by Ripley
It seems His Highness, The King Of Bain, has stepped in it again, in his usual dramatic fashion. To be honest, the Romney campaign has been such a complete parade of horseshitty near-slogans and self-defense against the marauding hordes of facts up to this point, that I can't say I'm surprised they decided to whip out the Foreign Policy Penis and wave it around at juuust the wrong time. ("We're super concerned about the, uh... the thingy over there with the whatsamawhosits, and Obama sucks! Naaaailed it!") Fuck America's Life, amirite, kids? (That's 'FAL' or 'fal', if you want to start using it on the Facebook and the Twatster and cellular phone text messages to your friends and family.)
I was going to post a post on the 2012 Eastwood Debacle, pointing to an article about how Romney personally took a hand in the stage design and blabbity flibbity of all the RNC goings-on, but I couldn't find the article I was thinking about. Regardless, it got me to thinking today...
We all know how Bain Capital and Bain Capital Ventures and Bain ShakalakaWhammoThere'sSomeMoney!!, LLC earned their money made their money created such immense profits for itself over the years: Buy. Leverage. Take the money and run! And we all know how Romney 'rescued' the Salt Lake City US Winter Olympics. You remember the [shit, what year was it?] Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, right? Because people are still talking about it and how awesome it was? Anyhoo...
It just got me to wonderin'... do we really have any proof that Mitt Romney is some kind of business genius? We don't, at least not that I can think of. For fuck's sake, George W. Bush was a "CEO President" with an MBA and a pocketful of daddy issues dreams, and look how that turned out for the world. Seriously, to Hell with the tax returns, I honestly don't believe Mitt Romney has Clue #1 about how to make an honest living or lead a company successfully.
Think about it - the Romney Campaign doesn't have to produce a tangible product or provide a physical service to anyone. It's literally a PR/Marketing/Advertising business. And the fucking President/CEO of the 'company' is tripping over his own dick so often he needs a helmet and mouthguard to make sure he doesn't ruin his beautiful smile for the next photo shoot. Mitt Romney is the god damned Lindsay Lohan of national politics right now, and we're supposed to believe he has the smarts to "turn America around" and teach the world to sing? The guy's an ineffectual middle-management suck up with a Bush complex and too much time and money on his hands.
I don't care much for John McCain, but McCain's been through some shit and his grudge is vaguely righteous enough that you could almost understand, if not support, his somewhat anti-hero aspirations. Romney's the spoiled little shit who never showed up for practice and had his Daddy call the Principal to demand a varsity letter for football. And I'll bet you he was equally "effective" as a business leader. Did Bain make a profit? Sure, obviously. Where are the successful companies and successful employees that were sucked up into those Bain deals?
I don't know... guess I'm just astonished and rambling today. America, WTF, yeah?
Rip -
PS - Mother Ripley passed away last month, at 92, so I've been preoccupied and haven't had much time or ambition to post here. She spent her life as a professional healer and teacher; raising two amazing, independent and strong daughters and one rascally son (ahem!). Our family was comfortably lower-middle class, we never went hungry, we had spectacular opportunities for small town kids, and for all the grief I gave my parents with my black sheep ways, they never gave up on me or let me down. She was truly one of those people you could call a "force of nature" and she went 24/7/365 until her health began to fail, and even then gave everything she had to make her family happy and comfortable. I'm not sure she'd much appreciate my rabble rousing on the computer-boxes over the last several years, but she'd appreciate that my opinion is mine, and she would never turn me away for speaking my mind (though she could do with a little less cussin').
I apologize for the personal and OT postscript, but I feel like the WF family is family. I read the site every day because CIVILITY! or some such bullshit. What? I thought a brother could let his hair down in this joint, right?