Romney's Problem Isn't What He Says But What He Believes

As David Brooks points out in the New York Times, Mitt Romney has a profoundly flawed belief system.   He has a feeble knowledge of the country, its people, its culture.   He doesn't "get" the American social compact.

Mitt Romney is an astonishingly shallow man.   His ill-considered candor has already alienated Moscow and the Muslim world to boot without achieving any offsetting benefit for Romney, much less for his country.

He's written off 47 per cent of the American public, dismissing them as parasites.   He wants to govern for the others, the truly advantaged Americans.

The video released by Mother Jones reveals a candidate leveling with his well-heeled backers at a $50,000 a plate dinner.  He's telling them what he believes, what they also believe.   Should we be alarmed that Romney is an oligarch?  Why?

Romney is only following a path carved out of the forest of democracy by a corporatist Supreme Court and then paved with money from his wealthiest benefactors.   They have blazed Romney's trail.   They have charted his course.   He is their man.  They made him.   He is the intended instrument of their will.