Mitt Romney -- whaddaya think???

[Ben]

His personality type, if true, is usually drawn into business and politics. I should underscore: NOT ALL. But a lot.

[broncofan]

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Just in case anyone's interested! Next on my reading list. A good nonpartisan treatise on the major problems in the Republican party.

But I always love political treatises that include scientific analysis as a bootstrap to support their political views. Robert Trivers recent book comes to mind, as does the odious/racist The Bell Curve. But I think I'll give Conservatives Without Conscience a look. Nothing wrong with a little psychoanalysis here and there.

[Ben]

Amazon.com: Conservatives Without Conscience: John W. Dean: Books

Just in case anyone's interested! Next on my reading list. A good nonpartisan treatise on the major problems in the Republican party.

But I always love political treatises that include scientific analysis as a bootstrap to support their political views. Robert Trivers recent book comes to mind, as does the odious/racist The Bell Curve. But I think I'll give Conservatives Without Conscience a look. Nothing wrong with a little psychoanalysis here and there.

There's another good book by the British writer Jon Ronson called The Psychopath Test. He interviews a CEO who might be a psychopath.... It's frightening because these are by all accounts the most powerful people in our society.
And, too, what character traits would an ideal CEO have to have? Well, a person who could layoff 10,000 working men and women and sleep soundly at night? A psychopath.
And if one examines the internal structure of a corporation -- how it is set up and functions -- it resembles a psychopath. This according to Dr. Robert Hare.

[jimbo1974]

The bloke is a spastic.

[Ben]

[robertlouis]

It's actually quite sad and a savage commentary on the available talent in the GOP that this shambling fool turned out to be the "safest" option they could put up against Obama.

Failure of nerve, because if they went by the rhetoric of their core support, Michele Bachmann would probably have been more representative.

Now how scary is THAT?

[Prospero]

The dirty players prepare to sidestep Romney to smear Obama.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/us...bama.html?_r=1

[fred41]

almost 50 yrs. ago in high school....I'm not in love with Romney but you guys gotta be kidding me.

[Prospero]

It's gonna get dirty. leaked superpac plan to attack Obama

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...-document.html

[Ben]