A Pattern of Behavior

First of all, congratulations to Miley Cyrus on her engagement.  She’s marrying Liam Hemsworth, who starred in the Hunger Games.  She’s 19, he’s 22.  It’s crazy young, but what the heck.  If they wind up divorced after a year, they’re both still young, rich and good looking.  And who knows?  Maybe they’ll beat the odds.  I wish them both success and happiness.

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I would also like to congratulate Dania Londono Suarez on her new TV career.  You remember Dania Londono Suarez.  She was the hooker in the Cartagena Caper, the big Secret Service Sleepover Saga that happened just before Obama’s trip to Colombia.  Personally, I think she should have gone with porn, she had some pretty lucrative offers and she’s only famous for being a hooker, but it’s her life and more power to her.

But mostly what I want to talk about tonight is the fact that Mitt Romney, in prep school, liked to dress up like a state trooper, put a flashing red light on the top of his Rambler and pull people over.  He bragged about it to some kids at college and they were all like, ewwww, what a creep.  I don’t think that will hurt him much, nor the fact, also revealed today, that his California neighbors think he’s kind of a dick as a neighbor, the guy who goes down to the beach and yells at all the kids for smoking pot and drinking beer, which kids have been doing as long as there have been beaches, and beer, and pot.

I do think, however, that it is indicative of a pattern of behavior.  Therefore, I think it’s time we recapped a bit.  First, in prep school he was a serious jerk.  Him and his buddies held a long haired kid down and chopped his hair off.  Everybody else involved in the incident has shown some remorse.  Mitt Romney just doesn’t remember it.  That’s a sign of psychopathology, right there.  Then, dressing up like a state trooper.  Then, as a “Young Republican,” being an active supporter of the Viet Nam war, even though he got out of the draft by going on the Mormon Mission thingie, to Paris, where he stood on street corners for a year accosting total strangers to yammer at them about his crazy-ass religion and try to convince them not to drink wine or smoke cigarettes.  Founded Bain Capital, a company dedicated to making Mitt and his partners boatloads of money by buying up companies, selling off their assets, firing a whole bunch of people, and then either selling them or declaring bankruptcy.  Tied his dog, Seamus, to the roof of his car and took off for Canada,  literally scaring the shit out of the poor animal.  Was a mediocre governor of Massachusetts, for one term.  Destroyed a bunch of records on the way out the door.  Has bank accounts in Switzerland and the  Cayman Islands, and pays a piddling amount in taxes.

Yup.  There’s a pattern of behavior there, all right.  A pattern of being an overprivileged, insensitive, greedy, power-mongering asshole.