, very much in personality and outlook an authoritarian.

Newt Gingrich: Possibly one of the meanest most vindictive bastards in contemporary US Politics regardless of his pseudo intellectual props, he also loves money like a hog loves slop, and those are his good points.

Ron Paul: Ron Paul is a utopian, a sky-grifter a man with a profound "believing mind". Ghod save us from believers sez I not when the consequences of their ideas ends in a racialized, genderized second rate nation where corporations run amok and the Army is used to guard wombs.

And yet all four of these men, want to run "positive optimistic, idea driven campaigns", or they will as soon as they are done calling each other sonsabitches and screaming for mob rule. Otherwise nothing in their personalities really suggests they can sustain a high toned intellectual debate no matter how much they insist otherwise.

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