9-12-12 - The Day Mitt Died?

Hopefully this is it for Mitt. Using an embassy press release designed to calm a tense situation that was released 6 hours before an event that Mitt used to criticize the president for apologizing to the perpetrators of murder... Unbelievable. Andrea Mitchell went half way - she said that the right wing talk barrage criticizing Mitt for being too weak influenced Mitt's decision to go all in on this one. The implication (which has been made many times before) is that Mitt will buckle under pressure and strike out to preserve his manhood. This has happened before. Do you remember the story about Mitt cutting the hair of a gay classmate? Just one of the many reports on that story: http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/05/10/mitt_romney_hassled_gay_classmate_over_dyed_hair.html In the Slate article this paragraph appeared: "The story of Romney's temper has only made cartoonish cameos in the presidential campaign. There's been exponentially more attention paid to the Seamus story, for example, than to Alec McGillis's long read on the Romney mood . The Horowitz/Real Romney portrait allows that the candidate grew up and out of this eventually; being an asshole was his version of George W. Bush's drinking, possibly. McGillis's Romney, once he attained his own money and power, acted out in new and exciting ways." It should be concluded that fundamentally Mitt Romney's psychology has not changed. He still needs to bolster a clearly weakened ego structure, but he does it aggressively with little thought to the consequences of his actions... The analogy to GWB in the above paragraph is remarkable. That is that this personality structure lends itself to impulse control difficulties and poor judgment. I know its hard to label Mitt as having impulse control difficulties --- but the fact is that under these specific conditions (being criticized or threatened)he will act out. Ultimately revealing this underlying problem and resulting in self-sabotage. (In the hair cutting case Mitt was saved by his status - Dad the Governor). Who will save him now? Rush (Nah Rush hates him), Weekly Standard (Nah - they hate him too), Krauthammer? Brooks? Fox News? - We'll wait to see Andrea Mitchell could have connected the dots...