Mitt Romney Madness: Florida Edition (VIDEO)

The apparent madness that gripped Mitt Romney first in New Hampshire and then in South Carolina has followed the former Massachusetts governor to the Sunshine State, where this past week the four remaining Republican presidential primary contenders participated in two debates ahead of Tuesday's crucial primary.

The condition, known by doctors at this point simply as "Mitt Romney Madness," seems to be connected to the candidate's increasingly strenuous efforts to win his party's nomination for president of the United States. It is uncertain whether it is at all related to the "dancing plague" of Renaissance-era Europe. While previous symptoms -- aphasia, auditory and visual hallucinations -- remained present, Romney displayed several new symptoms at Thursday night's debate in Jacksonville, including severe mood swings, megalomania, and gerontophobia, fear of the elderly.

Romney was able to overcome his condition to win the New Hampshire primary, but it was a different story in South Carolina, where his continued descent before debate audiences into the gaping maw of mania clearly contributed to his defeat at the hands of Newt Gingrich.

 

 

Comments

[Patriot86]

08:00 AM on 01/30/2012

Romney is the poster boy for WHO SHOULD NEVER be president...rich guy that fired people for a living who doesn't believe in this country or support this country as evidenced by his foreign bank accounts...no doubt more to come on that front....he is a sociopath who was bailed out by the Feds long before the 2008 Bush financial debacle.

[aFtersootdamP]

04:17 AM on 01/30/2012

More hate mongering from an obama shill. The obama regime has no accomplishments to run on so they must rely on hate and class warfare. obama believes wealth creates poverty and only the government can turn it around. Even though Greece proves the opposite. destroying wealth creates poverty.

[kathy smelser]

06:58 AM on 01/30/2012

i think that the Dancing Plague has found another victim

[flossophy]

10:36 AM on 01/30/2012

Since Romney can't run on his record... all he can do to compete is outspend Newt 5-to-1 with millions on negative misIeading ads. 

This strategy won't work with Obama... and Romney has not demonstrated the ability that he could win. 

Obama is a far more skiIIed campaigner than this empty suit ph0ny.

[skwan91607]

02:43 AM on 01/30/2012

FLORIDA VOTERS SHOULD NOT VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY. WHY /
1/- Romney is not trustworthy. SC voters showed already to Mitt that Money could not give him votes The purpose of candidacy is more than a MONEY CANDIDATE.
2/- Mitt Romney's Mormon church back ground is his guidance on every his decision that is surely a hidden NIGHTMARE to the making of American Foreign Policy.
This is an important message American voters as well Florida voters must send out and vote Mitt Romney down.
P.S. I have nothing to against Mormon church. Religious teaching plays a vital role on decision making. Particularly, Mitt Romney's family background as class of authority in Mormon. I am not attacking Mitt. Just bring out something it is missing in this discussion

[rpeterson2205]

10:54 PM on 01/29/2012

This video sucks.

[zelda777]

10:34 PM on 01/29/2012

Surprise, surprise. All the GOTP candidates have been crazy except for Hunstman, and he didn't appeal to the conservatives. He wasn't crazy enough. It's pitiful that people of this ilk are actually running for president of the USA.

[rdk70816]

09:15 PM on 01/29/2012

The author of this hit piece needs to pay better attention to what is going on. Mitt Romney's skills as a campaigner and charismatic leader have become more evident recently as he has settled into a comfort zone. His absolute brilliance have always been evident; although, I doubt the author could have perceived that.

[ropadopa]

10:01 PM on 01/29/2012

Skill as a campaigner? Are you kidding me? The man lost 4 of the 5 races he ran, he should have gotten the basics by now and still he struggles to connect. I say thank god for PACs or he would have been through already.

[rdk70816]

10:29 PM on 01/29/2012

Attend one of his rallies. He connects. Abe Lincoln lost a few elections also, in his day.

[Patriot86]

08:02 AM on 01/30/2012

hahah...charasmatic and Romney...hahah

[rdk70816]

10:53 AM on 01/30/2012

Have you attended one of his rallys?

[PrairieGayCompanion]

05:23 PM on 01/29/2012

I do not support any of these clowns, but I have to ask, is this supposed to be an opinion piece or a story? While any story about Newt's descent into madness is backed up by legitimate psychological profiles and interviews, Craw, calling himself a "reporter" just makes broad statements without any facts, and is not actually reporting on anything.

[BCubedReg]

06:16 PM on 01/29/2012

I think this was supposed to be taken as comedy, fiction imitating truth (or vice versa)... so to speak.

[misskat]

05:17 PM on 01/29/2012

How will President Obama defeat Mitt?
Mitt will defeat Mitt.
He has no sense of humor, no grace. Watch him, he's wooden, his face when he smiles seems to be a grimace not a grin.
All the money in the world won't make him likable.

[iam99]

09:49 PM on 01/29/2012

Megalomaniacs on the world stage represent a bad history.

[Patriot86]

08:04 AM on 01/30/2012

Exactly, there is noting Mitt would not do to get power and nothing he would not do once he achieved the presidency to keep power...very dangerous man.

[mrhandyman3105]

05:04 PM on 01/29/2012

Romney reminds me of the cult leader "Jim Jones", who after getting all those people to follow him talked them into committing mass suicide.

[Kalikat]

04:02 PM on 01/29/2012

And if anyone agrees with him, I think they are the ones who are really on the edge of madness.

[TBrennan]

12:53 PM on 01/29/2012

As a mormon he has been trained and conditioned to rationalize absolutely anything in the world that suits his needs. That's why it is so easy for him to flip-flop. He would be the presidential equivalent of a bowl of lime green Jello (with little marshmellows inside).

[Sabrae]

03:17 PM on 01/29/2012

I agree completely.

I also have to say that if God wanted marshmallows suspended, he would have filled them with helium. :D

[yauxeybalba]

12:42 PM on 01/29/2012

"LDS Church membership was made up predominantly of liberal-leaning Democrats until the early 1900s, possibly due to anti-Mormon positions held by the Republican party during the latter half of the 19th Century. However, the church's conservative positions on issues such as civil rights, sexuality, drug use, traditional family values, and the role of religion in government caused large numbers of previously Democratic Latter-day Saints to shift to the Republican Party by the late 1970s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s the LDS church took a stand against the Equal Rights Amendment, and again increased the population's participation in the Republican party. At that time, many members who were registered Democrats were called "Jack Mormons", not as a negative term, but to distinguish them as traditional liberal Democrats.""
In running for president, this fundamental dichotomy is responsible for prolonged attacks of cognitive dissonance induced by being at once a MA Liberal and and Elephant-shaped Republican Conservative or donkeyjackophant as we say in the consulting biz

[Kalikat]

04:03 PM on 01/29/2012

he he he ha haha leave it up to a tea bag to think of all those things.

[yauxeybalba]

04:42 PM on 01/29/2012

That's wikip stuff(check jack mormons),I claim no fame and drink only Chinese tea, no bags please, bag heads either although they can be hysterical at times..

[madcityy]

12:10 PM on 01/29/2012

I HAVE HAD IT FOR A WHILE....HE IS MIDDLE OF THE ROAD........AND SMARTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

[TBrennan]

12:57 PM on 01/29/2012

Mr. Madison, if you think Romney is middle of the road you probably think Walker reflects well on WI.

[Kalikat]

04:04 PM on 01/29/2012

That is what they joined this blog for, to try to convince us that the republcans are sensible and sane. Has anybody gone over to their side. Nope I didn't think so.

[Rowwdy]

12:08 PM on 01/29/2012

*While previous symptoms -- aphasia, auditory and visual hallucinations -- remained present, Romney displayed several new symptoms at Thursday night's debate in Jacksonville, including severe mood swings, megalomania, and gerontophobia, fear of the elderly.

As an elder, the Republican Party should have the fear of 53 million seniors calling them on their agenda, cutting our healthcare and S.S., just try it Teapublicans and we will become the worse nightmare you have ever had…

[spinnerator]

12:48 PM on 01/29/2012

Don't forget, and growing by 10,000 retirees a day!!

[LeFlaneur]

10:49 AM on 01/29/2012

Mitt Romney has all the symptoms of a rich kid used to everything always going his way. When he loses control of events and winds up on the losing side of an issue, it's as though some natural law has just been broken. You can watch it in his face as his entire universe collapses.

[soundog]

11:21 AM on 01/29/2012

Back before the French Revolution, the kings , like Romney today called it their "Divine Right".

[Sabrae]

03:22 PM on 01/29/2012

Funny you should mention that. His religions states he will be a god.

Now look up White Horse Prophesy.

[paulabflat]

12:33 PM on 01/29/2012

so. i wasn't the only one who noticed this.

whew!