The Blue Fairy: “A boy who won’t be good might just as well be made of wood.”
While many children enjoyed the story of Pinocchio as a cautionary tale about responsibility and honesty, Mitt Romney apparently thought it was an educational documentary. He must’ve been bewildered why Pinocchio wanted to be human, related to the idea of a conscience being something that he didn’t have and was a pest and liked the idea of others pulling his strings as long as it meant he got to have what he wanted.
On numerous occasions, Romney has demonstrated that he has more in common with firewood than fired workers. Whether it’s obliviously torturing his dog by strapping him to the roof of his car, bragging about liking to fire people, casually betting $10,000 or mentioning that his wife has “a couple of Cadillacs” in a state where most people couldn’t afford even one, all that remains to confirm suspicions is for a woodpecker to perch on his block shaped head and begin pecking away.
Mitt Romney IS made out of wood. He speaks in a wooden way, he is as stiff as a plank when dressed in jeans, he doesn’t allow cigarettes or lit matches around him and is even physically attracted to wood, “The trees here are the right height!” (Sequoias, hide your children).
As the quote above says, there is no point in a bad person being human. If Romney had a Jiminy Cricket, he’d have sprayed it with (Corporate) Raid(er) and pink slipped The Blue Fairy. He does not want to be “a real boy”, he likes not having feelings or a heart, it makes life so much easier for those who just care about satisfying themselves. But as wooden as Romney is, he still isn’t Presidential timber.
The Blue Fairy: “A lie keeps growing and growing until it’s as plain as the nose on your face.”
Mitt Romney’s untiring capacity for lying is a defining trait. By not having a conscience, he has nothing to regulate him when speaking lies instead of truth, not even the weight of his enormously long and growing nose. The GOP seems to be like a cheerleader at the Slander Bowl, rooting for Romney to keep lying and gain more yardage with each one. There only seems to be a lazy pretense at Romney’s lies not being lies, it’s just part of the game to lie and get the public to buy into them so he can win the race. And at least in the GOP primary, Romney seems to have won…by a very long nose.
The Coachman: Give a bad boy enough rope, and he’ll soon make a jackass of himself.
In the story of Pinocchio, he goes to Pleasure Island which is run by greedy men who lure in the naive with promises of giving them everything they want but in the end, turn them into working slaves of the wealthy. For Romney, this wasn’t evil, it was a reasonable career choice.
As part of the process of turning him into fodder for the wealthy, the wooden boy is turned into a jackass. One thing we can say about Romney is that when it comes to stories he likes, he’s a purist.
If the Disney version of the Pinocchio story was told without Jiminy Cricket and Geppetto and after transforming into a jackass, Pinocchio won the GOP nomination for the presidency, the parallels would be almost identical. In this updated version, Pinocchio would seek to remain wooden and oppose universal healthcare but allow tax credits for sandpaper and lacquer. He would be just fine with the Koch Brothers or whomever pulling his strings as long as he gets to perform on the biggest stage.
And how would the signature song change?
When you wish upon a lie,
Makes no difference how or why.
Everything your heart desires,
Trickles down to you.If your lie is just a scheme,
No agenda’s too extreme.
When you wish upon a lie,
As schemers do.Lies are kind,
They bring to those who love them
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing.Like a dog bolted on the roof,
Lies stand up and see you through.
When you wish upon a lie
As schemers do.
So, whether or not Romney is swallowed by a whale of a lie or ends up a jackass for abandoning his conscience, he’ll always be Romnocchio to me.
Pretty good summary of how Romney’s lies and never changing positions hurt him politically on all sides.
http://xpostfactoid.blogspot.com/2012/04/gop-conjures-up-candidate.html
All pols who are running for president have to do this parlor trick of stumping to the base while appealing to the center. In fact Obama has probably done this better than any pol since St. Ronnie. Don’t forget what a centrist campaign even W ran in 2000 against Gore even though anyone who knew his history knew it was a charade.
Romney started out in politics as such a moderate that his own base does not trust him so he turned so far right that moderates now feel betrayed. In a way part of it is not even Romney’s fault because he had to shake the Etch-a-Sketch and rewrite his positions so much to appeal to an ultra-right wing base that doing the normal tact to the center that presidential candidates do will just confirm the mistrust everyone has in him.
KQ – There is a token “white lie” in running for President that is the Primary Candidate vs. Himself in a GE but I think Obama proved that one need not betray the base to appeal to the general public.
ROmney will prove the rule by flipping 180 degrees from this point forward and for someone as untrustworthy as he’s proven to be, I think it will be more toxic to his candidacy than any in recent memory.
He will confirm Dem and Bagger suspicions and lock in the perception of him as a liar.
Works for me!
I ask you, who would vote for anyone for President if they pulled this stunt? Can you imagine if PBO did this? He would be impeached!
Romney using ethics exception to limit disclosure of Bain holdings
Much more at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-using-ethics-exception-to-limit-disclosure-of-bain-holdings/2012/04/05/gIQARcVmxS_story.html?tid=pm_politics_pop
I asked the other day if he had any oil interests in his holdings, I guess. Who would vote for him when you don’t know where his interests lie? Are they in China, India, Russia, hell they could be in Iran, we can’t tell.
This blows me away!
Bito, you are not alone. I can’t understand how people can actually think Mitt is better than our President. They must be ignorant.
Nirek, It’s amazing how many lies about President Obama are out there and how often the media lets them go unchallenged in their false quest of balance. Someone using facts and another using lies does not equal balance. On our twitter timeline you will see a tweet about about GOOP Senator calling for PBO to apologize for calling the Ryan “Path to Poverty” budget as “Social Darwinism” when he was quoting Newt’s words. And that’s how lies start.
I can’t believe that the news on Romney hiding his investments isn’t HUGE news. This is worse than Cheney and Haliburton, Romney’s are completely hidden. Is he invested in Russian oil and will that affect his decision making? How about Rayathon or some other MIC corporation? Will that make want to push a new missile system? Oil sands in Canada, Pipeline companies, oil shippers….. The list goes on and they are all secret and using a loophole to keep them that way?
Has any other president or candidate even tried this?
This has a WOW factor of 10 to me.
Nobody is worse than the evil one. Mitt is a close second though. As far as I’m concerned cheney is the most evil person on the planet.
I think the reelection of George Bush proves that the GOP doesn’t really concern themselves too much about the character and ability a president may have. They just want one of their own as a puppet, with the corporations and MIC pulling the strings.
Too true.
Ah-Ha! This finally hit MSNBC, the “liberal network,” and it took Rev. Al to do it! I just think this is major, unprecedented and close to a scam. Where do his interests lie? Will he be pushing for a new missile system and the public not knowing he has a lot invested in MIC corporations? Push for more oil pipelines while invested in tar sands in Canada? The list goes on and works very well with KQ’s excellent comment on Romneys lying IMHO.
Obama and the Dems had better hammer on this and the release of Romney’s tax returns for several more years so if he doesn’t release him, the doubts about his honesty and worry about his deceptiveness will only grow.
Why is it that the media lets these politicians lie and lie? They used to call them on their untruthful statements. Now they just let them hit all their talking points and never question their lies.
It’s the corporate way, allowing and encouraging the greatest amount of conflict by being a megaphone for whatever divisive propaganda is offered, all under the guise of “fair and balanced”.
Instead of acting as a guardian for the public, the media is now a conduit for the powerful and wealthy. Whatever BS they want to spew, the MSM happily projects and amplifies it to the public without attaching the labels of “true” or “false”…because of course informing the public that what they’re hearing is a lie would be partisan.
The concept seems to be, since Dems are often truthful and Repubs are often dishonest. calling the Repubs on lies would be partisan.
No wonder things have gotten crazier with the GOP and they can live in an alternate reality, the MSM validates it all.
Adlib
That was awesome. I had to tweet it before I even finished reading it. Bravo the analogy with the fairytale was perfect.
I cannot stand a liar and am constantly amazed at how the GOP and their followers can swallow lies and repeat them right to your face over and over. Even knowing that you know they are lying. That more than anything proves to me they have no values. They have no morals it is win at all costs. Then when they win they do not know what to do with it so they destroy it.
Where in the hell did this country go so wrong? And yes I mean them not us.
How flattering, Sue, thank you so much!
The GOP has been hollowed out by the greedy and racists, there are no genuine principles left in that party. So, all they have left is to come up with lies as reasons to NOT vote for Democrats.
All they have is hate and fear so they can only campaign on hate for “Obamacare”, racist and religious hatred for Obama, fear of Obama taking away guns and religion and fear of Obama being a Russian Muslim.
That’s all they’ve got.
And now that the GOP has ethically cleansed their party of moderates, what you have mostly are racists and the greed-crazed wealthy who are happy to regurgitate lies if it helps them bring down the black President who’s not a puppet of the wealthy.
I would have to also point the finger at the corporate MSM which through its mindless broadcasting of lies, doesn’t make it so that there is any sanction or penalty for lying. They think it’s being impartial to just report a lie and not criticize it as a lie. That’s the difference between being a propaganda tool and a journalist.
But I think the voters will reject this deepest descent into dishonesty in November. It’s so extreme now, I think most see the Repubs as the mercenary liars they are.
AdLib–Awesome analogy! And that song! As angry as the endless lies make me, there is something else he does–and the whole GOP does—that just makes me sputter. That Rovian tactic of accusing Obama of the exact thing they themselves do. Attacking Obama’s strengths as a weakness and accusing them of HIS weakness i.e., Obama is “out of touch.” Makes me livid. I don’t think it’ll work in the general, but there is something so disgusting with this tactic. Beyond cynical!
Hey Cher, very kind of you!
Just remember what I mentioned before, every time a bell rings in your head about what a lying hypocrite a Republican in, an indie gets his Obama button.
It is very cynical and really underestimating the intelligence of the Indie voters…who this crap is aimed at. They may not be brilliant but they do know that if the GOP says “No, Obama, Romney is black and you’re white,” that they are full of crap.
The lies are no so simple and obvious. Is man who is bi-racial and whose mother had to rely on food stamps at one point out of touch or is the son of a millionaire who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and has always gotten pretty much everything he’s wanted, who has many homes and a car elevator, out of touch.
Yes, it is the standard Rove insanity but it’s just not working. Obama should be way behind right now and he’s kicking Romney’s ass in the polls. The public likes Obama and they don’t like the phony millionaire who they know is bullshitting them.
I know that the pudnuts insist that Obama will lose if the economy slows down or unemployment doesn’t fall but I think they’re dopes.
In the end, people are going to decide, “Do I like Romney better than Obama and do I think he’s really going to make things better for me?”
And the answer from the majority of the 99% will be no, Obama will be re-elected, in part because Romney and the GOP will keep reminding them of what lying weasels they and Romney are.
And who wants to elect a weasel to the White House…other than Republicans, that is?
My favorite is Romney’s attacks that Obama went to Harvard. FFS Romney not only went to Harvard he went longer than Obama to get two advanced degrees.
This is what Romney said today.
The other day he did something close to that. When he was giving his life story, “I was born a poor black boy in a log cabin…” He never mentioned that he went to Harvard, he said “then after I finished business school….” What like he went to a storefront school and took bookkeeping, shorthand and speed typing?
Another thing in his life story that has me shaking my head and that has to do with his father. He always says my Dad started out as a lather in the carpenters union, (and here’s the jump) them he bought a auto manufacturer company. From dry-waller to a car manufacturer? I have worked with many dry-wallers (we had a sub-local as part of our local) and I never new a one that went from rags to riches like that. There is something missing IMHO.
Here’s a bit from Wikipedia that blows up Mitt’s BS description of his father. In fact, George Romney used high level connections through his soon-to-be-wife’s father to become an aide in DC and then…a lobbyist!!! Yep, George Romney was a Washington insider!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney#Early_career
Why haven’t I heard this about George Romney’s background from Mitt? Hmm…sure hope we hear a lot more about it from the Dems now that Mitt’s trying to lie about it.
AdLib, do you mean to tell me that the part of one day George just dropped his drywall tools and then bought a car company aren’t true? Is there a thing, just one thing that Mitt tells the truth about? He tries to make it sound like Daddy, in his heart, was just a blue collar. middle class fellow. Being a lobbyist for a large corporation is not my idea of a blue-collar worker.
My Gawd, it’s not he is lying on his profile on facebook trying to pick up chicks, he’s running for “the leader of the free world!” If he gets elected and is speaking with some foreign leader, trying to make a deal, is that foreign leader going to be thinking all the time “Is he lying to me?” or “I don’t know if he is telling me the truth.”
Ha! Rmoney talking about living in the “real world?” The guy was born rich. Rmoney has no capacity at all for relating to the middle class and poor. None, zero, zip, zilch!
KT, you said it better than I did. Talk about “out of touch”, Mittens is way out of touch!
Nirek, the majority of Rmoney’s gaffes while campaigning are when he tries to relate to the middle class and working poor. Those attempts are clumsy, half hearted and very transparent.
He seems to be obsessed with money and those like him who make millions, on the backs of the working poor and middle class.
The Rove reversal strategy only works if it’s not so outrageously laughable, then it backfires.
In this case, Romney looks like a moronic child chanting, “I know you are but what am I?”
And no one wants a moronic, lying child as President.
KQ, I say Romney never did a real days work in his life. He got handed a fortune from daddy and has let his money make more money for him. A day of real work would kill him.
Agree 100%.
Adlib, Mitt would rather lie even when the truth would serve him better. Is that pathological ???
Nirek, i’m thinking that Rmoney has lied so much throughout his life, that he just does it automatically now. Surely he shows no moral regrets about it.
I loved the song too.
Fortunately you need credibility or such attacks and Romney’s is shot. Not even the base of the GOP really even believes Romney. Sure they love attacks on Obama but they are quite hollow.
The GOP is in the unenviable position of having to hold their collective noses and pick a pol they really don’t like. To them he’s more MA liberal like Kerry. Sure they will never outwardly say this but inside they don’t trust Romney as little as Dems do.
Perfect, AdLib just perfect! KQ and I were both remarking this morning that it’s not just the occasional lie, it’s constant and we have never heard a so many lies from one person running for president. I have been around politics most of my life my father was an elected official when I was tyke and never has anyone told this amount of lies. Do you think he has a staff member whose only job is to keep track of his lies so the campaign can try to keep it straight? Or does it even matter to them?
When I was a child I would get a wooden spoon on my bottom for calling someone a liar, I think my mother would forgive me this time and use it herself!
From Cher via twitter:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/14/1074486/-EVERY-Romney-Lie-In-One-Place-UPDATED-
Just in case you have any doubts on AdLibs post. I’m not sure if the author or anyone can keep track of EVERY lie.
Bito, thanks to you and other Planeteers, that Tweet got 100’s of ReTweets. I wanted it to go viral until the MSM finally pays attention.
Cher I also tweeted the individual one after you gave it to me. I actually got kicked off for a few hours because I had reached a limit?
Sue, I don’t know what that “reached a limit” thing is all about, I get it one in a while. just try refreshing the page or log off and back on again.
Bito well I had posted at least 99 facts about Romney and I always rt yours and others plus i regularly RT my post for Sierra Lamar the young girl who is missing from Morgen Hill near San Jose. You never know just like people did for Trayvon it got noticed. Twitter is way better for that than FB
http://thinkprogress.org/romney-facts/?mobile=nc
These are the 99 facts I was tweeting between Lies and facts you can bombard twitter day after day.
For some reason Sean Hannity followed me, I am thinking about blocking that sumbitch
Very nice but what an endless job! Will bookmark the link!
Thanks so much Bito!
I read your exchange with KQ while I was writing this article and was pleased to see we were all on the same page today!
I think it is a perfect storm for lying with Romney, which is why he seems to be more prolific at it than any candidate I can think of.
You have an unprincipled brat who’s used to saying whatever it takes to get what he wants, a Republican core that insists on people lying to it about Obama and economics and a corporate MSM that happily acts as a megaphone for lies instead of blocking them from gaining traction.
However, I think Romney has grown overconfident about his lying because he has rarely been challenged on his lies in the debates and by the media…partially because he won’t do interviews with legit news people (which leaves out everyone at Fox News).
Once the Obama campaign machine is in full gear and once Romney has to have debates with Romney, I think the meme of Romney as a total lying weasel will be public knowledge and along with his support for the War on Women, will help to defeat him.
I would also suggest that Romney’s upside-down likeability numbers are a reflection of many in the public already being aware of him being a bullshitter. And when he Etch-a-Sketches back to the middle, he will underscore his dishonesty and hurt himself even further.
When the GE kicks in fully, I think the oblivious Romney is in for a surprise, Americans really don’t like blatant liars.
I think it’s almost impossible to turn favorable numbers like Willard’s around. Even past GOP loser like McCain and Dole have favorable ratings in the positive range over 50%. Remember favorable is just how ‘likable’ a candidate is, it’s not even like a performance rating which makes it more damning for Romney. We sometimes forget that millions of people don’t vote party, ideology or even on the issues they vote for the candidate they like most. We all know the president’s ceiling likability number is in the high 60’s due to polls in his early presidency and I don’t think Romney will get close to 50 again, especially with women.
Dems have typically held an advantage with the women’s vote but never in numbers like this.
I agree, the best Romney could do, and I see him doing worse than that, is minimize the advantage to where it’s still bigger than usual but not so much.
The figures I heard (but haven’t confirmed) are that in order to win, a Repub would need at least 33% of the women’s vote. Romney’s below 20%. If he’s lucky, maybe he gets close to 30% but I feel pretty confident that with his high unlikeables, he doesn’t have the tools to fully reverse the damage.
Aw…
Combine the women’s vote with the Hispanic vote, the way they are polling right now, he’s got a couple of holes to fill. For a completely un-scientific observation, one of the Tea Party people said at their gatherings, close to 25% of them won’t vote for Mitt, that makes two TP groups that are saying that.
The GOP has alienated women, poor, gays, and intelligent people.
Bito, why don’t reporters call him on the lies? They let him babble , but never call him on his lies , falsehoods, and misrepresentations.
Absolutely wonderful! I had just remarked last night that Mitt moves all of a piece. He doesn’t turn his head – he turns his whole body. It’s very odd to watch, especially with the sound off. He’s the most rigid person maybe ever. McCain was much the same but for injuries sustained as a POW. One could admire him for that; he’d gone through hell and come back again.
Mitt’s are injuries that come from being – what? Well, you’ve explained it. He’s a block of wood. This is a man whose entire being as a liar has turned him into a tree stump. He cannot relax and “be himself” because he already IS. How can you be a person when you’re rootbound from trying to keep track of the lies? His body language gives the game away – he’s holding himself in check with every fiber of his existence so he can keep track of what he’s saying where.
When I saw your photo of him with the nose, it did not, at first, strike me odd. And how odd is THAT? You’ve nailed the man’s entire existence as a wooden prevaricator who has not a scrap of human feeling. Not for him becoming a real boy. Too late for that. What lies ahead for him will be a life afraid of termites, root rot, forest fires, and woodpeckers. Mitt the Block of Wood. Wanting to be president and no clue how to be honorable enough to achieve it.
Romnocchio indeed. GREAT story, AdLib. Thanks for letting us understand what we are seeing!
Choicelady, you are so kind! Thank you!
Great minds think alike…and so do you and I! 😉
It is fascinating that someone can physically so much resemble himself emotionally. Romney has such an inflexible mind when it comes to having no core values and is accordingly just as stiff in the way he moves.
Yes, he could be called flexible for how he flip flops but if one looks at the bigger picture, that his inflexible position is, “I will lie and say or do anything to get what I want,” maybe he isn’t really so flexible.
It was amazingly quick and easy to Photoshop Romney with a Pinocchio nose, it was almost instantly a perfect fit.
And the odd thing is, I swear it has gotten longer since I first posted this article!
Ad, fabulous piece of work! I would argue that Romney is the perfectly engineered candidate for the new GOP. The dogma for the GOP has narrowed so significantly only a contortionist like Romney can slip
through the opening to the nomination. He is as critical for the next phase of the GOP as the President is for the next phase of the Democratic Party. He is comfortable lying. He is comfortable taking multiple positions on the same issue. He is comfortable being whatever he has to be to get the job done. The powers that be in the party recognize and appreciate this sociopathic slipperiness and value it. In a party that has moved 100% to tactical strategy and away from functional policy, Romney is the template for the new, better, colder, Republican. Consider him the beta test for the upcoming product line.
Thanks so much Funk!
I would actually propose that Romney is a factory reject of a GOP candidate, like the perfect looking Ken Doll whose recordings that play when you pull the string are all messed up.
And he only won the nomination by not pulling that string as much as the really messed up factory rejects that he’s done better than. Oh and his being the wealthiest one in the race with the wealthiest friends can’t be overlooked either. Romney bought this nomination by using millions to destroy his competition who didn’t have enough money to compete against his attacks.
Romney has won by default, not by being a winner but by letting the GOP base decide that all the others were total losers. So Romney is the least total loser.
I do agree though that the GOP Elite have always drooled over Romney because of how conscience-free Romney is about dishing out the lies they want smeared all over the media. As long as the back of his head is a megaphone for their lies, they are giddy. But when Romnocchio starts to think that he is a real man and can talk for himself, they panic.
You are indeed correct. I think Romney is the only candidate for the GOP now. The main principles of the GOP is hypocrisy and nihilism. Like you said all that matters for them is winning and they have no policy they won’t flip flop. The individual mandate is the primary example. The fact is every time the GOP gets in office they expand government both in role and in real terms. They cannot call themselves fiscal conservatives with their ridiculous no tax orthodoxy. They simple use rationalizations to take any position they need to at the time.
Thanks AdLib, this was wonderful and really added to my otherwise boring morning’s pleasure. By the time of the GE, Mitt will of course be housebound, or he might need to hire the length of a whole freight train of containers to get out of one of his mansions. Maybe the nice corporation “people” can form an arm link chain to bounce him along to where he needs to lie next. Or some sympathetic loggers can float him downstream on his back to his next liefest.
Great song lyrics. 😀
Cheers Kalima, thanks for the very kind words!
In fact, by the time the GE is over, we could probably use Romney’s nose to physically mark the entire equator.
Kudos AdLib. Very funny stuff. I think Rmoney needs that long slender nose. It makes it that much easier to stick it in all those corporate assholes!
Thanks Killgore! Yes, thanks to that, they are now known as the K-OH!och brothers.
Bravo! One of Your Best
Heh! Thanks so much KQ!
BTW, I conked my head on my keyboard when I bowed.
Ok, I’ll admit it, I’m absolutely green with envy about your moving Orson Welles thingy here. In the 5 years I have been blogging, the only things moving for me are actual video clips, and then not all the time. No need to try to explain it to me, I won’t understand a word you write. I shall proudly live out the rest of my blogging days being known as a technofart. 😀
Really I just searched for clapping and animated gif.
This is another classic out there.
KQ I love ir