It was stunning. As I mentioned last night, I had to shut the sound off. I tuned in later only a little bit during the live telecast and just happened to catch the Libya question:
But not even I expected Romney to let his entitled, Lord-of-the-Manor freak flag fly as proudly as he did on Tuesday night. He got in the president's face. He got in Crowley's face. That moment when he was hectoring the president about the president's pension made him look like someone to whom the valet has brought the wrong Mercedes.
"You'll get your chance in a moment. I'm still speaking."
Wow. To me, this was a revelatory, epochal moment. It was a look at the real Willard Romney, the Bain cutthroat who could get rich ruining lives and not lose a moment's sleep. But those people are merely the anonymous Help. The guy he was speaking to on Tuesday night is a man of considerable international influence. Outside of street protestors, and that Iraqi guy who threw a shoe at George W. Bush, I have never seen a more lucid example of manifest public disrespect for a sitting president than the hair-curling contempt with which Romney invested those words. (I've certainly never seen one from another candidate.) He's lucky Barack Obama prizes cool over everything else. LBJ would have taken out his heart with a pair of salad tongs and Harry Truman would have bitten off his nose.
It was totally shocking. I think this is actually part of Mitt's real personality. He has absolutely no use for anybody who is not in his social class. Not even Obama's tendency to be an elitist snob is good enough for Mitt. Obama didn't play the snob last night and wouldn't have been a match for a real snob anyway.
I'd hate to work for Mitt.
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